trellis
/ˈtɹɛlɪs/
trellis noun: an outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
Noun
trellis (plural trellises)
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Declaration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 90
- A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
Verb
trellis (third-person singular simple present trellises, present participle trellising, simple past and past participle trellised)
trellis meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
trellis in Hindi
- trellis
- जाली jālī
trellis in Tamil
- கொடுப் பின்னல், வேலிப்பந்தல்
trellis in Malayalam
- trellis, lattice, railing
- അഴി aḻi
trellis in Kannada
- ತಟ್ಟಿ, ಬಳ್ಳಿಯಾಸರೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- trellis in Odia
- ଗୋଡ଼ goṛa
- trellis in Tagalog
- balag
- trellis in Malay
- jejala, turus, junjung
- trellis in Persian
- آلاچیق âlâčiq
Examples of trellis in a sentence
- The vine overran its trellis; the field is overrun with weeds.
- It is an old-fashioned space of pink-and-green trellis carpet and French ormolu, half-concealed by heavy brocade curtains.
- They sat on a bench around a large glass-topped table under a grape-vined trellis.
Synonyms of trellis
Forms of trellis
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trellises |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | trellises |
| present participle | trellising |
| past participle | trellised |
| past | trellised |
Origin of trellis
From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
Words formed from trellis
- trellissing
- trellis drainage
- trellised
- trellis frame
- trellislike
- trellis modulation
- trellis quantization
- trellis rust
- trelliswork
Phrases with trellis
Questions about trellis
- What does trellis mean?
- Trellis means an outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- What is trellis in Hindi?
- Trellis in Hindi is जाली (jālī). See Trellis meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is trellis?
- Trellis can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce trellis?
- Trellis is pronounced /ˈtɹɛlɪs/.
- What is the plural of trellis?
- The plural of trellis is trellises.
Words near trellis in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: trellis (page history and authors); जाली (Hindi) (page history and authors); trellis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അഴി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); trellis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଗୋଡ଼ (Odia) (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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