dado — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The section of a pedestal above the base.

2. The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.

   Examples

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   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.

   Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.

3. A rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

   Examples

   Next, cut stopped dadoes in the shelf and the underside of the top for the vertical dividers.

Verb

1. To furnish with a dado.

   Usage

   • Transitive

2. To cut a dado.

   Usage

   • Transitive

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   wainscot

   Broader terms

   panel

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

   Broader terms

   sectionsegment

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

   Broader terms

   groovechannel

Verb

1. provide with a dado

   Broader terms

   supplyproviderenderfurnishoffer

   Examples

   The owners wanted to dado their dining room

2. cut a dado into or fit into a dado

   Broader terms

   groove