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Definition: Gilding |
GildingNoun1. A coating of gold or of something that looks like gold. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gilding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Industry | Staining of textiles caused by oxidation of oil acquired or applied during processing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Art of covering substances, such as wood, with layers of gold leaf. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GildingSynonym: gilt (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Gilding, plating, ormolu, enamel, cloisonn_. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gilding |
| English words defined with "gilding": Blind tooling ♦ Deauration ♦ Electro-gilding ♦ Fire gilding, Fire gilt, Flatting ♦ Gilding metal, gold leaf ♦ Inauration, Infilm ♦ mosaic gold ♦ tambac, tombac, tombak ♦ Wash gilding, Water gilding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gilding": GINGERBREAD WORK ♦ Rococo Jewellery. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gilding": Oriel. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Beneath the gilding of the sky I catch a glimpse of a poor universe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Gilding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 61.76% of the time. "Gilding" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 61.76% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.47% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gilding" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gilding | Last name | 130 | 63,836 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "gilding": Fire gilding ♦ Gilding metal ♦ wash gilding ♦ water gilding. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "gilding": Electro-gilding, fire-gilding, hang-gilding, leaf-gilding, lily-gilding, mercury-gilding, over-gilding, water-gilding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gilding | 60 |
gilding supply | 38 |
gold leaf gilding | 12 |
gilding horse | 6 |
water gilding | 6 |
architectual decorating gilding | 6 |
b b b b b b b b b b gilding gilding gold gold leaf leaf leaf silver supply | 6 |
gilding gold | 4 |
gilding gold goldleaf leaf restoration | 4 |
gilding lily | 3 |
gilding technique | 3 |
gilding gold leaf supply | 3 |
b b b b b b binnington frances gilding glass painting reverse | 3 |
achitectural gilding | 2 |
gilding silver | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gilding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtresë ari, prarim (incrustation, patina), pamje e jashtme mashtruese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تمويه (camouflage, concealment, disguise, silvering, whitewash), طلاء (enamel, facing, glaze, grout, overlay, paint, size, varnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | украса (adornment, decking, decoration, dressing, embellishment, embroidery, flower, fretwork, ornament, set off, trappings), прикриване на неприятни неща, позлатяване (plating), позлата (gilt, gold leaf, plate, plating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 镀金料. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pozlacení (gilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | forgyldning (gold plating), broncering (oxidized oil staining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geoxideerde-olievlekken (oxidized oil staining), verguldsel, vergulding, vergulden (gild, gold plating), vergeling door olievlekken (oxidized oil staining), vergelen (oxidized oil staining, to yellow, yellowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kultaus (gilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dorure (gilt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vergoldung (gilt, gold paint, gold plate, gold plating, painting gold, plating), vergoldend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρύσωσις, επιχρύσωσις, επιχρύσωση (gilt, gold plating), λεκές οξείδωσης λιπαντικού (oxidized oil staining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ז"ב", "ז""בות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aranyozás (gilt, plating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peremasan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | doratura (gilt, gold plating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 金鍍金 (gild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"めっき (gild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ildinggay douradura (gilt, gold, gold plating, tooling). (various references) poleialã (foil, tinsel, varnish, veneer), aurire (gilt). (various references) золочение, позолота (gilt). (various references) deiltreadh. (various references) pozlaćivanje (plating). (various references) dorado (aureate, Dorado, gilded, gilt, golden). (various references) förgyllning (gilt, gold plate, plating). (various references) การชุบทอง. (various references) yaldız (gilt, veneer), altın kaplama (gold plate, gold-plated). (various references) золочення, позолота (gilt). (various references) v ng mạ sự mạ v ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gilding": gildings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gilding": engilding, overgilding, regilding. (additional references) | |
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"Gilding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: geldin, giding, gilden, Gildon, gillying, Gindin, glidding, gliming, godling, Guilding, guildings, gylden, Pildinny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gilding" (pronounced gi"lding) |
| 5 | -i" l d i ng | building, nonbuilding, rebuilding. |
| 4 | -l d i ng | balding, beholding, Fielding, folding, handholding, heralding, holding, landholding, Melding, molding, moulding, overbuilding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, shielding, shipbuilding, unfolding, unyielding, upholding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, yielding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gliding. | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-i-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: idling. | |
-3 letters: ding, gild, ling, nidi. | |
-4 letters: dig, din, gid, gig, gin, lid, lin, nil. | |
-5 letters: id, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-g-i-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: gildings, girdling, ridgling. | |
+2 letters: dialoging, divulging, engilding, griddling, indulging, regilding, ridgeling, ridglings. | |
+3 letters: begirdling, delighting, dialoguing, dislodging, engirdling, glissading, grindingly, impledging, mislodging, ridgelings. | |
+4 letters: daylighting, disobliging, ganglioside, gridlocking, lightninged, mudslinging, overgilding. | |
+5 letters: daylightings, digitalizing, disgruntling, disgustingly, gangliosides, goldbricking, ideologizing, lifeguarding, mudslingings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 6C 64 69 6E 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. .-.. -.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i l d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 006C 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41757870758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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