domino
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dominoes
entertainment
games
geometry
government
lifestyle
mathematics
music
politics
sciences
Etymology: 1801, borrowed from French domino (1771), originally the term for a hooded garment, itself from Medieval Latin domino, oblique case of dominus (“lord, master”); compare Medieval Latin dominicale (“a kind of veil”). By surface analysis, di- + -omino.
Inflected forms:
form: dominos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dominoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dominoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dominoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dominoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dominoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
pos: noun
examples: Dominoes of indiscretions down
Falling all around, in cycles, in circles
Constantly consuming
Conquer and devour
If a domino had four squares on its surface, it would be a tetromino. With five squares, it would be a pentomino—nine, a nonomino, eleven, an unwieldy undecomino!
The Mormon church's past anti-gay positions and its role in financing Proposition 8 – California's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage – may have been the first dominoes to fall around the faithful, but vetting Mitt Romney as a presidential candidate links the straightforward similarities between Mormonophobia and homophobia.
gloss: A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.
pos: noun
gloss: A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
pos: noun
examples: all the women were desirous of having the bundle immediately opened; which operation was at length performed by little Betsy, with the consent of Mr Jones: and the contents were found to be a domino, a mask, and a masquerade ticket.
The chair being announced, she fastened on her mask, and drew her domino round her, it not being her intention to display her splendid and fantastic costume till supper, when all the guests were expected to unmask.
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.
gloss: The mask itself.
pos: noun
examples: He wore a domino, but beneath it could be seen his whiskers, cut after the English fashion, and long and pendent.
gloss: The person wearing the costume.
pos: noun
gloss: A polyomino made up of two squares.
pos: noun
gloss: A mistake in performing.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Any player is liable to make a 'domino' — that is to say, he goes wool-gathering and continues to play when everyone else has stopped. If he does so at a grown-up concert the fault is irredeemable […]
gloss: A person's teeth.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: […] break your dominoes by grinding them that way.
Look here, you chaps, don't you chew it too quick, or you'll break your dominoes on the nails!
gloss: To collapse in the manner of dominoes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A dismasting often means the dominoing of one mast into the other, down through the decks, cannoning the cargo through the hull below, and sinking the ship very quickly.
gloss: To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: dominate
a non domino
pro domino
Derived words: domino computer
domino effect
dominoes
Dominoid
dominolike
domino surgery
domino theory
domino whist
galloping domino
polyomino
triomino
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