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English

Etymology

From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?b?n/

Noun

sabin (plural sabins)

1. (acoustics) A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
   • 2012, Rupert Christiansen, ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review, Sep 2012:

     Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.

Anagrams

• Bains, Basin, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Nabis, bains, basin, nabis, naibs, nisab, nisba

English

Etymology

From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic ????????? (zayt?n, “Zayton; olive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæt?n/
• Rhymes: -æt?n

Noun

satin (countable and uncountable, plural satins)

1. A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
   • 1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673:

     Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.

Derived terms

Related terms

• sateen

Translations

Adjective

satin (not comparable)

1. Semigloss.

Translations

Verb

satin (third-person singular simple present satins, present participle satining, simple past and past participle satined)

1. (transitive) To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.

Further reading

• satin at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• Astin, Insta, Saint, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, saint, stain, stian, tians, tisan

Cebuano

Etymology

From English satin, from Old French satin, from Italian setino, probably via unattested Late Latin s?t?nus (“silken [cloth]”), from Latin s?t?.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa?tin

Noun

satin

1. satin

Italian

Noun

satin m (invariable)

1. satin

   Synonyms: raso, setino, zetani, (obsolete) zettani

Derived terms

• satinato

Anagrams

• santi, stani

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of satisne.

Adverb

satin (not comparable)

1. introducing questions

References

• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French satin.

Noun

satin n (uncountable)

1. satin

Declension