Crossword clues for intersperse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intersperse \In`ter*sperse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interspersed; p. pr. & vb. n. Interspersing.] [L. interspersus interspersed; inter between, among + spargere to scatter. See Sparse.]
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To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.
There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades.
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To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures.
Which space is interspersed with small islands and rock.
--Cook.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other: 2 # (context transitive English) To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things). 3 # (context transitive English) To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).
WordNet
v. place at intervals in or among; "intersperse exclamation marks ina the text"
introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions [syn: interlard]
Usage examples of "intersperse".
Half the fifty or so pages were filled with notes, neatly hand-written, interspersed with figures, formulae and sketches, some of which were of plants, others plans of plantations as far as I could judge.
Interspersed among them were big canvasback troop-carriers, their headlamps glaring in the brightening daylight.
The long, oak tables and benches were interspersed with couches, for throughout the empire at this time it remained a matter of local customor simply of personal choicewhether one ate sitting or reclining, and a particularly prolonged and enjoyable dinner might well begin with the first and conclude with the second.
To her right was a vast tangle of dreary tamarack and cedar interspersed with deadwood, bracken, and thorny shrubs.
Many drably costumed women and girls sat around tables interspersed among the beds.
Still, interspersed between its superstitions and amulets, demons and dybbuks, Hasidism provided broad cosmic perspectives for the wretched ghetto dweller, and endowed him with a sanctity that reached deeply beyond his ragged parochialism and penetrated his soul.
Interspersed among the large molded items were miniature gift boxes of gold and silver, each stuffed with yummy TenHuis truffles and bonbons and molded bears.
Then they scouted the lie of the land around the laager to make certain the Nguni pickets were not creeping up on them through the gullies and the light forests that were interspersed in the grassy veld.
Pieds Nus and saw more green, interspersed here and there with sapphire pools of water.
Four days of messages played back one by one, interspersed with a number of hang-ups.
Gathers upon the sea, and vast waves burst, I turn from the drear aspect to the home Of Earth and its deep woods, where, interspersed, When winds blow loud, pines make sweet melody.
Two showed large expanses of land, blackened by forest fire but with many small streams, interspersed stands of trees and no few houses and buildings.
He interspersed cuts of beef, pork or roasted chickens with the stews, which he also varied, including a fish stew after he had convinced Zirga and the guards to spend a day fishing off the dock.
The train was practically empty at this time of night, and Malachi was alone in the car except for six teenaged girls, who burst into fits of giggling interspersed with furtive looks in his direction.
The rest were mostly scenes of tribadism and of lesbian love, and interspersed with them were a few representing flagellation by a girl on a girl, both being stark naked!