About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- imbricate
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

imbricate

 : 
Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Adjective
 : 
im=bri=cate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb imbricate has 2 senses

Adjective imbricate has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

imbricatea. [L. imbricatus, p. p. of imbricare to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. imbrex, -icis, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. imber rain.].
  •  Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Lying over each other in regular order, so as to “break joints,” like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.  [1913 Webster]
  •  In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; as, an imbricated surface; an imbricated pattern.  [1913 Webster]
imbricatev. t. 
     To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

imbricate, v. & adj.
--v.tr. & intr. arrange (leaves, the scales of a fish, etc.), or be arranged, so as to overlap like roof-tiles.
--adj. having scales etc. arranged in this way.

Derivative
imbrication n.
Etymology
L imbricare imbricat- cover with rain-tiles f. imbrex -icis rain-tile f. imber shower
See related words and definitions of word "imbricate" in Indonesian
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion