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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | varnish, lacquer |
| Synonyms: | buff, burnish, coat, cover, enamel, furbish, glance, glass, gloss, incrust, make lustrous, make vitreous, overlay, polish, rub, shine, vitrify |
| Antonyms: | strip |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put covering inside object |
| Synonyms: | bush, ceil, cover, encrust, face, fill, incrust, interline, overlay, panel, quilt, reinforce, sheath, stuff, wad, wainscot |
| Antonyms: | strip, unline |
| Main Entry: | odds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | allowance, benefit, bulge, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, draw, edge, handicap, head start, lead, overlay, start, superiority, vantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | overlap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie over something else |
| Synonyms: | extend along, flap, fold over, go beyond, imbricate, lap over, overhang, overlay, overlie, overrun, project, protrude, ride, run over, shingle |
| Antonyms: | divide, separate |
| Main Entry: | paint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tinted covering |
| Synonyms: | acrylic, chroma, color, coloring, cosmetic, dye, emulsion, enamel, flat, gloss, greasepaint, latex, makeup, oil, overlay, pigment, rouge, stain, tempera, varnish, veneer, wax |
| Main Entry: | plaster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spread, smear |
| Synonyms: | adhere, bedaub, besmear, bind, cement, coat, cover, daub, glue, gum, overlay, paste, smudge |
| Main Entry: | plate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coat with metallic material |
| Synonyms: | anodize, bronze, chrome, cover, electroplate, enamel, encrust, face, flake, foil, gild, laminate, layer, nickel, overlay, platinize, scale, silver, stratify |
| Notes: | dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized |
| Main Entry: | sheet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, covering; page |
| Synonyms: | area, blanket, coat, expanse, film, foil, folio, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, overlay, pane, panel, piece, plate, ply, slab, stratum, stretch, surface, sweep, veneer |
| Main Entry: | smear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rub on, spread over |
| Synonyms: | apply, bedaub, besmirch, blur, coat, cover, dab, daub, defile, dirty, discolor, overlay, overspread, patch, plaster, slop, smudge, soil, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish |
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