interleave
Americanverb (used with object)
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interleaves,
present (3rd person singular)
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interleaved,
past participle, past
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interleaving
present participle
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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
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
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
A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
The novel interleaves the narrator’s history with snippets of the island’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
On June 5, the concert format varies as Alsop interleaves the music with her personal reminiscences, in conversation with NPR host Scott Simon and Bernstein’s daughter Jamie.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2018
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
In “Skating to Antarctica,” she interleaves her Antarctic voyage with recollections of her early childhood.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2015
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
Last season’s “What the Constitution Means to Me,” nominated for a Tony Award, interleaved memoir with constitutional law analysis.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020
Five superb narrators — Richard Topol, Edoardo Ballerini, Raphael Corkhill, Michael Crouch and Caitlin Davies — deliver the interleaved episodes of “The Maze at Windermere,” a novel spanning over 300 years in Newport, R.I.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 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
This was followed two years later by The Giacomo Variations, a quasi-operatic piece that interleaved the memoirs of the elderly Casanova with excerpts from the Mozart-Da Ponte repertoire.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2017
His almanacs were carefully interleaved and evidently were intended to be not only a record of the wisdom of the "Students in Physick and Astronomy," but also of events in the lives of devout owners.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
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
In her script, Bioh imbued Shakespeare’s characters with the language and culture of these various communities, interleaving the Elizabethan speech with references to palm wine, jollof rice and cocoyams.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
A formal relationship between the degree of interleaving and the frequency of scutoids seems possible, which would make these continuous and discrete measures usefully interchangeable.
From Nature ● Sep. 9, 2018
Glennard, taking the volume from his hand, glanced with a kind of repugnance at the interleaving of yellow cris-crossed sheets.
From The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
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