Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or in correctional or reconstructive surgery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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Synonyms: nesting
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noun
covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: overlapping, lapping
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: covering
History
From French imbrication, from Latin imbricātus, from imbricō, from imbrex. By surface analysis, imbricate + -ion.
