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Definitions: Veneer |
VeneerNoun1. Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood. 2. An ornamental coating to a building. Verb1. Cover with veneer, as of furniture. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "veneer" was first used: 1702. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | The thin layers of wood are called --. This veneer is made by revolving straight logs in a large veneer-cutting lathe. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are veneering, denotes that you will systematically deceive your friends, your speculations will be of a misleading nature. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Il "veneer", conosciuto anche come innesto alla maiorchina modificato, ha riscosso ovunque un grande successo ed è lar-gamente utilizzato in Florida, India, Pakistan, Portorico ed Israele; è una tecnica originaria della Florida dove si pra-tica dal 1941. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A thin, widespread layer of sediment covering an older surface. (references) |
Industry | A single sheet of veneer, or several sheets laid side by side with adjoining edges that may or may not be glued, forming one layer in a piece of plywood. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: VeneerSynonyms: facing (n), veneering (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Verb: cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap; encase, incase; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard. |
Veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish; (resin) a; plating, barrel plating, anointing; Verb: enamel; epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment; (grease). | |
Deception | Whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw. |
Layer | Verb: slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover. |
Ornament | Garnish, polish, varnish, French polish, veneer, japanning, lacquer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Lyrics | Your veneer is wearing thin and cracking ("Bittersweet Me"; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
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 | Brick veneer houses. Greenhills, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Veneer mill. Newport, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Veneer mill. Morrisville, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Logs for veneer mill at Morrisville, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Veneer wood mill. Morrisville, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Veneer wood mill. Morrisville, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Canada's building products industry is best noted for commodities like lumber, plywood, shingles, veneer, and particleboard. (references) | |
Russian conifer plywood and veneer, if produced to the Japanese quality standards and in substantial quantities, can become highly marketable in Japan. (references) | ||
There is also an increased interest locally to develop OSB (Oriented Strand Board), and LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber), and other special lumber products manufacturing, but high start-up costs combined with financial challenges makes these plans hardly realistic, at least for the next 2 years. (references) | ||
Economic History | Portugal | Also hardwood veneer accounted for $ 4 million. (references) |
Portugal | Tropical hardwood, logs, veneer, pallets, staves, etc. (references) | |
Taiwan | Local production is focused on plywood manufacturing using imported veneer. (references) | |
Minorities | Bulgaria | Often cloaked in a veneer of "patriotism," intolerance of the religious beliefs of others was widespread. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | The DENR allows the importation of wood materials (including logs and lumber, plywood and veneer, poles and piles) by a holder of Timber License Agreement (TLA), Industrial Forest Management Agreement (IFMA), Wood Processing Plant Permit (WPPP) or Certificate of Registration (CR) as furniture manufacturer, agent, contractor, or dealer of logs and lumber; provided that the holder shall have his TLA, IFMA, WPPP or CR registered with the Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA) and subsequently stamped by the Office of the Regional Executive Director/DENR as a valid Authority to Import. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Veneer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Veneer" is used about 163 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.39% | 162 | 24,580 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "veneer": decorative veneer ♦ face veneer ♦ jointed veneer ♦ sawn veneer ♦ top veneer ♦ trimmed veneer ♦ veneer moth ♦ veneer sheet. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "veneer": veneer-presses, veneer-thin. | |
Ending with "veneer": walnut-veneer. | |
| 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 |
stone veneer | 256 |
veneer | 231 |
wood veneer | 164 |
brick veneer | 155 |
sliced veneer | 24 |
veneer door | 23 |
cut rotary veneer | 22 |
tooth veneer | 22 |
panel raised veneer | 19 |
component veneer | 19 |
door panel raised veneer | 19 |
laminated lumber veneer | 16 |
porcelain veneer | 16 |
maple veneer | 14 |
oak veneer | 12 |
cultured stone veneer | 12 |
veneer repair | 12 |
thin brick veneer | 12 |
rock veneer | 11 |
teak veneer | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veneer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rimesoj, rimeso, lustër i jashtëm, i jap një lustër (varnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كسا بقشرة خشبية, مظهر خادع (fallacy, show), قشرة خشبية, طبقة خارجية للوقاية, أخفى عيبا تحت مظهر خادع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фурнир, външен блясък (flash, flashiness, gilt, gloss, vanity), облицовка (coat, facing, lining, onlay, overlay, paneling, panelling, revetment, tiling), облицовам с фурнир, замазка (mastic, paste), замазвам (gloss, gloss over, lute, seal, slur over, smarm, smooth out, soft pedal, stifle, varnish), лъскавина (brightness, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, polish, sheen, shine, varnish), лустро (gloss, luster, lustre, polish, top dressing, varnish), придавам външен блясък на, покривам с фурнир, политура (glaze, glazing, gloss, polish, varnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 表面饰板. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pozlátko (façade, gilt, gloss, gold leaf, tinsel, varnish), patina, obklad (application, compress, lining), obkládat dýhami, nátìr (coating, overlay, paint, varnish), dýhovat, dýha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lag (bed, coat, course, lag, layer, level, ply, round, seam, sheath, sheet, slab, stratum, streak, tier, veneer sheet), finerplade (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), finerlag (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), finere, finer (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), finér (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laag (abject, base, bed, coating, course, deep, dressing, lamina, layer, level, low, nasty, ply, sheath, sheet, storey, story, stratum, veneer sheet, vile, wash), fineren (veneering), fineerlaag (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), fineerhout (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), fineerblad (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), fineer (marquetry), blad fineer (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چوب مخصوص روکش مبل وغیره , لایه نازک چوب , جلاء , روکش زدن به , روکش (Blanket, Casing, Coat, Plate, Slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viilu (furrow slice, layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet, worked strip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | placage (veneer sheet, veneering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Furnier (layer, marquetry, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), furnieren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καπλαμάς (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללב", לבי" (plywood), עץ לבו" (plywood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | furnér (panelling, plywood), borítólemez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | fineer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | strato del compensato (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), sogliato (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), sfogliato (layer, peeled veneer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), plis (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), piallaccio (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), Innesto alla maiorchina modificato o "veneer", impiallacciatura (veneering), impiallacciare, foglio da impallaciatura (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), foglio (foil, folio, layer, leaf, piece, ply, sheet, sheet of paper, slab, tissue (obsolete), veneer sheet), foglia (layer, leaf, ply, ruck, sheet, veneer sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 薄板 (laminate), 化粧張り , ベトナ 戦争 (Bedouin, Vietnam war), 上張り (coat, face). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ベニヤ , うすいた (laminate), うわばり (coat, face, finishing coat of paper), けしょうばり. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 니어. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keiltyn (conceal, concealment, cover, cover up, disguise, dissimulate, dissimulation, harbour, hide, renege, shelter, sneak, suppress, suppression, veil), follaghtyn (burke, conceal, concealment, disguise, hide, mask, muffle), cur aachrackan er, aachrackan, aachoodagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneervay verniz máscara, placagem (layer, pancakes, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), madeira folheada, folheado de madeira (layer, ply, sheet, veneer sheet), folheado (foliate, sliced), folha (block, break, field, foil, folio, gazette, layer, leaf, magazine, manyplies, nappe, newspaper, omasum, periodical, plot, ply, psalterium, sheath, sheet, sheet metal, sheet steel, slab, thin sheet, third stomach, tin, veneer sheet), camada superficial, aparência (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, expression, exterior, external, garb, guise, likewise, look, make, perspective, semblance, shell, shew, show, sight, stalking horse, surface, view). (various references) spoialã (gloss, smattering, varnish, whitewashing), spoi (gild, silver, tin, varnish, whiten, whitewash), smalţ (enamel, glaze, varnish), smãlţui (anneal, enamel, varnish), poleialã (foil, gilding, tinsel, varnish), polei (brighten, fill, glazed frost, surface), placa (metal, tackle, wash), lustru (gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, lustrum, polish, shallowness, shine, varnish), furnirui, furnir, emaila (enamel, glaze, varnish), email (enamel, varnish), cãptuşealã din cãrãmidã aparentã. (various references) фанерный, шпон (interline, slug), наружный слой (skin). (various references) s glazurom, s furnirom, glazura (cake ice, frosting, glaze, topping, varnish), furnir. (various references) chapa (border, chappa, framboesia, layer, line pan, pan, plate, ply, sheet, sheet iron, tag, veneer sheet, warp). (various references) fernissa (dope, lacquer, varnish), fanera, faner (veneers). (various references) yaldızlamak (gild), yaldız (gilding, gilt), sırlamak (enamel, glaze, silver, varnish, vitrify), kaplamak (back, bestrew, canopy, carpet, case, clothe, coat, cover, encrust, envelop, face, fair, film, film over, fleece, hang, incrust, infest, line, overgrow, overlap, overspread, overwhelm, plate, recap, revet, sheathe, sheet, shield, smother in, smother with, suffuse, take, thread, upholster, wreathe), kaplama tahtası, gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneering), döşemek (appoint, floor, furnish, inlay, lay down, spread, upholster), cilalamak (apply polish, blanch, burnish, finish, furbish, give a polish, gloss, luster, polish, shine, surface, varnish, wax), cila (chaser, dope, finish, finishing, glaze, glazing, gloss, luster, lustre, polish, polisher, polishing, rubbing varnish, shine, varnish, veneering, wax), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, wash out, whitewash). (various references) faner (r) (plywood). (various references) шпон (skillet), обшивати фанерою, наліт показного, надавати зовнішнього блиску. (various references) vỏ ngo i, bề ngo i (aspect, exterior, face, glossy, outside, seeming, superficies). (various references) argaen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bratteas, lammina, lamminae, lamminam, lamminas, lamminis, nebula, nebulae, nebulam, nebulas. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | fornir. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | fournir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veneer": veneered, veneerer, veneerers, veneering, veneerings, veneers. (additional references) | |
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"Veneer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enefer, Jenever, reneer, vanea, vaneer, vaner, veena, veener, veerer, veiner, vendere, vene, venee, veneen, veneert, vener, venere, venerel, venez, venier, vennear, venner, venuer, veny, viener, Vihear, vinier, voner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "veneer" (pronounced vuni"r) |
| 5 | v u n i" r | souvenir. |
| 4 | -u n i" r | auctioneer, bioengineer, conventioneer, domineer, electioneer, engineer, mutineer, pioneer, reengineer. |
| 3 | -n i" r | near, Rainier, sneer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: evener. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: nerve, never, reeve. | |
-2 letters: erne, even, ever, neve, veer. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, eve, nee, ree, rev, vee. | |
-4 letters: en, er, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-r-v" | |
+1 letter: enfever, eveners, revenge, revenue, unreeve, veneers. | |
+2 letters: enervate, enfevers, everymen, everyone, overkeen, overseen, overween, revehent, revenged, revenger, revenges, revenued, revenuer, revenues, reverend, reverent, unevener, unreeved, unreeves, veneered, veneerer, venerate, venereal, veneries, vergence, versemen, whenever. | |
+3 letters: breakeven, denervate, enervated, enervates, enfevered, evergreen, intervene, nerveless, nevermore, overeaten, overweens, prevented, preventer, reconvene, reengrave, relevance, retentive, revengers, revenuers, reverence, reverends, revetment, severance, supervene, unreserve, veneerers, veneering, venerable, venerated, venerates, veniremen, vergences, vicereine. | |
+4 letters: advertence, anteverted, averseness, breakevens, cleverness, denervated, denervates, divergence, endeavored, enfevering, evergreens, everywomen, fervencies, generative, heavenlier, interleave, intervened, intervener, intervenes, interweave, inveterate, irreverent, lavendered, maneuvered, maneuverer, overbeaten, overextend, overseeing, overweened, prevalence, prevenient, preventers, preventive, reconceive, reconvened, reconvenes, reconveyed, reengraved, reengraves, reinvented, reinvested, rejuvenate, relevances, replevined, revealment, revengeful, reverenced, reverencer, reverences, reverently, revetments, revilement, servicemen, severances, severeness, supervened, supervenes, unbeliever, undeserved, unrelieved, unreserved, unreserves, unrevealed, unreviewed, veneerings, vespertine, vicegerent, vicereines, virescence, whensoever. | |
+5 letters: adverseness, advertences, averageness, bereavement, convergence, deliverance, deliverymen, depravement, divergences, diverseness, eigenvector, endeavoured, enumerative, erosiveness, exonerative, foreverness, governesses, gravenesses, hereinabove, interleaved, interleaves, interveners, interviewed, interviewee, interviewer, interweaved, interweaves, invernesses, irrelevance, irreverence, maneuverers, nervelessly, nervinesses, nonbeliever, overcleaned, overearnest, overextends, overfeeding, overintense, overlearned, overrefined, overseeding, overspender, oversweeten, overtnesses, overweening, penetrative, persevering, preconceive, prevalences, preventable, preventible, preventives, provenience, reconceived, reconceives, reconverted, reinnervate, reinterview, rejuvenated, rejuvenates, relevancies, rereviewing, restiveness, retentively, revealments, reverberant, reverencers, reverencing, reverential, reversioner, revilements, servileness, unbelievers, undelivered, underserved, unperceived, unreceptive, unrecovered, venturesome, verboseness, vicegerency, vicegerents, vinedresser, virescences, volunteered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 6E 65 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . -. . . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e n e e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006E 0065 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567180717184 |
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