veneer
pronunciation
How to pronounce veneer in British English:
UK [vəˈnɪə(r)]
How to pronounce veneer in American English:
US [vəˈnɪr]
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- Noun:
- coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
- an ornamental coating to a building
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- Verb:
- cover with veneer
Word Origin
- veneer
- veneer: [17] Veneer is ultimately the same word as furnish. Both come from Old French fournir, but veneer was routed via German, which borrowed fournir as furniren. The verbal noun derived from this, furnirung, was borrowed into English as faneering in the highly specialized sense ‘provision of a thin surface layer of fine wood’. The noun veneer was a back-formation from this.=> furnish
- veneer (n.)
- 1702, from German Furnier, from furnieren "to cover with a veneer, inlay," from French fournir "to furnish, accomplish," from Middle French fornir "to furnish," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German frumjan "to provide;" see furnish). From German to French to German to English. Figurative sense of "mere outward show of some good quality" is attested from 1868.
- veneer (v.)
- 1728 (earlier fineer, 1708), from German furnieren (see veneer (n.)). Related: Veneered; veneering.
Example
- 1. The veneer of chance can be peeled away .
- 2. Note the thickness of the veneer .
- 3. But under the shiny veneer ran a deep vein of dark emptiness .
- 4. Behind the veneer , commercial interests are vying furiously for gold .
- 5. Clinical nursing care of patients underwent ceramic veneer cosmetology to repair diastema of anterior teeth .