| 单词 | varnish |
| 释义 | varnish (once / 1301 pages) nv Varnish is a shiny coating that's painted on a floor or piece of furniture and then dries clear and luminous. After refinishing an old oak chair, you might apply a coat of varnish. (Just don't sit on it until it's dry.) Varnish gives artwork, furniture, and other objects a finished, glossy look, and it also protects the surface. Most varnish is made from oil, solvent, and resin. You can also use the word as a verb, meaning "to coat with varnish." Many people decide to varnish their wood floors or their wooden kitchen counters. The Medieval Latin root word is vernix, "odorous or fragrant resin." WORD FAMILYvarnish: varnished, varnisher, varnishes, varnishing+/varnished: unvarnished/varnisher: varnishers USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials complained that the nail varnish prevented them from applying the indelible ink correctly. BBC(Dec 23, 2016) Finally, several layers of varnish were applied with a brush, and a final coat with a spray. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Varnish is entitled to see her records under the Data Protection Act. BBC(Dec 14, 2016) 1n a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface Hypo|Hyper fixative a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging shellac, shellac varnisha thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood French polish, French polish shellaca varnish for wood consisting of shellac dissolved in alcohol coat, coating a thin layer covering something 2v cover with varnish Syn|Hypo|Hyper seal shellac, shellack cover with shellac coat, surface put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface |
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