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INTERLEAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interleave mean? 

INTERLEAVE (verb)
  The verb INTERLEAVE has 3 senses:

1. provide (books) with blank leavesplay

2. intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of dataplay

3. intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrationsplay

  Familiarity information: INTERLEAVE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTERLEAVE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they interleave  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it interleaves  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: interleaved  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: interleaved  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: interleaving  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide (books) with blank leaves

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "interleave" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


Sense 2

Meaning:

Intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "interleave" is one way to...):

intersperse (place at intervals in or among)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


Sense 3

Meaning:

Intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "interleave" is one way to...):

interlard; intersperse (introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP


 Context examples 


MXenes are sheets of materials only a few atoms thick that are mostly composed of layers of metals like titanium interleaved by carbon and/or nitrogen.

(Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial, National Science Foundation)

An instrument to distinguish interleaved log output from different sources.

(Nested Diagnostic Context, NCI Thesaurus)

PHD fingers fold into an interleaved Zn-finger chelating two Zn ions in an atypical cross-braced conformation also shared by the FYVE and RING fingers; the zinc sites are located at opposite ends of a beta-sheet.

(PHD Finger, NCI Thesaurus)



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