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databased

databased is the simple past and past participle of database.

Meaning of database

Verb

database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)

  1. (transitive) To enter (data) into a database.
    • The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5

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Adjective

databased (not comparable)

  1. Entered into a database.
    • As the players sit around the playing table, the casino is able to get database images and then use the technology to set off an alert when a face scan of a known cheater matches that of a databased image.2004, Howard Safir, Ellis Whitman, Security: Policing Your Homeland, Your State, Your City, New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page unknown
    • Now, the Bug Closet has one of the largest completely databased collections in the world. Shawn Kelly, the collection manager, said the collection currently contains more than 500,000 specimens that have been pinned, labeled and archived.2016 June 8, Joshua Lim, “UCF's Bug Closet: One of the largest databased collections in the world”, in Orlando Sentinel

Questions about databased

What does databased mean?
Databased means entered into a database.
What is databased the simple past and past participle of?
Databased is the simple past and past participle of database.
What part of speech is databased?
Databased is an adjective.

Words near databased in the dictionary

  1. database models
  2. database publishing
  3. database transaction
  4. database transactions
  5. database-first
  6. databased
  7. databaseless
  8. databaselike
  9. databases
  10. databasey
  11. databasing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: databased (page history and authors); database (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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