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interlace

Word definitions for interlace in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interlace \In`ter*lace"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Interlaced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Interlacing .] [OE. entrelacen, F. entrelacer. See Inter- , and Lace .] To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French entrelacer , from entre- (see entre- ) + lacer (see lace ). Television sense is from 1927. Related: Interlaced ; interlacing . The noun is 1904, from the verb.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the visual arts , interlace is a decorative element found in medieval art . In interlace, bands or portions of other motifs are looped, braided , and knotted in complex geometric patterns, often to fill a space. Interlacing is common in the Migration ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. spin or twist together so as to form a cord; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope" [syn: intertwine , twine , entwine , enlace , lace ] [ant: untwine ] hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: lock , ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cross one with another; to interweave: as, to interlace wires; hence, to mingle; to blend. ...

Usage examples of interlace.

Only narrow gaps had been cleared through the interlaced abattis, and the Confederation infantry took heavy losses while threading slowly through the gaps.

Among the interlaced melodies of the human counterpoint are love songs and anacreontics, marches and savage dance-rhythms, hymns of hate and loud hilarious chanties.

And lower down the great forest trees arch over it, and the sunbeams trickle through them, and dance in many a quiet pool, turning the far-down sands to gold, brightening majestic tree-ferns, and shining on the fragile polypodium tamariscinum which clings tremblingly to the branches of the graceful waringhan, on a beautiful lygodium which adorns the uncouth trunk of an artocarpus, on glossy ginger-worts and trailing yams, on climbers and epiphytes, and on gigantic lianas which, climbing to the tops of the tallest trees, descend in vast festoons, many of them with orange and scarlet flowers and fruitage, passing from tree to tree, and interlacing the forest with a living network, while selaginellas and lindsayas, and film ferns, and trichomanes radicans drape the rocks in feathery green, along with mosses scarcely distinguishable from ferns.

The thick moss and ferns, the bluebells and the bloodroots with their starry white blooms, the interlaced boughs, and the gentle gurgle of the water running over the smooth stones made a more lovely dining chamber, Ista thought, than she had sat in for many a year.

Foliage thinned out and branches began to shrink in size where the end of the Tree interlaced with the beginnings of another.

They were about to make a Crossing, moving through the relatively open patches where the outer branches of one Tree interlaced with another.

They were dressed alike, as well, in thick, floor-length cloaks of purple finespun cloth interlaced with gold thread, the backs of their heads shrouded in cowls.

One of the appliques was an intricate band of interlace and gems that was supposed to encircle the helm like a crown.

Friday, 18870617:1015 When Astoria returned from the loo, she found George sitting behind the desk, hands interlaced behind his head, watching as she came through the door.

With feet on desk, chair tilted back, hands interlaced behind his head, he was nearly asleep two hours later when Astoria gently shook his elbow.

The graying, curly-haired gentleman looked into the whirling Nipkow disk with the new Sanabria interlaced pattern and pushed one of the microphones a little further from him.

It was a jumble of containers lashed together by nonmagnetic tape and shot into an orbit calculated to avoid the laser cables and power transmission beams that interlaced the park.

These Numerations are six in number, and are represented by the interlaced triangle, or the Seal of Solomon.

Numerations, six, represented by interlaced triangle, Seal of Solomon, 799-m.

Christ crucified and a great lion surrounded by interlaced, ribbonlike ornament, occupy dominant positions.