interthread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interthreads
form: interthreading
form: interthreaded
form: interthreaded
form: inter-thread
Etymology: From inter- + thread.
Senses: examples: text: the interthreading of warp and weft
text: a woven maze of tiny glittering lines, exquisitely inter-threaded
ref: 1913, Algernon Blackwood, chapter 24, in A Prisoner in Fairyland, London: Macmillan, page 335:
text: under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar
ref: 1981, Jack Butler, “Blackberries”, in Miller Williams, editor, Ozark, Ozark, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, page 148:
text: Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.
ref: 2000, Philip Lawson, chapter 24, in Muskrat Courage, New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, page 165:
synonyms: interlace
intertwine
interweave
glosses: To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
examples: text: silk fabrics interthreaded with gold and silver
text: Why wasn’t it a fine thing to be ready with your money? Why wasn’t it good to share your food an’ drink? She had never had the courage to ask Robert to explain, and now as she thought of Mrs. Morphy’s generosity, interthreaded with her thought was a remembrance of this saying of Robert’s.
ref: 1921, Jessie Sime, chapter 45, in Our Little Life, New York: Stokes:
text: 1922, Grant Showerman, Horace and His Influence, London: Harrap, Introduction, p. xiii,
The myriad and mysterious interthreading of motive and action, of cause and effect, presents to the near vision no semblance of a pattern, and the whole web is so confused and meaningless that the mind grows to doubt the presence of design, and becomes skeptical of the necessity, or even the importance, of any single strand.
text: I clearly remember the evenings I went to gather a friend from choir practice. I could hear the music from streets away—interthreaded voices cast into the immense night,
ref: 1995, Jane Brox, chapter 2, in Here and Nowhere Else, Boston: Beacon Press, pages 31–32:
synonyms: blend
combine
mix
glosses: To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
examples: text: the black moor, interthreaded with briny waters
ref: 1876, John Stuart Blackie, chapter 3, in The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands,, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, page 139:
text: The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […]
ref: 1886, Willard Glazier, chapter 11, in Peculiarities of American Cities, Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, page 183:
text: The sensuous reality which interthreads and supports all the gropings of my imagination […]
ref: 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 6, in The World I Live In,, New York: The Century Co., page 77:
text: The divine interthreads the earthly in these plays:
ref: 1931, G. Wilson Knight, chapter 1, in The Imperial Theme,, London: Methuen, published 1951, page 11:
synonyms: crisscross
pervade
run through
glosses: To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
examples: text: […] Christianity is slowly but steadily, and as surely, interthreading her bright woof-lines into the texture of national and political, as well as social life:
ref: 1848 November, Charles Rich, “War,—its Reality and Poetry”, in Western Literary Messenger, volume 11, number 3, page 131:
glosses: To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
examples: text: an immense lake of ceaselessly interthreading grays and silvers
ref: 1977, Michael Bishop, chapter 6, in Stolen Faces, New York: Harper and Row, page 69:
text: […] we know how [every neuron’s] dendrites and axons interthread with other nerve cells.
ref: 1995, Natalie Angier, chapter 9, in The Beauty of the Beastly,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 55:
text: The traditions of thought and practice found today in the region weave together local and exogenous strands, in a variegated fabric […]. Indigenous and exogenous marriage systems, methods of praise and prayer, food and drink taboos, and dress codes all interthread, but not in a static or homogeneous way.
ref: 1997, Parker Shipton, “Bitter Money: Forbidden Exchange in East Africa”, in Roy Richard Grinker, Christopher B. Steiner, editors, Perspectives on Africa, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, page 168:
glosses: To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
examples: text: One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro,
Delicately and imperceptibly,
Now swaying gently in a row,
Now interthreading slow and rhythmically,
ref: 1896, Arthur Symons, “Javanese Dancers”, in Silhouettes, London: Leonard Smithers, page 33:
text: We watched the little double-decked tram-cars gliding by, the opposing, interthreading streams of pedestrians, and a fleet of coal barges coming up the river […]
ref: 1918 November, Henry Beston, “With the American Submarines”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 688:
glosses: To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.