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Webster 1913 Edition
Domino
Dom′i-no
,Noun.
pl.
Dominos
or (esp. the pieces for a game)
Dominoes
(#)
. 1.
A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Kersey.
2.
A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
3.
A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
4.
A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
5.
A person wearing a domino.
6.
pl.
A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
Hoyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Domino
DOMINO
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Domino
domino
domino
English
Two domino blocks
Noun
domino (plural dominos or dominoes)
- (dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
- (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect
- A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 485:
- 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.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1007:
- Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 485:
- The mask itself.
- The person wearing the costume.
- (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.
| n | name | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | monomino | |
| 2 | domino | |
| 3 | tromino or triomino | |
| 4 | tetromino | |
| 5 | pentomino | |
| 6 | hexomino | |
| 7 | heptomino | |
| 8 | octomino | |
| 9 | nonomino or enneomino | |
| 10 | decomino | |
| 11 | undecomino | |
| 12 | dodecomino |
Synonyms
- (polyomino): 2-omino
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
block used in dominoes
Verb
domino (third-person singular simple present dominoes, present participle dominoing, simple past and past participle dominoed)
- (intransitive) To collapse in the manner of dominoes.
- (transitive) To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.
Quotations
- 2010, Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (ISBN 981426010X), page 107:
- 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.
Translations
collapse in the manner of dominoes
cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).
Noun
domino m (plural dominos)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowing from French domino, from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).
Noun
domino m (plural domini)
Verb
domino
Verb
domino
- first-person singular present indicative of dominare
Latin
Noun
dominō
References
- domino in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- DOMINO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)