matting
ground
mask
mat
skin
jaggy
scraggy
jagged
bloom
haze
tooth
frost
pebbled
erasure
molding
photoblank
moulding
border
accidented
area
mirrorize
planum
mirror
semisheer
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resurface
tissue paper
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flatlay
tissue
flat file
graffiti
tabulate
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superface
texture
surfaced
facet
glacé
pinhole camera
evenly
lining
vitreous
regmaglypted
deposition
sheet
bumpiness
paved
tint block
rug
side
coating
camera obscura
coat
cosmetic
decal
thin
pleural
shagreened
card
dry plate
decalcomania
spirally
gray
plain paper
typing paper
computer paper
rugosimeter
dust
face
underneath
film out
slabby
nap
vacuole
surface
compact
amphiplatyan
profile
shadowy
bald
superficiary
layer
plate
tintype
sight
smooth over
tracing paper
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glaze
coated
flattening
watermark
denudate
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scraggy
jagged
pebbled
accidented
semisheer
surfaced
glacé
vitreous
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paved
thin
pleural
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amphiplatyan
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dry plate
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plain paper
typing paper
computer paper
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face
underneath
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layer
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tintype
sight
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graffiti
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surface
smooth over
noun
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- Terrain.
- The pit of a theatre.
- A soccer stadium.
- Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- The bottom of a body of water.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- Soil, earth.
- A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
verb
- To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- To place something on the ground.
- To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
adj
noun
- A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
- The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- A person wearing a mask.
- A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
- A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
- mesh
- The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- Mash.
- The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A social phenomenon where autistic people learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
- A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- A screen for a battery.
verb
- To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- To bewilder; confuse.
- To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
- To conceal or disguise one's autism.
- To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
- To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
- To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
- To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
- To mash.
- To disguise as something else.
- To cover or keep in check.
- To wear a mask.
- To be infused or steeped.
noun
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A floor pad to protect athletes.
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.
- A thickly tangled mess.
- An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
verb
noun
- an outer surface (usually thin)
- a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- body covering of a living animal
- a person's skin regarded as their life
- a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
- a person whose head is bald or shaved
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
verb
noun
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
- The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- Flowers.
- A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
verb
- To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
noun
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
verb
- To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
noun
- The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
- A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
verb
noun
- Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
- A particular geographic region.
- An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
- The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
- Genitals.
- A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
- Penalty box; penalty area.
noun
verb
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
adj
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not clear, muffled.
noun
noun
- A smooth circumscribed surface.
- The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
- One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
- Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
verb
noun
- The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
- The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
- The removal of someone from office.
- The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
- The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
- The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
- The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
noun
- any broad thin expanse or surface
- paper used for writing or printing
- bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
verb
noun
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- A sports team.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- Sidespin; english
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
adj
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- Far; distant.
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
verb
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
adv
noun
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
verb
verb
- To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
- To cause to become gray.
- To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
- To become gray.
adj
- Gray-haired.
- Old.
- Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
- Relating to older people.
- Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
- Dreary, gloomy.
noun
- An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
- An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
- A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
noun
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
verb
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
noun
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A cup, bowl.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
verb
adj
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Such that every open cover of the given set has a finite subcover. In a Euclidean space this is equivalent to a Closed and bounded set.
- Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose.
- Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space.
verb
- To form an agreement or contract.
- To make more dense; to compress.
- To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
noun
noun
- A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
verb
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- To draw in profile or outline.
noun
- An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- Plate armor.
- An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- A vehicle license plate.
- The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- A record, usually vinyl.
- A course at a meal.
- A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- Home plate.
- The contents of such a dish.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- A foot, from "plates of meat".
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A tectonic plate.
- An image or copy.
- Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- trauma plate.
- An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A material covered with such a layer.
- The anode of a vacuum tube.
- A roundel of silver or argent.
- Such dishes collectively.
- A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
verb
- To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- To arm or defend with metal plates.
- To beat into thin plates.
- To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- To score a run.
noun
- In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- The ability to see.
- Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- Something seen.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
verb
- To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
- To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
- To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
- To observe though, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
noun
- A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
- A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
- A smooth edible coating applied to food.
- A glazing oven; glost oven.
- The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See glaze (transitive verb).
- Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
verb
noun
- A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
- A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
- A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc.
- A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents.
verb
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