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adj
- containing flint
- Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- (geology) Siliceous (including basanite).
- (wine) Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
- (figuratively) Showing a lack of emotion.
noun
- A flint.
- a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire
- Iron pyrite, formerly used for striking fire.
- A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
- a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns
noun
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- Projectiles.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
adj
verb
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
verb
- (archaeology) To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
- (transitive) To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
- (transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
- alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance
- give retouches to (hair)
noun
noun
- A piece of metal struck against a flint or ferrocerium to produce sparks.
- A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
- A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
- A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
- (military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The batter.
- (firearms, military) A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
- (cricket) The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
- A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
- (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
- a forward on a soccer team
- someone who hits
- someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating
- the part of a mechanical device that strikes something
- an employee on strike against an employer
noun
- A manufacturing process using a mold.
- (countable) An object made in a mold.
- (programming) The act of converting between data types.
- The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
- The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
- (hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
- The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.^([W])
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- object formed by a mold
- the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie
verb
noun
- A waste product from working with metal.
- The impurities in metal.
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
noun
- Slag from a metal furnace.
- An ember.
- Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
verb
noun
- a charred substance
- A charred substance.
- any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
- a human female employed to do housework
- (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”).
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
verb
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
- (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
adj
noun
- A thick sheet of plastic.
- (organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
- A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin.
- (painting) A paint containing an acrylic resin.
- A painting executed using such a paint.
- a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives
- used especially by artists
- polymerized from acrylonitrile
- a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile
noun
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- (chiefly UK, sometimes capitalized) The children's game of British Bulldog or Red Rover.
- (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting
verb
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
- throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo
- attack viciously and ferociously
noun
- (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.
- (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
- (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
- the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal
- the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
- the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
noun
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
verb
noun
adj
noun
- enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips
- (metalwork) Objects decorated by this technique collectively.
- (metalwork, uncountable) A decorative technique for metalwork, especially brass, whereby colored enamel is baked in partitions (cloisons) between raised ridges of the metal.
noun
- Any corrosive substance.
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- A sour substance.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
adj
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- having the characteristics of an acid
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- being sour to the taste
noun
- A type of furnace used for smelting.
- (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
- (geometry) A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
- (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
- (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
- (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
- A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.
- a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting
- a roof in the form of a dome
adj
verb
noun
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
adj
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
verb
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
- turn blue
noun
- A flint.
- a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire
- Iron pyrite, formerly used for striking fire.
- A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
- a sandstone that withstands intense heat; used to line fireplaces and furnaces and kilns
noun
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- Projectiles.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
adj
verb
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- A piece of metal struck against a flint or ferrocerium to produce sparks.
- A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
- A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
- A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
- (military, slang) An officer's servant or orderly.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The batter.
- (firearms, military) A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
- (cricket) The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
- A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
- (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
- a forward on a soccer team
- someone who hits
- someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating
- the part of a mechanical device that strikes something
- an employee on strike against an employer
noun
- A manufacturing process using a mold.
- (countable) An object made in a mold.
- (programming) The act of converting between data types.
- The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
- The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
- (hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
- The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.^([W])
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- object formed by a mold
- the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie
verb
noun
- A waste product from working with metal.
- The impurities in metal.
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
noun
- Slag from a metal furnace.
- An ember.
- Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
verb
noun
- a charred substance
- A charred substance.
- any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus
- a human female employed to do housework
- (British) Alternative form of cha (“tea”).
- A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
- (colloquial) A character (being involved in the action of a story).
- (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
- An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
verb
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- burn to charcoal
- To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
- (ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.
- (transitive) To burn (something) slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
- To work or hew (stone, etc.)
- (transitive) To burn (something) severely, so as to blacken it.
noun
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- (chiefly UK, sometimes capitalized) The children's game of British Bulldog or Red Rover.
- (UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- (US, publishing) A bulldog edition.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- (professional wrestling) Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting
verb
- (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- (transitive) To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
- throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo
- attack viciously and ferociously
noun
- (archaeology) The outer surface of a piece of flint.
- (countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
- (uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
- the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal
- the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus
- the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
noun
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
verb
noun
noun
- Any corrosive substance.
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- A sour substance.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
adj
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- having the characteristics of an acid
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- being sour to the taste
noun
- A type of furnace used for smelting.
- (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
- (geometry) A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
- (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
- (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
- (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
- A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.
- a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting
- a roof in the form of a dome
noun
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
adj
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
verb
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
- turn blue
verb
- (archaeology) To modify a flint tool by making secondary flaking along the cutting edge.
- (transitive) To colour the roots of hair to match hair previously coloured.
- (transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.
- alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance
- give retouches to (hair)
noun
adj
- containing flint
- Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
- (geology) Siliceous (including basanite).
- (wine) Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
- (figuratively) Showing a lack of emotion.
adj
noun
- A thick sheet of plastic.
- (organic chemistry) An acrylic resin.
- A liquid coating system based on an acrylic resin.
- (painting) A paint containing an acrylic resin.
- A painting executed using such a paint.
- a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives
- used especially by artists
- polymerized from acrylonitrile
- a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile
adj
noun
- enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips
- (metalwork) Objects decorated by this technique collectively.
- (metalwork, uncountable) A decorative technique for metalwork, especially brass, whereby colored enamel is baked in partitions (cloisons) between raised ridges of the metal.