interleave
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English leave
English interleave
From inter- + leave.
Inflected forms:
form: interleaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interleaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interleaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interleaved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interleaf
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: interleaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interleaf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1754, Samuel Johnson, Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, 28 November, 1754, cited in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Augustine Birrell, New York: Dodge, 1896, Volume 1, p. 225,
Let a Servitor transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references to save time. This will shorten the work and lessen the fatigue.
1794, Robert Burns, Letter to Mr. James Johnson, Dumfries, 1794, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 305,
In the meantime, at your leisure, give a copy of the Museum to my worthy friend, Mr. Peter Hill, bookseller, to bind for me, interleaved with blank leaves, exactly as he did the Laird of Glenriddel’s, that I may insert every anecdote I can learn, together with my own criticisms and remarks on the songs.
The raw morning air whetted his resolute piety; and often as he knelt among the few worshippers at the side-altar, following with his interleaved prayer-book the murmur of the priest, he glanced up for an instant towards the vested figure standing in the gloom between the two candles, which were the old and the new testaments, and imagined that he was kneeling at mass in the catacombs.
gloss: To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had the demon’s own time with my armor, and this delayed me a little. It is troublesome to get into, and there is so much detail. First you wrap a layer or two of blanket around your body, […] then you put on your sleeves and shirt of chain mail— […] then you put on your shoes—flat-boats roofed over with interleaving bands of steel—and screw your clumsy spurs into the heels.
Then the Tulsi Store became a place of deep romance and endless delights, transformed from the austere emporium it was on other days, dark and silent, its shelves crammed with bolts of cloth that gave off acrid and sometimes unpleasant smells, its tables jumbled with cheap scissors and knives and spoons, towers of dusty blue-rimmed enamel plates interleaved with ragged grey paper, and boxes of hairpins, needles, pins and thread.
The Godfather Returns (Random House; 430 pages), by the non-Sicilian Mark Winegardner, is not precisely a sequel; it’s interleaved into the gaps between the three movies.
[…] Mr. Sylvestre shows just as much talent with charcuterie. His pork terrine […] interleaves succulent hunks of various meaty cuts between thick veins of milky lardo.
gloss: To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An interleaved or interspersed arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk
Derived words: deinterleave
interleavability
interleavable
interleaved
interleavedly
interleaver
interleaving
noninterleaved
uninterleave
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