inlays

Meaning of inlays

verb, 3rd person present
  1. ornament (an object) by embedding pieces of a different material in it, flush with its surface.
    mahogany panelling inlaid with rosewood
plural noun
  1. a design, pattern, or piece of material inlaid in something.
    ivory inlays that decorated wooden furnishings
  2. a filling shaped to fit a tooth cavity.
  3. a printed card or paper insert supplied with a CD, video, etc.

mid 16th century (in the sense ‘lay something in a place in order to hide or preserve it’): from in-2 ‘into’ + lay1.

Information about inlays

  • The singular form of inlays is: inlay.
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Hyphenation of inlays

in-lays

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • inlays is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of inlays

anisyl, snaily

Words that rhyme with inlays

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