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Definition: Inlay |
InlayNoun1. (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place. 2. A decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface. Verb1. Decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inlay" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The planing and relaying of the wearing course and base course. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | In dentistry, a filling that is made outside the tooth to correspond with the form of a cavity and then cemented into the tooth. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | In dentistry, a filling first made to correspond with the form of a dental cavity and then cemented into the cavity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | An electronic method of combining in one picture selected areas of two pictures obtained from separate sources, the required areas of each picture being determined by the shape and position of an opaque mask being placed in a silhouette generator. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Inlay |
| English words defined with "inlay": damascene ♦ enamel, Enlay ♦ hatch ♦ Incrust, Inlaied, Inlayer, Inlaying ♦ parqueterie, parquetry, Pietra dura ♦ Sorrento work. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inlay": MARQUETRY WORKER ♦ prosthetic restoration. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "inlay": marquetry. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Inlay" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (inlay), German (inlay). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. Inlay room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Inlay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.04% of the time. "Inlay" is used about 67 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) | 91.04% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.46% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.49% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "inlay": Inlay Casting Wax. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "inlay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), zbukurim (adornment, beautifying, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, enrichment, fallal, festoon, finery, flower, garnish, garniture, glorification, marquetry, onlay, ornament, ornamentation, rosace, set off, titivation), vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, raceme, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack), aplikacion. (various references) | |
Arabic | حشوة ضرس, تطعيم (graft, inoculation, transplantation), ترصيع (setting), طعم (diet, engraft, feed, fill, implant, inoculate, keep, nourish, relish, savor, savour, taste, transplant, troll), رصع (beset, embay, insert, intersperse, recess, set, stud, trim), شىء مطعم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | украсявам с инкрустация, врязвам (incise, inscribe, intaglio, notch), апликация (application), апликирам, инкрустация (incrustation, inlaid work), инкрустиран предмет, инкрустирам (encrust, set), инлей, излята пломба. (various references) | |
Chinese | 镶嵌细工, 嵌 (deep valley). (various references) | |
Czech | intarzie, inkrustovat, inkrustace, vykládat (construe, discharge, narrate, panel, talk), vykládaná práce. (various references) | |
Danish | indlaegning (inlaid work), skabelonindblænding. (various references) | |
Dutch | inzet (kick-off), insnijden (incising, intersection), inlegstukje (inlaid work), methode met elektronische maskers. (various references) | |
Farsi | چیززرنشان(.n), گوهرنشان کردن , طلاکوبی , خاتم کاری کردن , خاتم کاری , درچیزی کارگذاشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | upottaa (dip, immerse, sink), paikkakuva. (various references) | |
French | inlay, incrustation (cut in, incrustation, insertion). (various references) | |
German | einlegearbeit (inlaid work, marquetry), inlay. (various references) | |
Greek | ένθεμα (inlaid work), ποίκιλμα (flourish), διαποικιλλώ (interlard), ψηφιδωτό (marquetry, mosaic), ψηφίδω (tessellate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משבצת (brocade, panel, setting, texture), לשבץ (checker, embed, embroider, fix in, insert, ornament), לרצוף (pave), שבוץ (incrustation, insertion, setting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | intarzia (marquetery, marquetry, marquetry inlay), faberakás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menatah, menata (organize, put in order). (various references) | |
Italian | intarsio (marquetry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 象眼 (inlaying), 象嵌 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞうが" (inlaying). (various references) | |
Korean | 상감세공. (various references) | |
Manx | grainnaghey (carve, carving, chase, engrave, grave, graving, incise, inscribe, sculpture, tool). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inlayay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incrustar (crust, encrust, fur, imbed, ingraft), incrustao (incrustation), incrustação (accretion, build-up, build-up effect, crud, crud deposits, embossing, encrustation, fouling, fur, incrustant, incrustation, inlaid work, scale, scale crust, scale deposit, scaling, wart, water scale), obturao, obra de embutimento, mosaico (mosaic, puzzles), marchetar, embutir (chase, embed, flush, imbed, mortice, mortise), colocar tacos. (various references) | |
Romanian | intercala (insert, intercalate, interject, interpolate), incrustare, incrustaţie (incrustation, marquetry), incrusta, mozaicar, marchetare, marcheta. (various references) | |
Russian | инкрустация (encrustation, incrustation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umetnuti (infix, insert, intercalate, interpolate, interpose, parenthesize, put in, sandwich, spatchcock, stick in), umetak (bushing, filler, gusset, hairpiece, insert, insertion, inset, parenthesis, tab), obložiti (coat, cover, encase, incase, overlay, panel, plate, revet, sheathe). (various references) | |
Spanish | insertos electrónicos, incrustar (embed, enchase, encrust, incrust), incrustación (fur, incrustation, inset, overlay, scale, scurf), taracear, taracea, poner una incrustación, hacer una incrustación, embutir, embutido (inlaid, inlaying, sausage). (various references) | |
Swedish | intarsia, inlagt arbete, inläggning (marquetry, souse), inlägga (encase, put in), trickmixning med schablon, tandfyllning, lägga in (case, cure, encase, incase, inject, instal, install, lay on, pickle, put in). (various references) | |
Thai | สารอุ"ฟัน (ทางการแพทย์), การฝัง, ฝัง (embed in, imbed, lodge). (various references) | |
Turkish | parke kaplamak, parke (hardwood, parquet), mozaik (mosaic), kakmak (beetle, push), kakmacılık (intarsia, relief work, tarsia), kakma işlemek, kakma işi (damascening, inlaid work, marquetry, repousse), dolgu (core, fillet, filling, plug, stopping, stuffing, wadding), döşemek (appoint, floor, furnish, lay down, spread, upholster, veneer), çerçevelemek (border, enchase, enframe, frame). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gaюlamak (encrust). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інкрустувати (encrust), інкрустація (incrustation), мозаїка (mosaic, tessellation), покривати мозаїкою. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inlay": inlayer, inlayers, inlaying, inlays. (additional references) | |
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"Inlay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: analy, Anelay, Anlaby, Ginley, Ijlal, Ilhamy, illah, illau, Illya, inah, inany, inay, iniap, inleu, inley, inloo, inmac, innay, inpay, Insley, nilas, Onlaf, onlay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-y" | |
-1 letter: anil, ayin, inly, lain, liny, nail. | |
-2 letters: ail, ain, ani, any, lay, lin, nay, nil, yin. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, an, ay, in, la, li, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-y" | |
+1 letter: gainly, hyalin, inlays, laying, litany, mainly, vainly, zanily. | |
+2 letters: acyloin, alienly, alimony, allying, anality, angrily, anility, anticly, bairnly, cannily, claying, cynical, dandily, elysian, faintly, fancily, finally, flaying, handily, hyaline, hyalins, inanely, inaptly, inlayer, ladykin, laniary, lankily, lazying, mangily, manlily, naively, nastily, nattily, nylghai, plainly, playing, pliancy, ptyalin, rainily, riantly, saintly, slaying, snakily, tawnily, yawling, yealing. | |
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