dado

1. 1.

   provide with a dado

   “The owners wanted to dado their dining room”

   Broadersupply

   carpentry

2. 2.

   cut a dado into or fit into a dado

   Broadergroove

   carpentry

Other forms of dado

plural

dadoes

past tense

dadoed·

present participle

dadoing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dado

What does dado mean?

dado means "panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dado?

dado has 2 syllables: da-do. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˈdeɪˌdoʊ/.

What is another word for dado?

Close synonyms include wainscot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dado a common word?

dado is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dado?

17 words rhyme with dado. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.