matité
English translation: from : matte
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| 23:50 Jun 20, 2005 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Description of a work of art - a painting | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Ghyslaine LE NAGARD New Caledonia | ||||||
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| 5 +5 | mattness |
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| 5 +4 | matteness |
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| 4 | from : mat |
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| 3 | matite |
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| 3 | mat effect |
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| matité matite Explanation: Don't know if this will help, but there's a hilariously bad electronic translation on painting at the foolowing site, and teh machine came up with "matite". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 mins (2005-06-20 23:56:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I shouldn\'t make fun, not after finding two spelling mistakes in the above statement. Reference: http://www.dalu.it/x-manuing_matite.htm |
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25 mins confidence:
| matité mat effect Explanation: gloss, satin and mat effect |
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25 mins confidence:
| matité from : mat Explanation: You're right nothing to do with dull or dullness mat(e) = as in flat when talking about paint "mat(e)" is the adjective "matité" is the noun coming from the adjective if you ever bought paint you have the choice between, high gloss, gloss, semi-gloss, satin, semi-flat,flat and a few others. It goes from very shiny to absolute flat non reflective paint. "mat" is totally flat But I have to admit that is it rather difficult to translate this in English. the "flat effect" would work. Someone else might have a better suggestion. |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4| matité matteness Explanation: that would be in art then.... as in: In 1914, he derided the fashion of 30 years earlier for matte paintings by ... paintings of this period are matte, but the exact degree of matteness ... aic.stanford.edu/jaic/articles/jaic32-02-004_4.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs 48 mins (2005-06-21 02:39:14 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- the adjective is matte and the noun would be matteness |
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