Definitions for dados

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dados da·do

Spelling: [dey-doh]

IPA: /ˈdeɪ doʊ/

Dados is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in dados (addos).

Definitions for dados

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 dados

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

Examples for dados

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The dado shades are the latest innovation in window decoration.