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LUSTERING

Definitions: LUSTERING

LUSTERING

Noun

1. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.

2. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Lustre

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: LUSTERING

DomainDefinitions

Industry

Vapor finish which renders a permanent lustre and smooths the cloth surface. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LUSTERING

Language Translations for "LUSTERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

lustring (lustring), lustering (lustring). (various references)

   

French

  

lustring (lustring), lustering (lustring). (various references)

   

German

  

Lustring (lustring), Lustering (lustring). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λουστράρισμα (paintwork). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lustring (lustring), lustering (lustring). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usteringlay

   

Portuguese

  

lustring (lustring), lustering (lustring). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lustring (lustring), lustering (lustring). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LUSTERING

Derivations

Words ending with "LUSTERING": blustering, clustering, delustering, flustering. (additional references)

Words containing "LUSTERING": blusteringly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LUSTERING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: resulting.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: gruntles, insulter, lustring, ringlets, rustling, sterling, tinglers.

-2 letters: eluting, engluts, glisten, glister, gluiest, glutens, gristle, gruntle, gunites, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, ligures, lingers, linters, lungers, luniest, lustier, lusting, luteins, lutings, nutsier, resting, reusing, ringlet, ruliest, rulings, runlets, rusting, rutiles, singlet, slinger, stinger, tingler, tingles, triunes, trueing, ugliest, uniters, utensil.

-3 letters: elints, engirt, englut, enlist.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: blustering, clustering, disgruntle, flustering, granulites, lutestring, resaluting.

 

+2 letters: delustering, disgruntled, disgruntles, insurgently, lutestrings, neurologist, regulations, resculpting, spluttering, sulfureting, unsightlier.

 

+3 letters: angularities, blusteringly, centrifugals, neurologists, neutralising, numerologist, outwrestling, rightfulness, slaughtering, sulfuretting, triangulates, upholstering.

 

+4 letters: antireligious, deregulations, filibustering, flugelhornist, frightfulness, granularities, nightclubbers, numerologists, reregulations, restimulating, singularities, somersaulting, unrighteously, vertiginously.

 

+5 letters: antiguerrillas, degranulations, disgruntlement, flugelhornists, interreligious, neurobiologist, nonregulations, osmoregulation, reupholstering, rightfulnesses, sprightfulness, summersaulting, superelevating, superovulating, troublemakings, underclothings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LUSTERING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 55 53 54 45 52 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..-    ...    -    .    .-.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01010101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 0053 0054 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

465553543952434841

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Non-English Dictionaries with "LUSTERING"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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