noun
Meaning 1
An interleaved or interspersed arrangement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
interleave
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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verb
Meaning 2
To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: 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.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 4
To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
Meaning 5
intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intersperse, interlard
verb
Meaning 6
intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intersperse
verb
Meaning 7
provide (books) with blank leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 插入空白頁 /插入空白页 (chārù kòngbái yè) — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Finnish: lomittaa — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Italian: interfogliare — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Romanian: interfolia — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Russian: чередовать (čeredovatʹ) — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Russian: перемежаться (peremežatʹsja) — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Spanish: interfoliar — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Swedish: interfoliera — to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
- Chinese Mandarin: 間插 /间插 — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 穿插 (chuānchā) — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Finnish: lomittaa — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- French: imbriquer — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- French: entrelacer — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- French: intercaler — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Greek: διεμπλέκω (diempléko) — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Portuguese: intercalar — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Romanian: intercala — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Russian: проставля́ть (prostavlyát) — to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 交錯分配 /交错分配 (jiāocuò fēnpèi) — computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks
- Chinese Mandarin: 交叉存取 (jiāochā cúnqǔ) — computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks
- Finnish: lomittaa — computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks
- Icelandic: flétta — computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks
- Russian: распределя́ть (raspredeljátʹ) — computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks