Tom used a piece of emery to smooth the rough edge of the metal.
Source: tatoeba (13603050)
Emery
/ˈɛm(ə)ɹi/
Synonyms for "emery" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesabrasive materialmineral
More specific
4 entriesemery clothemery paperemery wheelmagnetite bearing corundum
Collocations
6 entriesemery boardemery clothemery gritemery paperemery powderemery wheel
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesemery boardemery clothemery powder
Translations
6 translations across 5 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 埃默里 name (male given name)
French
2 entries- Aymeric name (male given name)
- Émeric name (male given name)
German
1 entries- Emmerich name (male given name)
Hungarian
1 entries- Imre name (male given name)
Italian
1 entries- Amerigo name (male given name)
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