Inlay

Quick meaning: Inlay is a verb meaning (also figuratively) To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.

Meaning

(also figuratively) To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.

More Meanings

1. (dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.
2. The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
3. (dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
4. The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.

Example Sentences

Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.

It is hard to tell whether it was the solid block inlay idea of itself, or else something to help cement to be retained in a cavity, that has brought about inlaying of cavities;

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.”

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.

Word Forms

• inlays
• inlaying
• inlaid

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embedding, filling, compliance, used, pearl, enlay.

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