a pearl of great price
pearl
verb[ I ]
uk /pɜːl/ us /pɝːl/
[ I ]
(of a liquid) to form small drops on a surface:
Sweat was pearling on her brow.
He quartered an orange with the knife and the juice on the blade pearled into droplets.
 be pearled with sth
(of a surface) to have small drops of liquid form on it:
The heavy dish cover was pearled around the edge with glistening drops.
She saw one of Annie's thin white arms, pearled with water, shoot into the sky as the boat righted itself.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drool
funnel
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
staunch
stem
swash
swill
swirl

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pearl | American Dictionary

pearl
noun[ C ]
us/ˈpɜrl/
a small, shiny, hard ball, usually white or blue-gray, that forms around a grain of sand inside some oyster shells and is valued as a jewel:
a string of pearls

Examples of pearl

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However, the necklace is on somebody's neck, so you cannot reverse the order of the pearls.
All pearls are refereed (including my own), and there is often a fair amount of polishing as a result of the reviewing stage.
Authors like writing pearls perhaps because they like responding to the opportunities and challenges provided by the format.
Worshippers likewise adorn themselves with strings of these pearls during the days of the rites, adding a special lustre to the crowd.
In the following pages you will find no less than three pearls for your enjoyment and instruction.
If fortunate, the shell would contain pearls; if not, it would brim with something far less desirable.
The second kind of pearls have a totally different origin.
The remains of the larva have been identified in the centre of sections of decalcified pearls.
The bibliographies of all included studies were manually searched for relevant references that may have been missed in the database search (pearling).
We expect to have pearls appear in subsequent issues of the journal.
The pearls are from all over the world, selected for the finest quality, smoothness and lustre.
In the text, all problems are evidently n- concretely dressed, dealing with elephants, peacocks, swans, pearls, etc.
As a result of these waves, fixed sporocysts had the appearance of strings of misshapen natural pearls.
In 1640 the council reprimanded serving-girls who had been wearing items reserved for the children of distinguished parents, such as pearls and decorated shoes.
You are holding a necklace in your hands, composed of no fewer than thirteen exquisite pearls.
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Collocations withpearl

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These are words often used in combination with pearl.

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black pearl
Hence, we propose the technique as a blackpearl.
freshwater pearl
Additional scientific and survey work is currently in progress to identify suitable sites for the otter, great crested newt, freshwater pearl mussel and fen moss.
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