Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of covering anything with silver, or with a bright-shining white surface like that of silver; also, a sensitizing with a salt of silver, as in photography.
- noun Silver or plating laid on any surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Metal.) The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
silver . - noun The process of
coating a surface with a thin layer ofsilver (or a similar metal), especially so as to form amirror
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Examples
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Rated voltage, power rating in watt and/or luminous flux in lumen, type of base and bulb and/or special wishes such as silvering, colour or ornament glass.
5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991
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The tinning or "silvering" process is next in order.
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The undersigned begs to intimate that he has just received an assortment of Plate-glass and material for silvering Looking-glasses.
Bark! Bark! Bark! 2009
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The undersigned begs to intimate that he has just received an assortment of Plate-glass and material for silvering Looking-glasses.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The Rattler dropped anchor in Port Melbourne in January 1852, and it seems most likely that this was the origin of the shipment of glass and silvering material, and not the manufacturer.
Bark! Bark! Bark! 2009
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The Rattler dropped anchor in Port Melbourne in January 1852, and it seems most likely that this was the origin of the shipment of glass and silvering material, and not the manufacturer.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Here in the deepest, darkest corners, the roots are spreading, fine threads silvering the soil, a delicate macrame of pale tendrils and wet earth.
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"Half the battle is making sure that your base is not just silvering," said the art adviser Lowell Pettit of Pettit Art Partners.
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"Half the battle is making sure that your base is not just silvering," said the art adviser Lowell Pettit of Pettit Art Partners.
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When he takes the hat off it reveals the last of his trim silvering hair receding above the leathery corrugations of his forehead, and brushed precisely flat.
Michael Frayn: The day my life changed Michael Frayn 2010
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