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How to pronounce moire in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms watered
Type Words
Synonyms watered-silk
Type of cloth, fabric, material, textile

Examples of moire

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The watered finish, also known as moire, is produced by using ribbed rollers.
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Fancy binders with silk-moire linings and archival paper are now available.
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On the exterior the alternating bands of clear and white glass create a nervous moire.
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You can add a few pounds by selecting a heavier fabric such as velvet, satin or moire.
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To produce moire, ribbed rollers are used, and the ribs produce the watermark effect.
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Moire Bagale's father, a photographer and graphic artist, taught her to sew when she was 10.
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Moire is produced from two distinctly different methods of finishing.
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A blue moire cloth immediately picked up the soft blue coloring.
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Moire Bagale models one of her creations.
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  • Silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern
  • In mathematics, physics, and art, a moiru00E9 pattern (/mwu0251u02D0ru02C8eu026A/; French: ) is a secondary and visually evident superimposed pattern created, for example, when two identical (usually transparent) patterns on a flat or curved surface (such as closely spaced straight lines drawn radiating from a point or taking the form of a grid) are overlaid while displaced or rotated a small amount from one another.
  • In textiles, a moire (/u02C8mwu0251u02D0r/ or /u02C8mu0254u02D0r/), less often moiru00E9, is a fabric with a wavy (watered) appearance produced mainly from silk, but also wool, cotton and rayon. The watered appearance is usually created by the finishing technique called calendering...
  • 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
  • Moires (Greek: u039Cu03BFu03AFu03C1u03B5u03C2, "Fates") is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Faistos, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 10,857 (2001). Its area is 182u00A0kmu00B2. The weekly market of the agricultural town of Moires is the largest in the region...
  • A pattern that emerges when two grids are superimposed over one another, usually unintended and undesirable in many applications such as in weaving and screenprinting; Watered silk
  • An undesirable halftone pattern produced by the incorrect angles of overprinting halftone screens.
  • Occurs when screen angles are wrong causing odd patterns in photographs.
  • Undesirable pattern resulting when halftones and screen tints are made with improperly aligned screens, or when a pattern in a photo, such as a plaid, interfaces with a halftone dot pattern.