imbrication
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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| imbricate | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | architect relating to or having tiles, shingles, or slates that overlap |
| 2. | botany (of leaves, scales, etc) overlapping each other |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to decorate with a repeating pattern resembling scales or overlapping tiles |
| [C17: from Latin imbricāre to cover with overlapping tiles, from imbrex pantile] | |
| 'imbricately | |
| —adv | |
| imbri'cation | |
| —n | |
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imbrication
1650, from Fr. imbrication, from L. imbricare "to cover with tiles," from imbricem (nom. imbrex) "curved roof tile used to draw off rain," from imber (gen. imbris) "rain," from PIE *mbh- (cf. Skt. abhra "cloud, thunder-cloud, rainy weather," Gk. ombros "rain"), from base *nebh- "moist, water" (see
nebula).
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Example sentences
There are several tailoring techniques, eg, ureteral imbrication or excisional tapering.
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