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laminate
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laminate \Lam"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laminated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Laminating .] [See Lamina .] To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates. To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling. To form by uniting two ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He tries in vain to blag my laminate off me. ▪ My face and laminate is checked by dayglo security folk. ▪ Sparkle's hull was built of two laminates of diagonally laid red cedar on an inner core of longitudinal Douglas fir. ▪ ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "to beat or roll into thin plates," from Latin lamina "thin piece of metal or wood, thin slice, plate, leaf, layer," of unknown origin. Many modern senses are from the noun meaning "an artificial thin layer" (1939), especially a type of plastic adhesive. ...
Usage examples of laminate.
Blankly surveys the canary expanse of laminated cabinetry while it boils.
A box of laminates teetered and fell and fanned clear laminates all over the wet floor.
Burning fuel spreads in among the pallets of laminates and the flames leap from stack to stack until the heat is so intense that it melts the steel security fence around the compound.
The wall was a living brickwork of locksheets, laminated charts, one hundred thousand charts to the inch, the wall preselected and preassembled for all imaginable contingencies of the journey which, each time afresh, took the ship across half-unknown immensities of time and space.
JaneAnn had nearly worn holes in the Purves and Purves rugs with her enthusiastic Hoovering, and almost shone away the protective laminate from the polished concrete floors.
Bacmudsorak, swearing us all to secrecy, noted that early in its igneous development, it had harbored a millennia-long case of pyroclastic envy against a pit mine of collateral laminates.
The theory failed to explain why the killer used a bow and arrow, why he dropped a laminated ace of spades on each body, and why he had left untouched the kilo of angel dust his latest victim had been carrying.
Gray windowlight shines on clear plastic sheets like little laminates inside the thing.
They were, all three of them, dressed in faded denims - the uniform of the bush fighters - and the weapons they carried with casual familiarity were the ubiquitous AK 47s with the distinctive curved black magazine and laminated woodwork.
We both exchanged glances, then shrugged and located our appropriate lockers by the little laminated name plates slotted into them.
Thousands of tubes are wound together into ropelike segments so that the supports resemble deep black laminated leather, but are rigid like a beetle shell-you could easily hold a 500foot rod of this material in one hand.
The boxed advertisement went on at some length in the teeniest print imaginable, listing their products, which included: asphalt, lumber, lumite, mesh, polyethylene, steel haulers, vinyl-coated polyester, vinyl laminates, tarps, welding curtains, screens, blankets, roll systems, and drop cloths.
It was framed of steam-bent ash, fitted with laminated panels made of poplar or basswood, resting on thick leather straps called thoroughbraces, made from ox hides instead of steel springs.
Gately lay in the Trauma Ward in terrific infected pain, trying to Abide between cravings for relief by remembering a blinding white afternoon just after Xmas, when Fackelmann and Kite were off disposing of some of a furnished apartment's furnishings and Gately was killing time in the apartment laminating some false MA drivers licenses rush-ordered by rich Philips Andover Academy371 kids for what turned out to be the last New Year's Eve of Unsubsidized Time.
They drilled borings, and came up with cores that were gritty and icy, laminated for as far down as they could drill.