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Meaning pearl meaning

What does pearl mean?
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pearl

A pearl is a round, white jewel that you get from inside of oysters. She bought a pearl necklace. A pearl is a kind of fish called the brill. A pearl is a light colored tern. Pearl is nacre or mother-of-pearl.

pearl

If you pearl something, you adorn it with pearls. If you pearl something, you make it into small, round grains, as with barley. If you pearl, you go hunting for pearls; you go pearling.

pearl

a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel (= bone) a shade of white the color of bleached bones gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean (= drop, bead) a shape that is spherical and small he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops beads of sweat on his forehead

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Conjugation pearl conjugation

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Simple sentences

It is merely an imitation pearl.
Good care should be taken of the pearl.
Hong Kong is referred to as the Pearl of Asia.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
It is true that he stole the pearl.
He stopped looking for the pearl.
She likes the beautiful pearl necklace very much.
I gave my sister a pearl necklace on her birthday.
He wants to buy a pearl necklace for his wife.
The Japanese destroyed Pearl Harbor.
She tried to persuade him to buy her a pearl necklace.
Tom says he doesn't know where Mary bought her pearl necklace.
Tom didn't think it would be appropriate for John to give Mary a pearl necklace.
My mother gave me a pearl necklace.
The jeweler mounted a big pearl in the brooch.
Tom broke into Mary's house and stole her pearl necklace.
Tom bought Mary a pearl necklace.
Tom bought a pearl necklace for Mary.

Movie subtitles

There is a spot in the lagoon, the richest in pearl beds of any in the South Seas.
We saw a girl running around with a big pearl necklace.
But underneath she's a pearl.
And a pearl, so I am told, is the result of a chronic irritation on an oyster.
Every pearl is matched and flawless.
You mean the one about the pearl necklace?
Have you any kind of a pearl necklace?
Now, Mr. Bradley, you see this pearl necklace?
I can't buy you any diamond clips or pearl necklaces.
Pearl necklace!
It is a pearl necklace that is separating us.
You heard about the big theft in Paris, the pearl necklace.
Now, Mr. Whatever-your-name-is, I want that pearl necklace.
We came to see you about the pearl necklace.
A pearl.
A pearl. No.
Not a pearl.
Lulu, I had a lovely pearl for you.
But at home I have a real pearl, a treasure, a jewel.
Lovely lady, this pearl grows yellow against the marble of your hand.
I'll wear my brown suit, pearl-gray tie and suede vest.
He found a pearl. that big.
Who got the pearl?
Pardon me, pearl, are you acquainted with Monstro, the whale?
I gotta think of Pearl.
Pearl's waiting up for me.
Pearl can't cook a steak like Billy Mandel.
I know how worried Pearl gets.
This is Pearl, Paul's wife.
Mine and Pearl's.
Pearl and me used to have them same conversations before we got married.
Wait, Pearl. Before you go in.
Yeah. Pearl's cooking a steak.
There are a lot of jobs you can handle. Hey, Pearl, medium-rare on my steak and not much butter on my potatoes.

News and current affairs

When it does - Pearl Harbor, September 2001 - all hell breaks loose.
Weaker countries sometimes attack when they feel backed into a corner, such as Japan did at Pearl Harbor or China did when it entered the Korean War in 1950.
But Koizumi is behaving in accordance with a deep-rooted tradition in Japan, one that long precedes the attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Indeed, from this point began the fatal rivalry between Japan and the US that culminated in Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which led the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew the battle flag flown by the Mikasa, Admiral Togo's ship when he attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.
The new China is symbolized by an electronics components factory in Shenzhen in the Pearl River (Zhu Jiang) Delta.
The Moscow Patriarch would likely become stuck in that needle's eye because of his pearl-encrusted chasubles, his gold and his Mercedes.
Imagine, say, the Japanese warplanes zeroing in on Pearl Harbor on December 7 th, 1941.
On September 11, 2001, a non-state network killed more Americans in a surprise attack than the government of Japan did at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Why Remember Pearl Harbor?
The decision to attack Pearl Harbor was reached after five months of deliberations that included numerous official conferences.
But Pearl Harbor was in no way inevitable.
Despite obvious differences between Pearl Harbor and recent Islamist terrorist tactics, they show the common desire of self-proclaimed Davids to topple their Goliaths in a clearly lop-sided battle.
Already, in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, where manufacturing activity is the densest, labor shortages have appeared.
The city of Shenzhen, in China's Pearl River Valley, has 2,350 EVs in its municipal fleet.
One draws an analogy with Pearl Harbor, Japan's attack on the US in 1941.
If they were separate nations, five of them--the Yangtze Delta, the Northeastern Tristates area (formerly known as Manchuria), the Pearl River Delta, the Beijing-Tianjin corridor, and Shandong--would rank among Asia's ten largest economies.
A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.
One person even told me that, because of those attacks, Japan had received a golden opportunity to clear its name of the stigma of Pearl Harbor.
In 2001, a non-state group killed more Americans than the government of Japan killed at Pearl Harbor.
More than 100,000 component manufacturers, mostly from Japan or Taiwan, have relocated to China's Pearl River and Yangtze River Delta regions, which always had cheap labor but now also have modern highways, port facilities, and communications links.
Given this alignment of forces, and the bloodshed that has already occurred in Manama's Pearl Square, the scenes from Cairo of protesters arm-in-arm with soldiers and hugging tank crews are unlikely to be replayed here.
NEW YORK - December 7 marks the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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