egg-crated
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of egg-crate
adj
Having a texture with regular indentations similar to that of an egg carton or regular holes in a grid pattern; corrugated or latticed.
adj
Compartmentalized; separated into isolated compartments or components.
adj
Having multiple points of attachment in a lattice-like pattern.
adj
Arranged in a grid pattern; Interleaved.
adv
In separate compartments.
Example Sentences
- "No need for heat-shrink sleeves; egg-crated cavities in the housing give you the insulation you need."
- "Third, the fingerlike projections of the convoluted egg-crated foams are more subject to damage than the flat surface of conventional pads."
- "The fluorescent lighting at this deepest part of the plan is not entirely effective because the egg-crated strips tend to dazzle and to make the crucial bookstock section feel dark in comparison."
- "Some were Shaker oval boxes with lapped fingers tacked into place; some were dovetailed candle boxes; some were boxes bandsawn from solid blocks of wood; and some were jewelry boxes with egg-crated interiors."
- "The TV inside the box was on, flickering shadows on the egg-crated walls."
- "By that date however, the final steps towards the true suspended ceiling had been taken -- from 1947 onwards, standard kits of parts existed from which could be assembled systems of translucent, louvered or egg-crated suspended ceilings with suitable provision for the downward diffusion of conditioned air, either through specialised outlets or (in the louvered versions) over the whole ceiling."