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Interleave

Interleave \In`ter*leave"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Interleaving.] [Pref. inter- + leaf.]

  1. To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

  2. Hence: To insert something alternately between the parts of; as, to interleave transparencies with the corresponding pages.

Wiktionary
interleave

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book 2 (context transitive English) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing 3 (context computing transitive English) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks vb. 1 (context transitive English) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book 2 (context transitive English) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing 3 (context computing transitive English) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks

WordNet
interleave
  1. v. provide (books) with blank leaves

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

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

Usage examples of "interleave".

As always, there are half a dozen clean sheets on the bed, interleaved with waxed canvas, so that each time a sheet is soiled she can whip it off, revealing a fresh layer of bedding.

This supplied a series of two-foot-square superconducting busbars and a maze of interleaved windings, fabricated from solid copper bars, that surrounded what appeared to be the main-drive engines.

John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family.

Ganymean-designed molecular circuits worked at subnanosecond speeds, enabling an enormous amount of self-checking to be interleaved with its regular operations.

This non-novel was brought to you by John Brunner using Spicers Plus Fabric Bond and Commercial Bank papers interleaved with Serillo carbons in a Smith Corona 250 electric typewriter fitted with a Kolok black-record ribbon.

Then the Tulsi Store became a place of deep romance and endless delights, transformed from the austere emporium it was on other days, dark and silent, its shelves crammed with bolts of cloth that gave off acrid and sometimes unpleasant smells, its tables jumbled with cheap scissors and knives and spoons, towers of dusty blue-rimmed enamel plates interleaved with ragged grey paper, and boxes of hairpins, needles, pins and thread.

Rather than present one, then the other (which would force the reader to jump back to 1689 in mid-volume), I have interleaved sections of one with sections of the other so that the two stories move forward in synchrony.

Maybe, just maybe, this polity is interleaved with others—if so, if I can just break into an upper or lower deck, there may be a way to get to a T-gate and rejoin the manifold of the Invisible Republic.

She wrapped the ribbon around the tight bun on the top of her head and tied it in a simple knot, the trailing ends interleaving with the surrounding curls.