honeycomb
honeycomb
Definition
honey·comb (hun′ē kōm′)
noun
- the structure of six-sided wax cells made by bees to hold their honey or eggs
- anything like this in structure or appearance
Etymology: ME hunicomb < OE hunigcamb < hunig, honey + camb, comb
transitive verb
- to cause to have many holes like a honeycomb; riddle
- to permeate or undermine honeycombed with intrigue
intransitive verb
to become riddled with holes like a honeycomb
adjective
of, like, or patterned after a honeycomb
honeycomb
Synonyms
honeycomb
Usage Examples
Object
- gorge: Cresswell Crags ' is a limestone gorge honeycombed with caves and smaller fissures.
- reef: Intertidal seagrass beds and honeycomb worm reefs are susceptible to damage by trampling and visitor pressure.
- appearance: Under the microscope, cancellous bone has a honeycombed appearance because it is laced with trabeculae that greatly increase surface area.
Converse of object
- make: If the surface is too sticky the component building block molecules won't circulate and find their complementary bonding partners to make the honeycomb.
- involve: They are in fact, more complex structures involving a honeycomb of cracks and crevices in which bacteria thrive.
- build: This that we are now created the body, cell by cell, like bees building a honeycomb.
Adjective modifier
- ceramic: The metals are deposited as thin layers onto a ceramic honeycomb.
Modifies a noun
- grille: On Zs, this is a complete one piece black plastic shroud with a honeycomb grille.
- worm: Honeycomb worm reefs: These are golden honeycomb-like mounds, 1-2 feet, high found on the shore made by marine worms.
- sandwich: Petras, A. , Sutcliffe, M.P.F. Failure mode maps for honeycomb sandwich panels.
- core: The void between the skins is infilled with a honeycomb core material which is bonded to both inside faces of the zintec steel sheets.
- panel: Five honeycomb impact protection panels use our ceramic coated composite mesh for extra performance.
- structure: In the middle space it has a honeycomb structure, through which is mingled the bone marrow.
Noun used with modifier
- aluminum: This is a sample which shows the compressive, shock absorbing strength of an aluminum honeycomb panel.
- paper: As well as displaying the Ultra Board Range of lightweight paper honeycomb boards, Dufaylite will also be launching PRINT KITS.
- metal: Lu, T.J. Heat transfer efficiency of metal honeycombs.
Preposition: of
- crack: They are in fact, more complex structures involving a honeycomb of cracks and crevices in which bacteria thrive.
- cell: Here he has uncovered a magnificent palace of late republican Rome - with a honeycomb of slaves cells underneath the dining room floor.
- tunnel: In these two cases the badgers had created a honeycomb of tunnels which were an estimated 20 meters in length.
Preposition: with
- cave: A narrow beach running round a rocky promontory, honeycombed with caves, viewed from the sea.
honeycomb Quotes
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Browse dictionary entries near honeycomb
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- honey bear
- honey badger
- honey
- honewort
- honesty
- honeycombed
- honeycreeper
- honeydew
- honeydew melon
- honeyeater
- honeyed
- honeyguide
- honeylocust
- honeymoon
- Honeypots or Honeynets
