interleave
Americanverb (used with object)
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to provide blank leaves in (a book) for notes or written comments.
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to insert blank leaves between (the regular printed leaves).
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to insert something alternately and regularly between the pages or parts of.
Interleave the eight-page form with carbon paper.
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to insert (material) alternately and regularly between the pages or parts of something else.
Interleave carbon paper between the pages of the form.
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Computers.
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to arrange (an operation) so that two or more programs, sets of instructions, etc., are performed in an alternating fashion.
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to mix (data and control characters) in a single operation.
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verb
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(often foll by with) to intersperse (with), esp alternately, as the illustrations in a book (with protective leaves)
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to provide (a book) with blank leaves for notes, etc, or to protect illustrations
Other Word Forms
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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interleavesimple
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interleavessimple
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have interleavedperfect
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has interleavedperfect
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am interleavingprogressive
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are interleavingprogressive
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is interleavingprogressive
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have been interleavingperfect progressive
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has been interleavingperfect progressive
Past
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interleavedsimple
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had interleavedperfect
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was interleavingprogressive
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were interleavingprogressive
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had been interleavingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of interleave
Example Sentences
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See Examples For:
Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
So researchers interleave the data qubits with so-called ancillary qubits and establish a quantum link called entanglement between each ancilla and its neighbors.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 14, 2021
So instead of shooting 50 jumpers in a row and then 50 foul shots, I would interleave the shots.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2017
But the research shows unequivocally that mastery and long-term retention are much better if you interleave practice than if you mass it.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2014
Sometimes the collisions would interleave layers of rock like shuffled playing cards.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The novel interleaves the narrator’s history with snippets of the island’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
Tracing Lucy’s history with him while the two try to solve a dark mystery, “William!” intricately interleaves past with present.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021
Guimarães’s style interleaves illusion and monologue, using silken sleight-of-hand to illustrate metaphoric conceits.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2020
As the book progresses, she interleaves chapters set in the present with ones that deal with memories of college, of home, of Tracey.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2016
With all this to be done, it’s not surprising that a critical aspect of the team’s success is a very specific daily and weekly schedule that interleaves the elements of individual and team practice.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2014
The detector is essentially made from camera film interleaved with 1,000 tungsten plates.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2022
And yet out of this chaos emerges a vivid set of beings, beset by humanity’s common fears and passions, doubts and epiphanies, who also participate in a pulpish adventure interleaved with meditative moments.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
With Cole, something like the opposite happens: The alchemy of verbal and visual is such that the world becomes “a series of interleaved apparitions.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
To ensure that these cells were not lost during recording, we recorded rats on four interleaved sessions per day: two 30-min SMT sessions and two 15-min sessions in the random foraging task.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
The marked sentences were copied on slips of paper, which were afterwards posted into an interleaved copy of an old dictionary opposite the words to which they related.
From Literary Byways by Andrews, William
And critically, there is overlap between cases in which A beats B and A loses to C. This interleaving of the numbers on the faces enables the intransitivity.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
Like Stephen King, another inspiration here, Knausgaard stays shoulder-close to his characters, his paragraphs mimicking the erratic interleaving of their thoughts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Both wedging and interleaving can be quantified in units of radius of curvature, so are ideal for characterizing curved epithelia.
From Nature ● Sep. 9, 2018
Or, like scores of other educational reforms big and small, interleaving might get lost in an administrative thicket or garbled in translation, one more good idea overwhelmed by reality.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2013
Printed in black ink on cream laid book paper, without interleaving of tissue.
From Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf by Rodd, Rennell
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