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noun
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the coating thus applied: the silvering of the mirror.
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Silvering
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noun
1.
Chemistry. a white, ductile metallic element, used for making mirrors, coins, ornaments, table utensils, photographic chemicals, conductors, etc. Symbol: Ag; atomic weight: 107.870; atomic number: 47; specific gravity: 10.5 at 20°C.
2.
coin made of this metal; specie; money: a handful of silver.
3.
this metal as a commodity or considered as a currency standard.
4.
table articles made of or plated with silver, including flatware and hollowware.
5.
EXPANDany flatware: The kitchen silver is of stainless steel.
6.
something resembling this metal in color, luster, etc.
7.
a lustrous grayish white or whitish gray, or the color of the metal: the silver of the leaves.
8.
COLLAPSEany of the silver halides used for photographic purposes, as silver bromide, silver chloride, or silver iodide.
adjective
10.
consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
11.
of or pertaining to silver.
12.
producing or yielding silver.
13.
resembling silver; silvery: the silver moon.
14.
EXPANDclear and soft: silver sounds.
15.
eloquent; persuasive: a silver tongue.
16.
urging the use of silver as a currency standard: silver economists.
17.
indicating the twenty-fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.
18.
COLLAPSEhaving the color silver: a silver dress.
verb (used with object)
19.
to coat with silver or some silverlike substance.
20.
to give a silvery color to.
verb (used without object)
21.
to become a silvery color.
Origin:
before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English silver(e), selver(e), selfer, Old English siolfor (orig. noun); cognate with German Silber, Old Norse silfr, Gothic silubr, akin to Serbo-Croatian srèbro, Russian serebró, Lithuanian sidãbras; (v.) late Middle English silveren, derivative of the noun
before 900; (noun and adj.) Middle English silver(e), selver(e), selfer, Old English siolfor (orig. noun); cognate with German Silber, Old Norse silfr, Gothic silubr, akin to Serbo-Croatian srèbro, Russian serebró, Lithuanian sidãbras; (v.) late Middle English silveren, derivative of the noun
Related forms
sil·ver·er, noun
sil·ver·ish, adjective
sil·ver·less, adjective
sil·ver·like, adjective
sil·ver·ness, noun
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| silver (ˈsɪlvə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a very ductile malleable brilliant greyish-white element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal. It occurs free and in argentite and other ores: used in jewellery, tableware, coinage, electrical contacts, and in electroplating. Its compounds are used in photography. Symbol: Ag; atomic no: 47; atomic wt: 107.8682; valency: 1 or 2; relative density: 10.50; melting pt: 961.93°C; boiling pt: 2163°C |
| b. (as modifier): a silver coin Related: argent | |
| 2. | coin made of, or having the appearance of, this metal |
| 3. | cutlery, whether made of silver or not |
| 4. | any household articles made of silver |
| 5. | photog any of a number of silver compounds used either as photosensitive substances in emulsions or as sensitizers |
| 6. | a. a brilliant or light greyish-white colour |
| b. (as adjective): silver hair | |
| 7. | short for silver medal |
| —adj | |
| 8. | well-articulated: silver speech |
| 9. | (prenominal) denoting the 25th in a series, esp an annual series: a silver wedding anniversary |
| —vb | |
| 10. | (tr) to coat with silver or a silvery substance: to silver a spoon |
| 11. | to become or cause to become silvery in colour |
| 12. | to become or cause to become elderly |
| Related: argent | |
| [Old English siolfor; related to Old Norse silfr, Gothic silubr, Old High German silabar, Old Slavonic sirebro] | |
| 'silverer | |
| —n | |
| 'silvering | |
| —n | |
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silvering
process of making mirrors by coating glass with silver, discovered by the German chemist Justus von Liebig in 1835. In the process silver-ammonia compounds are reduced chemically to metallic silver, which is deposited on a suitably shaped glass surface. Modern processes may utilize silver solutions and reducer solutions-consisting of invert sugar, Rochelle salt, or formaldehyde-that meet in a spray above clean glass traveling on a conveyor; as the spray falls on the glass surface, metallic silver is deposited.
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