Definitions

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  • adjective same as latticed.

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  • adjective Resembling a lattice

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  • adjective having a pattern of fretwork or latticework

Etymologies

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lattice +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The submitted proposals include a range of creative responses to the height restrictions—from a snakelike building by Two Trees to a latticelike design by Starwood.

    Unveiling Park Plans Laura Kusisto 2011

  • -- Street patterns must be easily navigable and latticelike, with blocks that are not too big and intersections that are not too far apart.

    Terms, mind-sets must be changed to encourage and enable more walking in cities Roger K. Lewis 2010

  • The cellular, latticelike construction of these containers — like the cabinet doors found in both studioli — provided a particularly useful figure for memory, permitting discrete bits of information to be stored, recombined, and re-presented to the mind as needed.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • It is a rather wild region which, despite being subject to flooding by the devastating river, is also home to a picturesque scenery made up of ponds and oxbows over which willows cast their latticelike foliage.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • It is a rather wild region which, despite being subject to flooding by the devastating river, is also home to a picturesque scenery made up of ponds and oxbows over which willows cast their latticelike foliage.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • The map is fashioned from steel rods, welded together, latticelike.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • But the coincidence of maps, girls, and rocketfalls has entered him silently, silent as ice, and Quisling molecules have shifted in latticelike ways to freeze him.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • As she looked on in horrid fascination, she saw the derrick change into a latticelike tower of flame, saw its upper part begin slowly to crumble and disintegrate.

    Flowing Gold Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • The kiln was troublesome at first, Mr. Liu said, and was used only once a year until its walls were reinforced in 2010 with additional insulation on the outside and a new inner wall of bricks placed in a latticelike formation on one end.

    NYT > Home Page By AILEEN JACOBSON 2012

  • "Hey, Wyatt, I look just like Spider-Man," he called out to his 3 1/2-year-old son as he clambered along the station's latticelike framework.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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