A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.

synoniemen: Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands.

Nederlands: Japan

A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building.

synoniemen: Nihon, Nippon.

Nederlands: Nippon
Pools: Cesarstwo Japonii, Japonia, Kraj Kwitnącej Wiśni, Kraj Wschodzącego Słońca, Nippon

Lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer.

Roget 356a: resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber, ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish, copal^†, mastic, magilp^†, lacquer, japan.    artificial resin, polymer; ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite^†, Dowex [Chem], Diaion.    ... meer laten zien

Lacquer with a durable glossy black finish, originally from the orient.

Coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan.

Roget 847: ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize^†.    smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain.    garnish, trim, dizen^†, bedizen, prink^†, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight^†, bedight^†, array; begawd^†, titivate^†; dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.    become etc. (accord with) 23.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 223: cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap etc. 225; encase, incase^†; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard [U.S.].    coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker^†, enamel, whitewash; parget^†; lay it on thick.    overlie, overarch^†; endome^†; conceal etc. 528.    [of aluminum] anodize.    [of steel] galvanize.    ... meer laten zien