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PRONUNCIATION OF GOLDBEATER'S SKIN

goldbeater's skin  [ˈɡəʊldˌbiːtəz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GOLDBEATER'S SKIN

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Goldbeater's skin is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GOLDBEATER'S SKIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Goldbeater's skin

Goldbeater's skin—the outer membrane of a calf's intestine—is a parchment traditionally used in the process of making gold leaf by beating, reducing gold into mere 1 μm-thick leaves. Up to 120 sheets of gold laminated with goldbeater's skin can be beaten at the same time, since the skin is thin, elastic and does not tear under heavy goldbeating. To manufacture goldbeater's skin, the gut of oxen is soaked in a dilute solution of potassium hydroxide, washed, stretched, beaten flat and thin, and treated chemically to prevent putrefaction. A pack of 1,000 pieces of goldbeater's skin requires the gut of about 400 oxen and is only one inch thick.

Definition of goldbeater's skin in the English dictionary

The definition of goldbeater's skin in the dictionary is animal membrane used to separate sheets of gold that are being hammered into gold leaf.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GOLDBEATER'S SKIN


afters
ˈɑːftəz
banisters
ˈbænɪstəz
bitters
ˈbɪtəz
butters
ˈbʌtəz
fajitas
fəˈhiːtəz
forequarters
ˈfɔːˌkwɔːtəz
gangbusters
ˈɡæŋbʌstəz
headquarters
ˌhɛdˈkwɔːtəz
headwaters
ˈhɛdˌwɔːtəz
hindquarters
ˈhaɪndkwɔːtəz
hipsters
ˈhɪpstəz
jitters
ˈdʒɪtəz
letters
ˈlɛtəz
Masters
ˈmɑːstəz
out-quarters
ˈaʊtˌkwɔːtəz
Pointers
ˈpɔɪntəz
quarters
ˈkwɔːtəz
secateurs
ˈsɛkətəz
trotters
ˈtrɒtəz
waters
ˈwɔːtəz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GOLDBEATER'S SKIN

gold-miner
gold-mining
gold-of-pleasure
gold-plate
gold-plated
gold-rimmed
gold-rimmed glasses
gold-rimmed spectacles
goldarn
Goldbach´s conjecture
goldbrick
goldbug
goldcrest
golden
golden age
golden alexanders
golden aster
golden boy
golden calf
golden chain

WORDS THAT END LIKE GOLDBEATER'S SKIN

banana skin
browser skin
combination skin
cowskin
foreskin
get under one´s skin
goose skin
hyson skin
jump out of one´s skin
lambskin
leopardskin
oilskin
Ruskin
sheepskin
skin
snakeskin
stressed skin
thick skin
thin skin
wolfskin

Synonyms and antonyms of goldbeater's skin in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «goldbeater's skin» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

金箔匠的皮肤
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la piel del goldbeater
570 millions of speakers

English

goldbeater´s skin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

goldbeater की त्वचा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجلد goldbeater ل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

синюги
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

baudruches
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোল্ডবিটারের ত্বক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

baudruches
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kulit pengilat emas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Goldschlägerhäutchen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ゴールドビーターの肌
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

goldbeater 의 피부
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kulit emas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người ép vàng da của
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தங்கப்பாளரின் தோல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोल्डबीटरची त्वचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Altın yiyici derisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pelle di battiloro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

błon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

синюги
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bășici
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεμβράνες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

goldbeater se vel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

guldslagarhinna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gulls hud
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of goldbeater's skin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOLDBEATER'S SKIN»

The term «goldbeater's skin» is normally little used and occupies the 150.837 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOLDBEATER'S SKIN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «goldbeater's skin» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «goldbeater's skin» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about goldbeater's skin

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOLDBEATER'S SKIN»

Discover the use of goldbeater's skin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to goldbeater's skin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Goldbeater's skin: poems
"The poetry of G C Waldrep is a prolific liturgy, intense and conversational by turns.
George Calvin Waldrep, 2003
2
Pharmacognosy
Tannins (Phenolic Compounds) : (a) Goldbeater's skin test : Add 2 % hydrochloric acid to a small piece of goldbeater's skin, rinse it with distilled water and place in the solution to be tested for five minutes. Then give wash of distHled water and ...
Nirali Prakashan, 2009
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Zeppelins
Goldbeater's skin — the outer membrane of calf's intestine — is a parchment traditionally used in the process of reducing gold into mere 1μm-thick leaves. Up to 120 sheets of gold laminated with goldbeater's skin can be beaten at the same  ...
By Wikipedians
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Popular Science
Strip of goldbeater's skin ready to be '* cemented inside the gasbag IN A workroom as clean as a hospital, at Akron, Ohio, 300 women and girls are carefully cementing a fabric of goldbeater's skin inside the gasbags of America's third giant ...
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The Aeronautical Journal
Another advantage of goldbeater's skin balloons is that they do not easily heat, while the ordinary varnished balloons are notorious for heating. The former can, therefore, be stowed away with safety. In the issue of this journal for October, 1899 ...
‎1897
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Journal of the American Chemical Society
... the osmotic effect first increases, then falls off, then increases again. These effects are readily shown in the following tables and curves. Table I Osmosb of Acids of Various Concentrations with Calf's Bladder and Goldbeater's Skin" (In ...
‎1922
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Popular Science Monthly
Membrane from Ox to Make New Dirigible Safe Strip of goldbeater's skin ready to be " cemented inside the gasbag IN A workroom as clean as a hospital, at * Akron, Ohio, 300 women and girls are carefully cementing a fabric of goldbeater's  ...
‎1922
8
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
The herein described method of manufacturing fabric for the gasbags of airships or balloons which consists in proofing a fabric to constitute a basic material, applying a single layer of goldbeater's skin as a lining for the basic material, and  ...
‎1919
9
Dialysis: History, Development and Promise
In contrast to Abel, who used collodium (Latin for “collodion”) membrane tubes for dialysis, Necheles preferred the less fragile Goldschla'gerhaut (goldbeater's skin) . This organic material was made from the serosa of the calf appendix.
Todd S. Ing, Mohamed A. Rahman, Carl M. Kjellstrand, 2012
10
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
The herein described method of manufacturing fabric for the gasbags of airships or balloons which consists in proofing n fabric to constitute a basic material, applying a single layer of goldbeater's skin as a lining for the basic material, and  ...
United States. Patent Office, 1919

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOLDBEATER'S SKIN»

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Stories from the history of science: the discovery of the stratosphere
Initially these were of laquered paper, or the charmingly named goldbeater's skin; lets throw in the name Léon Teisserenc de Bort at this point; ... «ScienceBlogs, Feb 15»
2
Keeping alive a dwindling traditional gold craft
The tablets are beaten in a goldbeater's skin. While the traditional skin is that of a calf's intestine, Achari says he uses camel skin because it ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 14»
3
A Little Free Library opens on Westport Island
... "The Night Counter" by Alia Yunis, "Goldbeater's Skin" and "Southern Workers and the Search for Community" by G. C. Waldrep III, "The Book ... «Wiscasset Newspaper, Jun 14»
4
Speaker describes preserving medieval texts
For mending purposes, she uses transparent membranes like goldbeater's skin — the outer membrane of ox intestine — and fish skin, which is ... «The Brown Daily Herald, Mar 13»

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