inlay

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
    — The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”
  2. A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
  3. The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
    — Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.
动词 v.
  1. To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design. also,figuratively
    — The body of the Scriptures hath in it limbs taken from other bodies; and in the vvord of God, are the vvords of other men, other authors, inlaid & inſerted. But, this vvork is onely vvhere the Holy Ghoſt is the VVorkman: It is not for man to inſert, to inlay other vvords into the vvord of God.
  2. To place an inlay in a tooth.
    — Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.

词形变化

inlays present,singular,third-person inlaying participle,present inlaid participle,past inlaid past inlays plural

词汇关系

衍生词
inlayer inlay card pinlay

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Old English læġ
English lay
English inlay
From in- + lay.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Old English læġ
English lay
English inlay
From in- + lay.
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