Noun: inlay
| Singular | inlay |
| Plural | inlays |
Sample Sentences
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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.” [2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022:]
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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. [1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)]
Nouns inflected like inlay
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Italic *n̥-
5. Latin in-bor.
6. Middle English in-
7. English in-
8. Old English læġ
9. English lay
10. English inlay
11. From in- + lay.
Verbs referencing "inlay"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
innlegg.