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em·er·y

(ĕm′ə-rē, ĕm′rē)

A fine-grained impure corundum used for grinding and polishing.

[Middle English, from Old French emeri, emeril, from Late Latin smericulum, from Greek smuris, smiris; perhaps akin to smēn, to wipe, cleanse (of unknown origin) or to Hebrew šāmîr, a kind of very hard substance (possibly corundum).]

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emery

(ˈɛmərɪ)

(Minerals)

a. a hard greyish-black mineral consisting of corundum with either magnetite or haematite: used as an abrasive and polishing agent, esp as a coating on paper, cloth, etc. Formula: Al2O3

b. (as modifier): emery paper.

[C15: from Old French esmeril, ultimately from Greek smuris powder for rubbing]

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em•er•y

(ˈɛm ə ri, ˈɛm ri)

n.

a dark, impure, granular variety of corundum used for grinding and polishing.

[1475–85; < Middle French emeri, Old French esmeril < Vulgar Latin *smēriculum= Medieval Greek smêri (for Greek smýris rubbing powder; akin to smear) + Latin -culum -cule²]

em·er·y

(ĕm′ə-rē)

A dark mineral that is very hard and is used in a crushed or powdered form for grinding and polishing.

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Noun

emery - a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)

mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition

corundom, corundum - very hard mineral used as an abrasive

emery paper, sandpaper - stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand

haematite, hematite - the principal form of iron ore; consists of ferric oxide in crystalline form; occurs in a red earthy form

magnetic iron-ore, magnetite - an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets

Translations

صَنْفَرَه، سُنْباذَج

smergel

EmmerichSchmirgel

AymericémeriÉmeric

csiszolóporImre

smergill

smeriglio carta vetrata

dildė

smirģelis

smergel

zımpara

金刚砂

emery

[ˈemərɪ]

A. N → esmeril m

B. CPD emery board N → lima f de uñas
emery cloth N → tela f de esmeril
emery paper N → papel m de esmeril

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

emery

n → Schmirgel m

emery

emery board

n → Papiernagelfeile f

emery cloth

n → Schmirgelleinwand f

emery paper

n → Schmirgelpapier nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

emery

[ˈɛmərɪ] n → smeriglio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

emery

(ˈeməri) noun

a very hard kind of mineral, used as a powder etc for polishing.

emery board

a small flat strip of wood or card coated with emery powder and used for filing the fingernails.

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This man, named Emery, was the object of popular detestation, in the first place because he was superintendent of finance, and every superintendent of finance deserved to be hated; in the second place, because he rather deserved the odium which he had incurred.

He was the son of a banker at Lyons named Particelli, who, after becoming a bankrupt, chose to change his name to Emery; and Cardinal Richelieu having discovered in him great financial aptitude, had introduced him with a strong recommendation to Louis XIII.

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I will inflict Joseph Emery Prank on you no longer."

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"Yes, I do, for he has got a raging headache, and his eyes are as red as as this emery bag," answered Rose, solemnly plunging her needle into a fat flannel strawberry.

Charlie laid himself out flat, melodramatically begging someone to take him away and hang him; but Archie, who felt worst of all, said nothing except to vow within himself that he would read to Mac till his own eyes were as red as a dozen emery bags combined.

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Sometimes, however, as in the affair of the assassins of Petit-Jean, the headsman of Paris, and in that of Emery Rousseau, the murderer of Jean Valleret, justice overleaped the church and passed on to the execution of its sentences; but unless by virtue of a decree of Parliament, woe to him who violated a place of asylum with armed force!

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They would smouch provisions from the pantry whenever they got a chance; or a brass thimble, or a cake of wax, or an emery bag, or a paper of needles, or a silver spoon, or a dollar bill, or small articles of clothing, or any other property of light value; and so far were they from considering such reprisals sinful, that they would go to church and shout and pray the loudest and sincerest with their plunder in their pockets.

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She polished her needles to nothing, pushing them in and out of the emery strawberry, but they always squeaked.

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Michael smiled with his eyes that he understood, and turned casually aside to investigate an open box on the floor which contained plates of turtle-shell, hack-saws, and emery paper.

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0., who learned from the regimental chaplain that Bobby was considerably more in request in the hospital tents than the Reverend John Emery.

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"They bide at Emery Down, a mile or more from here.

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Very slowly these lectures, and the tireless activity of Hubbard, pushed back the ridicule and the incredulity; and in the merry month of May, 1877, a man named Emery drifted into Hubbard's office from the near-by city of Charlestown, and leased two telephones for twenty actual dollars--the first money ever paid for a telephone.