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to laminate

to laminate

3 4.9
To join several thin layers together to make a new material
  • verb
  • /ˈlæməˌneɪt/
translation icon : laminar
  • The teacher showed the students how to laminate important documents for longevity.
  • laminate layers

And I've never laminated plywood, so I was very impressed by the product how it looks.

Examples

  • What I'm going to do first is laminate them in place, pressing the hairs down.

  • In early 1998, I laminated the two together to make this single piece.

    Blog text (6)

  • Yeah, when you get your yacht, you can laminate them and put them in the floorboards.

  • Tuareg knife handles are constructed by laminating together discs.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Beth drifted through raw-smelling piles of green wood and unassembled white-laminated slabs that would be tables in the soon-to-be-completed restaurant.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The propeller reproductions were constructed by laminating spruce boards of the same dimensions as the originals, then roughing out the propeller shape.

    Academic text (2003)

  • To protect the artwork from damage, she decided to laminate the prints before displaying them.

  • They will laminate the wooden boards together to create a sturdy shelving unit.

Synonyms

to glue
vsto laminate
75 1.0

To join things using a sticky substance

forms a single material by bonding many thin stacked layers
to layer
vsto laminate
64 3.4

To put materials in levels one on top of another

binds those levels together into one solid material by bonding
to ply
vsto laminate
  • Specialized
1 7.3

To join threads, strands and layers into stronger material

uses adhesive bonding of thin sheets rather than twisting or weaving

Compounds

plastic laminate
1 3.7

A hard, easy to clean surface made of layers of plastic for furniture or countertops

How Layered

to laminate
3 4.9
to overlay
11 4.2

Surface Forms

laminate infinitive
laminated past
laminated past participle
laminating present participle
laminates third person singular

Morphology

laminate = lamina (semi-transparent) = lamin + ate

Formed by suffixation of '-ate' to the noun 'lamina' meaning 'layer'; the composition is transparent in sense but uses a technical root.

Etymology

Laminate comes from the Latin lamina, 'thin plate' or 'layer', and it carries the idea of joining many thin plates. So to laminate something is to bond several thin layers together to make one stronger material.