Luster

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc.

   “metallic luster”

2. isim The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.
3. isim Shining light from within, luminosity, brightness, shine.

   “the sun’s luster”

4. isim Shining beauty, splendor, attractiveness or attraction.

   “After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.”

5. isim Shining fame, renown, glory.

   “After the scandal, the idol lost his luster and could only get work in Vegas.”

6. isim Polish, social refinement.

   “Sure, the posh git spoke with fine lustre. ’S all a load of bollocks, though, innit?”

7. isim Any shining body or thing.
8. isim A piece of glass added to a light (especially a chandelier) to increase its luster.

   “Each mortal has his pleasure: none deny Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his ham-pie; Ridotta sips and dances, till she see The doubling lustres dance as fast as she;”

9. isim An ornamental light providing luster, especially a chandelier.

   “The immense room was carpeted, the walls were covered with eighteenth-century panelling, and three electric lustres hung from the ceiling.”

10. isim A substance that imparts luster to a surface, such as polish, gloss, plumbago, glaze, etc.

    “Gabriel coloured as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes. […] When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body.”

11. isim The layer of an object that imparts luster, chiefly with regard to ceramics.
12. isim Clipping of lusterware: highly lustrous ceramics.

    “The whole place was covered with fragments of pottery, mostly very rough, and difficult to identify as to date. Two small lustre shards belong to the ninth or tenth century and a green glaze resembles the output of the kilns found by Sir Aurel Stein on the coast of Makran.”

13. isim A kind of lustrous fabric with a wool weft and cotton, linen, or silk warp, chiefly used for women's dresses.

    “Mrs. McLash was dressed for travelling. She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots […]”

14. isim A glory, an act or thing that imparts fame or renown.
15. fiil To have luster, to gleam, to shine.

    “What bloom, what brightness lusters o’er her cheeks!”

16. fiil To gain luster, to become lustrous.
17. fiil To make illustrious or attractive, to distinguish.

    “Our Puritans have from hence learned to colour and lustre their ugly Treasons... with the cloake of Religion.”

18. fiil To coat with a lustrous material or glaze, to impart physical luster to an object.

    “Peter and Mania found a pensione whose view was of chestnut woods and a horizon looped by peaks lustred with last winter’s snow, distant in time as well as space.”

19. fiil To shed light on, to illustrate, to show.
20. fiil Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew.
21. fiil Synonym of look, to look over, to survey.
22. isim Alternative form of lustrum: A five-year period, especially (historical) in Roman contexts.

    “...thritty yere of vj. lustres...”

23. isim One who lusts, one inflamed with lust.

    “Eumenides But did neuer any Louers come hether?”

24. isim Synonym of den: a dwelling-place in a wilderness, especially for animals.

    “...But, turning to his luster, Calues and Dam, He shewes abhorr'd death, in his angers flame...”

25. özel isim A surname from German.