From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en], a town in Cyrenaica, now
called Benghazi.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. A type of paint with a solvent that evaporate s to leave a hard , transparent , glossy film .
2. Anything resembling such a paint; glossy appearance.
3. * [chapter=12]
4. [en] A deceptively showy appearance .
5. * [IV]
6. [en] a passenger train , probably derived from the varnished passenger cars used at one time.
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1959 | title=Steam's Finest Hour | editor=David P. Morgan | publisher=Kalmbach Publishing Co.
|passage=Every transcontinental but two settled on the simple articulated for
freight service, and _all_ of them coupled their VARNISH to the 4-8-4.}}
**** Derived terms
{{col2|en|Japan varnish |rock varnish |varnishlike |varnishless |desert
varnish |nail varnish |varnish polish |varnishy |varnish tree}}
**** Descendants
- [ja]
**** Translations
[transparent paint]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Central Melanau: [mel]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manx: [gv] , [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mokilese: [mkj] , [mkj]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[anything resembling such a paint]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Venetan: [vec]
[trans-bottom]
[a deceptively showy appearance]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- French: [fr]
- German: [1] [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To apply varnish.
2. [en] To cover up with varnish.
3. [en] To make something superficially or deceptively attractive
4. [en] To gloss over a defect .
5. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col2|en |varnishment |revarnish|varnishing day |varnishable |varnisher}}
**** Translations
[intransitive: to apply varnish]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[transitive: to cover up with varnish]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to gloss over a defect]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]