Definitions for dado

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dado da·do

Spelling: [dey-doh]

IPA: /ˈdeɪ doʊ/

Dado is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in dado (addo).

Definitions for dado

noun

1. Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
2. the lower broad part of an interior wall finished in wallpaper, a fabric, paint, etc.
3. Carpentry. a groove or rectangular section for receiving the end of a board.

Verb phrases

1. dado in, to insert (a board or the like) into a dado.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a dado.

Origin of dado

1655-65; Italian: die, cube, pedestal, perhaps Arabic dad game

Examples for dado

A gain joint is a dado which runs only partly across one member, X.

Hence, Gianni and dado decided to play a rather morbid joke on their Danish friend.

In using a flower, or other design, for a frieze or dado, they should be conventionalized.

In book shelves a gain gives a better appearance than a dado.

There was the same parquet floor, and dado of shiny pitchpine.

He was close to Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat cars, as well as the Roman Prince dado Ruspoli.

It is the background for the furniture, and should be deeper than the dado or wainscoting.

The dado shades are the latest innovation in window decoration.

Somehow it reminded them of the dado of a nursery wall-paper.

Knife grooves are made in the waste for starting the saw as in the dado.