name
Meaning 1
A surname from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
tenon
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.
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/ˈtɛn.ən/
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rhymes with -ɛnən
noun
Meaning 2
A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 3
To make into a tenon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part.
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verb
Meaning 4
To fit with tenons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 5
a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: projection
History
Etymology
From Middle English tenoun, tenown, tenon, from Anglo-Norman tenoun, from Old French tenon.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: шип (šip) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Bulgarian: цапфа (capfa) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Chinese Mandarin: 榫頭 /榫头 (sǔntou) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Chinese Mandarin: 凸榫 (tūsǔn) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Chinese Mandarin: 接榫 (jiēsǔn) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Czech: čep — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Finnish: tappi — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Finnish: vaarna — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- French: tenon — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Galician: espiga — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Galician: espigo — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Galician: espigón — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- German: Zapfen — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Greek: μόρσο (mórso) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Hebrew: סִין (sin) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Hebrew: שֵׁן (shen) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Japanese: ほぞ (hozo) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Māori: arero — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Polish: czop — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Russian: ца́пфа (cápfa) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Russian: шип (šip) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Russian: вту́лка (vtúlka) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Swedish: tapp — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Swedish: spont — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Turkish: zıvana — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Ottoman Turkish: زوانه (zıvana) — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it
- Welsh: tyno — projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it