Dado
//ˈdeɪdəʊ// name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The section of a pedestal above the base.
- 2 a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it wordnet
- 3 The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
"Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all."
- 4 the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase wordnet
- 5 The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
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- 6 panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall wordnet
Verb
- 1 To furnish with a dado. transitive
- 2 cut a dado into or fit into a dado wordnet
- 3 To cut a dado. transitive
- 4 provide with a dado wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all."
Etymology
From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.
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