Word Meanings - ONIONSKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.

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• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• FINISH
  1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
• GLOSSY
  1. Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface. 2. Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.
• FINISHING
  The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.
• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• TRANSLUCENT
  translucere to shine through; trans across, through = lucere to 1. Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent. 2. Transparent; clear. "Fountain or fresh current . . . translucent, pure."
• PAPER
  1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• TRANSLUCENTLY
  In a translucent manner.
• FINISHED
  Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work , work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.
• PAPERWEIGHT
  See N
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• BLOTTING PAPER
  A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
• NOTE PAPER
  Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
• HIGH-FINISHED
  Finished with great care; polished.
• SUBTRANSLUCENT
  Not perfectly translucent.
• CASSE PAPER
  Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
• ALPHA PAPER
  A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.
• JOSS PAPER
  Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.
• UNFINISHED
  Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.
• TOUCH-PAPER
  Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
• OZONE PAPER
  Paper coated with starch and potassium iodine. It turns blue when exposed to ozone.>-- also called starch-iodide paper -->
• SEMITRANSLUCENT
  Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.