DADO (dadoes)

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Irregular inflected form: dadoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dado mean? 

• DADO (noun)
  The noun DADO has 3 senses:

1. panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

2. the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase

3. a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it

  Familiarity information: DADO used as a noun is uncommon.

• DADO (verb)
  The verb DADO has 2 senses:

1. provide with a dado

2. cut a dado into or fit into a dado

  Familiarity information: DADO used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DADO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dado; wainscot

Hypernyms ("dado" is a kind of...):

panel (sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something)

Holonyms ("dado" is a part of...):

wall (an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dado" is a kind of...):

section; segment (one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object)

Holonyms ("dado" is a part of...):

footstall; pedestal; plinth (an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dado" is a kind of...):

channel; groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

• DADO (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dado    ... he / she / it dadoes    / dados   
Past simple: dadoed   
Past participle: dadoed   
-ing form: dadoing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a dado

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The owners wanted to dado their dining room

Hypernyms (to "dado" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

carpentry; woodwork; woodworking (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut a dado into or fit into a dado

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dado" is one way to...):

groove (make a groove in, or provide with a groove)

Domain category:

carpentry; woodwork; woodworking (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context 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.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)