Crossword clues for veneer
veneer
- Superficial coating
- Specious outward appearance of good quality
- Specious appearance
- Facing archdeacon, counterpart appearing powerless
- Thin wooden facing
- Thin wood facing
- Thin outer layer
- Thin covering over wood
- Wood finish
- Outer layer of wood
- Furniture layer
- Wood layer
- Dental treatment
- Wood cover
- Surface wood layer
- Furniture surface
- A thin coat that often cracks
- Thin wood layer
- Thin wood finish
- Thin top layer of decorative wood
- Thin layer as of wood
- Thin decorative covering of fine wood
- Superficial layer
- Superficial exterior
- Shiny wood overlay
- Shallow quality
- Furniture overlay
- Furniture maker's overlay
- Furniture facade
- External layer
- Decorative facade
- Facade of sorts
- Coat
- Plywood layer, perhaps
- Use for expensive wood
- Varnished surface, sometimes
- Superficiality
- Finish
- False front or facade
- Guise
- Front
- Furniture finish
- Coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
- An ornamental coating to a building
- Attractive but superficial display
- Gloss
- Antique owner's concern
- Woodworker's facade
- Surface layer
- Superficial polish
- Superficial show
- Thin layer of wood
- Surface elegance
- Form of fakery
- Wood overlay
- Overlay
- Verne novel featuring Nemo's second appearance
- Go off track to get round edges of Eastern Front?
- Misleading external appearance
- Archdeacon always displaying specious refinement
- Superficial appearance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veneer \Ve*neer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Veneered; p. pr. & vb. n. Veneering.] [G. furnieren, fourniren, fr. F. fournir to furnish. See Furnish.] To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
As a rogue in grain
Veneered with sanctimonious theory.
--Tennyson.
Veneer \Ve*neer"\, n. [Cf. G. furnier or fournier. See Veneer, v. t.] A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
Veneer moth (Zo["o]l.), any moth of the genus Chilo; -- so called because the mottled colors resemble those of veneering.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1702, from German Furnier, from furnieren "to cover with a veneer, inlay," from French fournir "to furnish, accomplish," from Middle French fornir "to furnish," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German frumjan "to provide;" see furnish). From German to French to German to English. Figurative sense of "mere outward show of some good quality" is attested from 1868.
1728 (earlier fineer, 1708), from German furnieren (see veneer (n.)). Related: Veneered; veneering.
Wiktionary
n. A thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to coarser wood or other material. vb. 1 (context woodworking English) To apply veneer. 2 (context figurative English) To disguise with apparent goodness.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Veneer a may refer to:
- Wood veneer, a thin facing layer of wood
- Masonry veneer, a thin facing layer of brick
- Stone veneer, a thin facing layer of stone
- Veneer (dentistry), a cosmetic treatment for teeth
- Veneer (album), a musical recording by José González
- "Veneer", a song by The Verve Pipe from Villains
Veneer is the debut album by the Swedish singer-songwriter José González. It was released on October 29, 2003 in Sweden; April 25, 2005 in the rest of Europe; and on September 6, 2005 in the United States. It has sold over 700,000 copies around the world and went platinum in the UK.
Veneer is a four-track extended play by Irish noise pop band September Girls. The E.P. was recorded at Guerilla Studios in Dublin and released on November 24th 2014 via Fortuna Pop! (EU) and Kanine Records (US), 11 months after the release of their debut album Cursing the Sea.
In dentistry, a veneer is a layer of material placed over a tooth, either to improve the aesthetics of a tooth or to protect the tooth's surface from damage. There are two main types of material used to fabricate a veneer: composite and dental porcelain. A composite veneer may be directly placed (built-up in the mouth), or indirectly fabricated by a dental technician in a dental lab, and later bonded to the tooth, typically using a resin cement such as Panavia. In contrast, a porcelain veneer may only be indirectly fabricated. Full veneer crown is described as “A restoration that covers all the coronal tooth surfaces (Mesial, Distal, Facial, Lingual and Occlusal)”. Laminate veneer, on the other hand, is a thin layer that covers only the surface of the tooth and generally used for aesthetic purposes.
Usage examples of "veneer".
Smith gasped, his Highland accent breaking through the English veneer, as it always did in stressful situations.
He had been a good scholar in college, not so much by hard study as by skilful veneering, and had taken great pains to stand well with the Faculty, at least one of whom, Byles Gridley, A.
Briefly, putting two and two together, six sixteen which he pointedly turned a deaf ear to, Antonio and so forth, jockeys and esthetes and the tattoo which was all the go in the seventies or thereabouts even in the house of lords because early in life the occupant of the throne, then heir apparent, the other members of the upper ten and other high personages simply following in the footsteps of the head of the state, he reflected about the errors of notorieties and crowned heads running counter to morality such as the Cornwall case a number of years before under their veneer in a way scarcely intended by nature, a thing good Mrs Grundy, as the law stands, was terribly down on though not for the reason they thought they were probably whatever it was except women chiefly who were always fiddling more or less at one another it being largely a matter of dress and all the rest of it.
Sometimes he felt as if he toiled in the German salt mines of the soul for no result and that public revels such as May Day stripped away a thin veneer of goodliness to show the evil pits of paganism lurking under the skin of everyday life.
Aubrey paused before a door that was merely a dull veneered sheet of hardboard, and knocked.
Selection and Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding, Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.
She was in her mid-thirties now, with straightened hair, a lineless face whose oldest features were her dark, watchful eyes, and the well-tailored veneer of a professional woman.
He was rollicking, noisy, good-natured, but under the boyish veneer was a hard indomitable nature.
The Sunhoose fire wi the wee twirly bits in the veneered teak surrounds has seen better days.
But, seeing that the thin veneer of modesty with which every woman of the world is furnished goes but a very little way below the surface, they began rather to enjoy this unedifying episode, and at bottom were hugely delighted-- feeling themselves in their element, furthering the schemes of lawless love with the gusto of a gourmand cook who prepares supper for another.
Although he had acquired an autocratic manner and social veneer, there were still remnants of that eager young captain he had once been.
Image is everything, sure, but Bonny suddenly has the spiteful hope that Mona is bucktoothed and fish-eyed, eczemaed and jug-eared, when you peel back her digital veneer.
Felipe said, lifting his head, looking up at Lo Manto, his face washed with a veneer of tears.
Trying to see past the assumptions and misguesses, past the veneer others themselves generate defensively, trying to see the real Jack.
It contained a double bed without a headboard, polyurethane curtains of white and silver thread, and a long dresser of fake oak veneer under a mirror stuck to the wall with clear plastic fasteners.