laminar
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laminar (not comparable)
- Of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- On the wall, in an ornate fixture of darkening bronze, a gas jet burned, laminar and gently singing — adjusted to what scientists of the last century called a "sensitive flame": invisible at the base, as it issues from the orifice, fading upward into smooth blue light that hovers several inches above...
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
- The laminar bands of color to the west bleeding out under the hammered clouds. A sudden violet-colored hooding of the earth.
- In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
- (electronics) In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible
- (anatomy) Describing the layer of capillaries in the choroid of the eye
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Etymology 1 edit
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laminar m or f (masculine and feminine plural laminars)
Etymology 2 edit
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laminar (first-person singular present lamino, first-person singular preterite laminí, past participle laminat)
- (transitive) to laminate
Conjugation edit
infinitive | laminar | ||||||
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gerund | laminant | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | laminat | laminada | |||||
plural | laminats | laminades | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | lamino | lamines | lamina | laminem | lamineu | laminen | |
imperfect | laminava | laminaves | laminava | laminàvem | laminàveu | laminaven | |
future | laminaré | laminaràs | laminarà | laminarem | laminareu | laminaran | |
preterite | laminí | laminares | laminà | laminàrem | laminàreu | laminaren | |
conditional | laminaria | laminaries | laminaria | laminaríem | laminaríeu | laminarien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | lamini | laminis | lamini | laminem | lamineu | laminin | |
imperfect | laminés | laminessis | laminés | laminéssim | laminéssiu | laminessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
affirmative | — | lamina | lamini | laminem | lamineu | laminin | |
negative (no) | — | no laminis | no lamini | no laminem | no lamineu | no laminin |
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- “laminar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: la‧mi‧nar
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laminar (first-person singular present lamino, first-person singular preterite laminei, past participle laminado)
- to laminate
Conjugation edit
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French laminaire.
Adjective edit
laminar m or n (feminine singular laminară, masculine plural laminari, feminine and neuter plural laminare)
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singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | laminar | laminară | laminari | laminare | ||
definite | laminarul | laminara | laminarii | laminarele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | laminar | laminare | laminari | laminare | ||
definite | laminarului | laminarei | laminarilor | laminarelor |
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laminar m or f (masculine and feminine plural laminares)
Verb edit
laminar (first-person singular present lamino, first-person singular preterite laminé, past participle laminado)
- (transitive) to laminate
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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Further reading edit
- “laminar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014