| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb honeycomb.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (honeycomb) | 1. Carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed".[Wordnet]. 2. Penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization".[Wordnet]. 3. Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb.[Wordnet]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: honeycombing, honeycombed, honeycombs, honeycomber, honeycombers, honeycombingly and honeycombedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HONEYCOMBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HONEYCOMBING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Biology & Biotechnology | Fissures in the interior of a piece of timber, generally caused by drying stresses resulting from case-hardening. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: honeycomb
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Honeycomb (cereal) | Honeycomb is a breakfast cereal made by Post Cereals. It consists of honey-flavoured corn cereal bits in a honeycomb shape. (references) | ||
| Honeycomb (song) | Honeycomb is a popular song. (references) | ||
| Honeycomb cowfish | The Honeycomb cowfish, Acanthostracion polygonius belongs to the Ostraciidae family and is closely related to boxfish and trunkfish. Its name is derived from the striking pattern of hexagons which cover its body. In cowfishes , these hexagonal patches are used as armor and defend the cowfish, which is a slow coral dweller, from predators. (references) | ||
| Honeycomb Hideout | The Honeycomb Hideout is a fictional clubhouse used in American television promotion of Post Honeycomb cereal during the 1970s and 1980s. The shack was about 8 ft by 8 ft in size and built of scrap lumber. At the Honeycomb Hideout, neighborhood kids would gather, typically two boys and two girls, with the main activity centered on eating Honeycomb cereal. The Honeycomb Hideout was home to a robot. In later commercials, the Hideout would be terrorized by threatening musclemen (the most notorious of them being Andr the Giant), who would invariably proclaim My name is big ____, and I want a big cereal! and attempt to rob the Honeycomb Hideout but would become more amiable after being fed cereal. (references) | ||
| Honeycomb moth | (Zo["o]l.), the wax moth. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Honeycomb tetter | (Med.), favus. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Honeycomb tripe | Lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: honeycomb
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Grecian honeycomb | Industry | Embossed or honeycomb weave. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Honeycomb check | Biology & Biotechnology | Fissures in the interior of a piece of timber, generally caused by drying stresses resulting from case-hardening. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Honeycomb core | Aerospace | A lightweight strengthening material of a structure resembling a honeycomb mesh. See sandwich construction. (references) | |
| Honeycomb core | Engineering & Technology | Core of the sandwich structure in a honeycomb sandwich. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| HONEYCOMB DECAPPER | Occupations | Cuts caps from commercial honeycombs with hand or motor-driven knife, preparatory to extracting honey: Breaks propolis (beeglue) seals with scraper, and lifts frame of honeycomb from super. Moves honeycomb frame into oscillating knife, or cuts caps from frame, using hand knife. Trims superfluous wax from wooden parts with knife and places frame in stand. May place frames of honeycomb in extractor [HONEY EXTRACTOR (food prep., nec)]. (references) | |
| Honeycomb frost | Aerospace | Ice in the soil in insufficient quantity to be continuous, thereby giving the soil an open, porous structure that readily permits water to enter. (references) | |
| Honeycomb grid | Nuclear Energy & Physics | Description of a constructional feature of fast reactor fuel subassemblies. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Honeycomb lung | Medicine | The appearance of multiple small radiolucent shadows on the lung x-ray, representing dilatations of the smaller, less rigid airways or multiple small cysts or cavities. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Honeycomb slip | Insurance | The document with a honeycomb of boxes; the syndicate numbers of insurers on the risk are put in the same order as on the original document. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Honeycomb structure | Mining | An arrangement of soil particles having a comparatively loose, stable structure resembling a honeycomb. See also: soil structure; flocculent structure; single-grained structure. (references) | |
| Honeycomb weathering | Mining | A type of chemical weathering in which innumerable pits are produced on a rock exposure. The pitted surface resembles an enlarged honeycomb and is characteristic of finely granular rocks, such as tuffs and sandstones, inan arid region. (references) | |
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