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Definitions: Dado |
DadoNoun1. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dado" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Dado \Da"do\, noun; plural Dadoes. [Italian dado die, cube, pedestal; of the same origin as English die, noun See Die, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
dAdo | English | Deoxyadenosine | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DadoSynonym: wainscot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Base | Noun: base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan; foundation; (support); substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dado |
| English words defined with "dado": dado plane, Dadoes. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dado": corner-block cutter, CORNER-BRACE-BLOCK-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ FRAME-TABLE OPERATOR, framing-mill operator. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dado" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (Ayah, baby sitter, childminder, nanny, nurse, nut, screw), Italian (dado, dice, die, nut), Portuguese (chummy, dado, data, datum, die, given, sociable), Spanish (cubes, dice, die, fleer, freewill, geranium, given, gratuity, jaw vice, laid, landed, leaded, taken, treat). |
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Movie/TV Titles | ¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer? (1951) Dado (1989) | |
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| "Dado" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.74% of the time. "Dado" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.74% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dado" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dado | Last name | 130 | 57,773 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "dado": dado plane. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dado | 79 |
dado blade | 50 |
dj dado | 10 |
dado dolabella | 8 |
dado rails | 7 |
dado saw blade | 7 |
dado shims | 6 |
dado jig | 5 |
dado topic | 4 |
dado electronico | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dado"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjedh vanat, zgjedh kllapë femër, veshje muri (wall covering), vesh muri me pllaka, thembrat (die). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цокъл (die, pedestal, socket, socle, washboard), ламперия (paneling, panelling, wainscoting), плоската част на пиедестал. (various references) | |
Chinese | 达多. (various references) | |
Danish | sokkelflade. (various references) | |
Dutch | teerling (die), stiep (die, stereotype), por (die, push), poer (die), klip (breaker, cliff, die, ledge, reef, scum breaker, skerry), halve hoogte. (various references) | |
French | de en maconnerie, cimaise. (various references) | |
German | Würfel (bone, cube, cubes, dice, die, ivory, sugar, thimble), Sockelbereich, paneel (dash-board, panel, paneling, wainscot), basis (base, base of a geometrical figure, basement, basis, bottom, foot, footing, foundation, kernel, peripheral hem, radix, root, skirt, substratum). (various references) | |
Greek | κάτω μέροσ του τοίχου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | párkányzatok közti falsík, alapkocka. (various references) | |
Italian | dado (dice, die, dot, female screw, nut). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adoday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dado (chip, chummy, data, datum, dice, die, dot, given, sociable), rapé (snuff). (various references) | |
Romanian | soclu (base, bed, bottom, footing, pedestal, socle, truss), piedestal (base, foot, leg, pedestal, plinth), panel (panel). (various references) | |
Russian | цоколь (cap, die, seating, socle), выбирать пазы, панель (baseboard, bay, pane, panel, pavement, wainscot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | donji deo stuba. (various references) | |
Spanish | friso (baseboard, frieze). (various references) | |
Swedish | sockel (base, cap, nipple, pedestal, plinth, skirting, socle, toeboard), bröstpanel. (various references) | |
Turkish | taban taşı. (various references) | |
Ukranian | цоколь (base, plinth, socket, socle), обшивати панеллю, панель (pane, panel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dado": dadoed, dadoes, dadoing, dados. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dado": hacendado, haciendado. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dado": hacendados, haciendados. (additional references) | |
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"Dado" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adado, Addawo, addio, addo, Addu, amd, cado, Dabdoub, dabo, D'abo, Daddi, daddt, dadi, dadod, dadoe, dadok, dadol, D'adone, dador, dadot, dadox, da-dt, D'agde, daho, Dahok, daio, D'ajou, Dalo, dao, daoh, dapo, dardo, dato, Davox, dazo, ddo, dedo, deod, diado, diddo, didi, didio, didot, didso, dijo, diod, Drasdo, duddu, Dudot, dudu, duod, dydon, fado, pado. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dado" (pronounced dā"dō') |
| 3 | -ā" d ō' | tornado. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-o" | |
-1 letter: add, ado, dad, odd. | |
-2 letters: ad, do, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-o" | |
+1 letter: dados, hodad. | |
+2 letters: aboded, adored, aoudad, dadoed, dadoes, deodar, doated, doodad, dorado, dorsad, dotard, gadoid, goaded, goddam, hodads, loaded, ogdoad, outadd, woaded. | |
+3 letters: adenoid, adopted, adorned, android, aoudads, athodyd, avoided, boarded, cladode, dadoing, dagwood, decapod, deodand, deodara, deodars, diamond, donated, doodads, dorados, dotards, duodena, gadoids, goddamn, goddams, godhead, haddock, hoarded, hodaddy, iodated, oddball, ogdoads, outadds, paddock, pomaded, radioed, roadbed, toadied. | |
+4 letters: abounded, accorded, addition, additory, adductor, adenoids, adjoined, adsorbed, afforded, androids, anodized, athodyds, bondmaid, brocaded, cardioid, cladodes, cockaded, coheaded, corraded, daffodil, dagwoods, deaconed, deadbolt, deadlock, deadwood, decapods, defoamed, deodands, deodaras, dialoged, diamonds, dockhand, dockland, dockyard, dogeared, dognaped, dolmades, domesday, doomsday, dooryard, dopehead, dotardly, downland, download, downward, drawdown, drophead, duodenal, goddamns, godheads, haddocks, handhold, hardwood, headword, hebdomad, ladyhood, lambdoid, landlord, maidhood, oddballs, ordained, ordinand, outadded, outdared, outdated, oxidated, paddocks, pandowdy, pardoned, parodied, reloaded, roadbeds, roadside, shaddock, shadowed, sodamide, unloaded, uploaded, woodland. | |
+5 letters: abandoned, absconded, addiction, additions, adduction, adductors, adenoidal, adjourned, adulthood, advocated, andromeda, antidoted, astounded, blockaded, bodyguard, boldfaced, bombarded, bondmaids, broadband, broadened, broadside, canoodled, cardboard, cardioids, cedarwood, cladodial, cloudland, coadapted, coadmired, commanded, cycadeoid, daffodils, dandelion, dartboard, dashboard, deadbolts, deadlocks, deadwoods, decapodan, decorated, dedicator, demagoged, demantoid, deodorant, derogated, desolated, desperado, detonated, diagnosed, dialogued, diamonded, dichondra, diplomaed, disaccord, disavowed, discoidal, dockhands, docklands, dockyards, docudrama, dodecagon, dodgeball, dognapped, domesdays, dominated, doomsdays, dooryards, dopeheads, downdraft, downgrade, downlands, downloads, downwards, dragooned, drawdowns, dreadlock, dromedary, dropheads, duckboard, fanfolded, foredated, forwarded, gadrooned, goddammed, goddamned, hacendado, handholds, hardboard, hardbound, hardihood, hardwoods, headboard, headwords, hebdomads, hodaddies, holidayed, hotheaded, hydathode, iodinated, jeoparded, ladyhoods, landlords, leotarded, maidhoods, middorsal, moderated, modulated, moldboard, mordanted, nonaddict, nongraded, nonleaded, oddsmaker, offhanded, offloaded, ordinands, outadding, outdanced, outtraded, overdared, overladed, paddocked, padlocked, pollarded, poniarded, postdated, ramrodded, readopted, readorned, reboarded, roadsides, roadstead, saddlebow, shaddocks, sideboard, sodamides, stockaded, towheaded, unadorned, uphoarded, videoland, woodlands. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 64 6F |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -.. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01100100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a d o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0064 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38677081 |
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