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🕸️ Netlike pattern 🕸️ Made netlike
to reticulated

to reticulated

7.4
To make a net of lines on something
  • verb
  • /rɪˈtɪkjʊleɪtɪd/
translation icon : reticular
  • Engineers reticulated the pipes to ensure water reached every part of the building.

Examples

  • The artist reticulated the design, creating a beautiful web-like pattern on the vase.

  • Can you reticulate the background for the painting?

  • The leaves were reticulated with fine veins visible under the sunlight.

  • The artist reticulated the canvas with intricate designs.

  • The artist reticulated the design, creating a beautiful web-like pattern on the vase.

  • Engineers reticulated the pipes to ensure water reached every part of the building.

  • The leaves were reticulated with fine veins visible under the sunlight.

Compounds

reticulated python
1 8.0

A very large snake from Southeast Asia with skin like a net that is not venomous

How Netlike

latticed
1 5.6
to reticulated
7.4
lacy
1 3.2
veined
4.4

Surface Forms

reticulated infinitive
reticulated past
reticulated past participle
reticulating present participle
reticulates third person singular

Morphology

reticulated = reticulate (transparent) = reticulate + ed

Past-participle/regular verb morphology: 'reticulate' + '-ed' yields the verb form meaning 'formed into a netlike pattern', which is a direct morphological derivation.

Etymology

The word reticulated used as an action word comes from the Latin reticulum ('little net') and rete ('net'). So to reticulate something is to form or make a web or 'network' of lines, which is why people say engineers or artists 'reticulated' pipes or designs.