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Ambrotype
noun · 78% connection
A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark bac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Aventurine
noun · 78% connection
A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of som…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Batter
verb · 78% connection
To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Beam
noun · 78% connection
A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Binocle
noun · 78% connection
A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Binocular
noun · 78% connection
A binocular glass, whether opera glass, telescope, or microscope.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Bocca
noun · 78% connection
The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Book
noun · 78% connection
A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound shee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Came
noun · 78% connection
A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or piece…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Carboy
noun · 78% connection
A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Cataphracted
adjective · 78% connection
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Cerography
noun · 78% connection
A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Compressor
noun · 78% connection
An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressori…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Crystal
noun · 78% connection
A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Cylindrical
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Dynameter
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye en…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
Explain
adjective · 78% connection
To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flatten, sheets, plates, cylinder, glass.
