Tom used a piece of emery to smooth the rough edge of the metal.
Source: tatoeba (13603050)
Emery
//ˈɛm(ə)ɹi//
Synonyms for "emery" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Proper Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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5 entriesderived
11 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 48 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- amaril noun (mineral)
Albanian
1 entries- smeril noun (mineral)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σμύρις noun (mineral)
Arabic
1 entries- سُنْبَاذَج noun (mineral)
Aramaic
2 entries- שָׁמִירָא noun (mineral)
- ܫܡܝܪܐ noun (mineral)
Armenian
2 entries- զմռնիտ noun (mineral)
- հղկաքար noun (mineral)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- sumbata noun (mineral)
- سنباده noun (mineral)
Belarusian
1 entries- нажда́к noun (mineral)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шми́ргел noun (mineral)
Catalan
2 entries- esmeril noun (mineral)
- esmerilar verb (To sand or polish with emery)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 埃默里 name (male given name)
Czech
2 entries- smirek noun (mineral)
- smyrek noun (mineral)
Danish
1 entries- smergel noun (mineral)
Dutch
1 entries- amaril noun (mineral)
Esperanto
2 entries- smirgo noun (mineral)
- smirgi verb (To sand or polish with emery)
Finnish
1 entries- smirgeli noun (mineral)
French
3 entries- Aymeric name (male given name)
- Émeric name (male given name)
- émeri noun (mineral)
German
2 entries- Emmerich name (male given name)
- Schmirgel noun (mineral)
Greek
1 entries- σμύριδα noun (mineral)
Gujarati
1 entries- રેખમાળ noun (mineral)
Hebrew
1 entries- שָׁמִיר noun (mineral)
Hindi
1 entries- एमरी noun (mineral)
Hungarian
1 entries- Imre name (male given name)
Irish
1 entries- éimear noun (mineral)
Italian
3 entries- Amerigo name (male given name)
- smeriglio noun (mineral)
- spoltiglio noun (mineral)
Japanese
1 entries- 金剛砂 noun (mineral)
Karakalpak
1 entries- qayraq qum noun (mineral)
Karakhanid
2 entries- ترپگ noun (mineral)
- تُربِك noun (mineral)
Korean
1 entries- 금강사 noun (mineral)
Middle Armenian
1 entries- զմռնիտեան քար noun (mineral)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- zimpare noun (mineral)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- زیمپارا noun (mineral)
- سمپاره noun (mineral)
Polish
4 entries- szmergiel noun (mineral)
- pokrywać szmerglem verb (To coat with emery)
- pokryć szmerglem verb (To coat with emery)
- szlifować papierem ściernym verb (To sand or polish with emery)
Portuguese
1 entries- esmeril noun (mineral)
Russian
1 entries- нажда́к noun (mineral)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- smírak noun (mineral)
- šmìrgl noun (mineral)
- šmìrgla noun (mineral)
- сми́рак noun (mineral)
Slovak
1 entries- šmirgeľ noun (mineral)
Spanish
2 entries- esmeril noun (mineral)
- esmerilar verb (To sand or polish with emery)
Swedish
1 entries- smärgel noun (mineral)
Tagalog
1 entries- esmeril noun (mineral)
Tatar
2 entries- кайрак комы noun (mineral)
- ком кайрак noun (mineral)
Thai
2 entries- กากกะรุน noun (mineral)
- กากรุน noun (mineral)
Turkish
1 entries- zımpara noun (mineral)
Turkmen
1 entries- gaýrak gumy noun (mineral)
Ukrainian
1 entries- нажда́к noun (mineral)
Uzbek
2 entries- najdak noun (mineral)
- qum qayroq noun (mineral)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đá nhám noun (mineral)
Welsh
2 entries- emeri noun (mineral)
- llathrlwch noun (mineral)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Before painting, Mary rubbed the surface with emery to remove imperfections.
Source: tatoeba (13603051)
Tom carried a small strip of emery in his toolkit for quick touch-ups.
Source: tatoeba (13603052)
It took me from nine to ten days to grind and polish it ready for parabolising and silvering. I did this by hand labour with the aid of emery, but without a lathe. I finally used rouge instead of emery in grinding down the glass, until I could see my face in the mirror quite plain.
Source: wiktionary
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