单词 | silvering |
释义 | silvering in American English (ˈsɪlvərɪŋ) noun 1. the act of covering with silver or a silvery substance 2. a coating of silver or a silvery substance 3. a silvery sheen or appearance silvering in American English (ˈsɪlvərɪŋ) noun 1. the act or process of coating with silver or a substance resembling silver 2. the coating thus applied the silvering of the mirror Word origin [1700–10; silver + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1700–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camera, cirrus, emphatic, envelope, hump-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”Examples of 'silvering' in a sentence |
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