Gild
verb
To cover with a thin layer of gold.
They decided to gild the statue to make it more attractive.
verb
To make something appear more attractive or valuable than it really is.
He tried to gild his resume with false achievements.
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Disapproving
verb
To make something more enjoyable or positive.
The beautiful sunset helped to gild our evening.
verb
To cover with a thin layer of gold.
They decided to gild the statue to make it more attractive.
verb
To make something appear more attractive or valuable than it really is.
He tried to gild his resume with false achievements.
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To make something more enjoyable or positive.
The beautiful sunset helped to gild our evening.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Gold
The verb 'gild' literally involves applying actual gold, highlighting the luxurious or costly aspect.
The artisans meticulously gilded the picture frame.
Pro Tip 2/3Thin Application
Gilding implies a thin, often decorative layer, suggesting surface-level enhancement rather than transformation.
The confectioner gilded the cake with edible gold leaf.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Value
Understanding 'gild' historically enriches its meaning, as it was a valued skill in ancient crafts and arts.
The museum displayed a gilded manuscript from the medieval period.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Gold
The verb 'gild' literally involves applying actual gold, highlighting the luxurious or costly aspect.
The artisans meticulously gilded the picture frame.
Pro Tip 2/3Thin Application
Gilding implies a thin, often decorative layer, suggesting surface-level enhancement rather than transformation.
The confectioner gilded the cake with edible gold leaf.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Value
Understanding 'gild' historically enriches its meaning, as it was a valued skill in ancient crafts and arts.
The museum displayed a gilded manuscript from the medieval period.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Gold
The verb 'gild' literally involves applying actual gold, highlighting the luxurious or costly aspect.
The artisans meticulously gilded the picture frame.
Pro Tip 2/3Thin Application
Gilding implies a thin, often decorative layer, suggesting surface-level enhancement rather than transformation.
The confectioner gilded the cake with edible gold leaf.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Value
Understanding 'gild' historically enriches its meaning, as it was a valued skill in ancient crafts and arts.
The museum displayed a gilded manuscript from the medieval period.
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The thrilling potential...
it's about the whole system, the whole energy system that goes with that lightbulb, and what happened in that gilded age was the creation of an industrial system that every country around the world has now started to emulate. So to get to the appliances, you need to have power stations. From power stations, you need to have infrastructure,
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Corruption, wealth and...
from utilitarian rafts to the Doge's own ostentatious gilded barge. Like a modern day taxi system, gondolas were leased to boatmen who made the rounds of the city's ferry stations. Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city.
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Rives: A mockingbird...
Everybody means everybody, means everybody here. And so maybe I'll build a gilded cage. I'll line the bottom with old notebook pages. Inside it, I will place a mockingbird for -- short explanation, hippie parents. What does a violin have to do with technology? Where in the world is this world heading?
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What I learned at...
he said have been he could have been in a gold gilt room with a chair and you know like I personally thought he should be suspended in the air over the Sistine Chapel like right in between God and Adam and the stark but you know I come from theater so that's my idea but um my
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Welding a Saxon Sword PIPE...
would have been specialists the blades that they used back then were being used in reality they produce these blades using a technique known as pattern welding a process that created blades with beautiful swirling and rippling patterns to fit their golden gilded fittings
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A lyrical bridge between...
than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach you were more marvelous in that simple wish to find a way than the gilded roofs of any destination you could as if, all along, you had thought the end point might be a city with golden domes, and cheering crowds,
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Shilo Shiv Suleman:...
became the most magical thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our fancy watches and our cameras had stopped us from dreaming.
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Juice from Custer's...
service but that's like a seed yeah cavalry everybody see on these are rare yams are really rare it's a beautiful eagle button still has some of the gold gilt on it and the best part is in the middle of the button and
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The myth of King Midas...
Exhausted and hungry from his rampage, Midas picked up a bunch of grapes from his newly gilded fruit bowl. But he nearly shattered his teeth, for the fruit had turned to metal in his mouth.
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The Excavation of...
he discovers a second gild coffin even more magnificent. It has to be hoisted out of the first, revealing decorations of iridescent blue, green, and red glass inlay.
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The thrilling potential...
it's about the whole system, the whole energy system that goes with that lightbulb, and what happened in that gilded age was the creation of an industrial system that every country around the world has now started to emulate. So to get to the appliances, you need to have power stations. From power stations, you need to have infrastructure,
Video examples
Corruption, wealth and...
from utilitarian rafts to the Doge's own ostentatious gilded barge. Like a modern day taxi system, gondolas were leased to boatmen who made the rounds of the city's ferry stations. Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city.
Video examples
Rives: A mockingbird...
Everybody means everybody, means everybody here. And so maybe I'll build a gilded cage. I'll line the bottom with old notebook pages. Inside it, I will place a mockingbird for -- short explanation, hippie parents. What does a violin have to do with technology? Where in the world is this world heading?
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What I learned at...
he said have been he could have been in a gold gilt room with a chair and you know like I personally thought he should be suspended in the air over the Sistine Chapel like right in between God and Adam and the stark but you know I come from theater so that's my idea but um my
Video examples
Welding a Saxon Sword PIPE...
would have been specialists the blades that they used back then were being used in reality they produce these blades using a technique known as pattern welding a process that created blades with beautiful swirling and rippling patterns to fit their golden gilded fittings
Video examples
A lyrical bridge between...
than the gilded roofs of any destination you could reach you were more marvelous in that simple wish to find a way than the gilded roofs of any destination you could as if, all along, you had thought the end point might be a city with golden domes, and cheering crowds,
Video examples
Shilo Shiv Suleman:...
became the most magical thing to me. It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination. So I felt like our cellphones and our fancy watches and our cameras had stopped us from dreaming.
Video examples
Juice from Custer's...
service but that's like a seed yeah cavalry everybody see on these are rare yams are really rare it's a beautiful eagle button still has some of the gold gilt on it and the best part is in the middle of the button and
Video examples
The myth of King Midas...
Exhausted and hungry from his rampage, Midas picked up a bunch of grapes from his newly gilded fruit bowl. But he nearly shattered his teeth, for the fruit had turned to metal in his mouth.
Video examples
The Excavation of...
he discovers a second gild coffin even more magnificent. It has to be hoisted out of the first, revealing decorations of iridescent blue, green, and red glass inlay.
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Quote examples
John C. McGinley
American Actor
If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
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Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
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Janice Dickinson
American Model
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
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Hamlin Garland
American Novelist
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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Dominic Holland
English Comedian
Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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Phaedrus
Roman Poet
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
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Sonia Rykiel
French Designer
I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
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Helen Hayes
American Actress
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
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John C. McGinley
American Actor
If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
Quote examples
Janice Dickinson
American Model
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
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Hamlin Garland
American Novelist
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Quote examples
Dominic Holland
English Comedian
Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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Phaedrus
Roman Poet
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
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Sonia Rykiel
French Designer
I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.
Quote examples
Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Quote examples
Helen Hayes
American Actress
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
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