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filament
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin f?l?mentum, from Late Latin f?l? (“to spin, draw out in a long line”), from Latin f?lum (“thread”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?l?m?nt/
Noun
filament (plural filaments)
- A fine thread or wire.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
- solar filament
- galaxy filament
- the Ursa Major Filament
- (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
Translations
Anagrams
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Danish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.
Noun
filament n (singular definite filamentet, plural indefinite filamenter)
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Declension
References
- “filament” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.
Noun
filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament or filamenter, definite plural filamenta or filamentene)
- a filament
References
- “filament” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin f?l?mentum.
Noun
filament n (definite singular filamentet, indefinite plural filament, definite plural filamenta)
- a filament
Romanian
Etymology
From French filament, from Latin filamentum.
Noun
filament n (plural filamente)
- filament
Declension
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filigree
English
Alternative forms
- filagree
- fillagree, filligree (archaic)
Etymology
From French filigrane, from Italian filigrana, from Latin f?lum (“thread”) + gr?num (“grain”)
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?f?l.?.??i?/
Noun
filigree (countable and uncountable, plural filigrees)
- A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire.
- 1844, Robert Browning, "The Labratory":
- To carry pure death in an earring, a casket,
- A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!
- 1844, Robert Browning, "The Labratory":
- A design resembling such intricate ornamentation.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 1:
- But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear of her again from this moment to the end of time, and that when the great filigree iron gates are once closed on her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 1:
Translations
Verb
filigree (third-person singular simple present filigrees, present participle filigreeing, simple past and past participle filigreed)
- (transitive) To decorate something with intricate ornamentation made from gold or silver twisted wire.
Translations
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