Porcelain
['pɔːs(ə)lɪn] or ['pɔsəlen]
Definition
(noun.) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic.
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Definition
(n.) Purslain.
(n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. China, china ware.
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Definition
n. a fine earthenware white thin semi-transparent first made in China: china-ware.—adj. of the nature of porcelain.—adjs. Por′celānous Porcellā′neous Por′cellānous.—n. Por′cellanite a very hard impure jaspideous rock.—Cast or Fusible porcelain a milky glass made of silica and cryolite with oxide of zinc; Egg-shell porcelain an extremely thin and translucent porcelain; False porcelain a name given to the artificial or soft-paste porcelain; Frit porcelain a name given to artificial soft-paste English porcelain from its vitreous nature; Tender porcelain a ware imitating hard-paste or natural porcelain.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of porcelain, signifies you will have favorable opportunities of progressing in your affairs. To see it broken or soiled, denotes mistakes will be made which will cause grave offense.
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Examples
- The most important advance in the art was in the invention of the rubber plate for holding the porcelain teeth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These fishes are reared by the Chinese in small ponds, in basins or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In filtration, the water is forced through porcelain or other porous substances which allow the passage of water, but which hold back the minute foreign particles suspended in the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Wedgwood invented the hard porcelain surface, and very many beautiful designs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As in drying clay for brick, so in drying clay for porcelain and pottery generally, great improvements have been made in the drying of the clay, and other materials to be mixed therewith. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Shall it be jewellery or porcelain, haberdashery or silver? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It consists of impressing oil pictures on a bat of glue and then pressing the bat on to the porous unbaked clay or porcelain which transferred the colours. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Still later Hall introduced chalk and powdered limestone into porcelain tubes, gun barrels, and tubes bored in solid iron, which he sealed and brought to very high temperatures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There was a score of candles sparkling round the mantel piece, in all sorts of quaint sconces, of gilt and bronze and porcelain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In 1788 he was made inspector-general of French manufactures, later superintendent of the porcelain works at Sèvres. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Susan Frackelton of the United States invented a portable kiln for firing pottery and porcelain, for which she obtained a patent in 1886. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mrs. Guttingen came into the room early in the morning to shut the windows and started a fire in the tall porcelain stove. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The decomposed felspar of some varieties of granite yields the kaolin used in porcelain manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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