Enamel vs Whitewash - What's the difference?
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An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
To coat or decorate with enamel.
To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
* Milton
To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
A lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.
* 1952 : For walls plaster gave a smooth white surface; or if it was not sufficiently white, or had become discoloured, it could be brightened up with a coat of whitewash or paint. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England , p. 157.
(sports) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep.
* 2010 , Andrew Miller, Cricinfo :
(obsolete) Any liquid composition for whitening something, such as a wash for making the skin fair.
To paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.
(idiomatic) To cover over errors or bad actions.
(dated) To repay the financial debts of (another person).
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To prevent a team from scoring any runs.
(acting) To choose white film or television actors to portray characters that were Asian, African, or other races.
(pejorative) To make over (an Asian, African, or person of another race, especially a woman) to look Caucasian.
Enamel is a related term of whitewash.
As nouns the difference between enamel and whitewash
is that enamel is an opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects while whitewash is a lime and water mixture for painting walls and fences bright white.As verbs the difference between enamel and whitewash
is that enamel is to coat or decorate with enamel while whitewash is to paint over with a lime and water mixture so as to brighten up a wall or fence.enamel
English
(wikipedia enamel)Noun
Verb
- Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.
- to enamel''' card paper; to '''enamel leather or cloth
Derived terms
* enamelware * porcelain enamel * tooth enamel * vitreous enamelAnagrams
*whitewash
English
(wikipedia whitewash)Noun
(es)- For the first time in a long time, Australia are being threatened with the prospect of a 5-0 whitewash
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Verb
(es)- The houses looked very bright when they whitewashed the whole neighborhood .
- In his sermon, the minister didn't try to whitewash over the sins of his church .