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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interweave
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
▪ And the two are closely interwoven.
▪ As in the past, the lives of seals and man are still closely interwoven.
▪ The two kinds of evolution are closely interwoven.
▪ For, in reality, the research and teaching activities are so closely interwoven that they are inseparable.
▪ The values of privacy and the values of home are closely interwoven, especially in contemporary middle-class culture.
▪ Most are, after all, sessile non-moving creatures formed into an intricate tapestry of living organisms often closely interwoven with one another.
inextricably
▪ Curriculum and assessment are, as every teacher knows, inextricably interwoven.
▪ These two themes - danger and dependence - are inextricably interwoven in individual cognitive and affective orientations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Poison" is three interwoven stories in one.
▪ The modern music is interwoven with hits from the 1920s.
▪ The silk is interwoven with gold and silver threads.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
interweave

interweave \in`ter*weave"\, v. t. [imp. & obs. p. p. interwove; p. p. interwoven; p. pr. & vb. n. interweaving.]

  1. To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.

    Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven.
    --Milton.

  2. To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood.
    --Dryden.

    Words interwove with sighs found out their way.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interweave

1570s, hybrid from inter- + weave (v.). Related: Interweaving; interwoven.

Wiktionary
interweave

vb. To combine two things through weaving

WordNet
interweave
  1. v. interlace by or as it by weaving [syn: weave] [ant: unweave]

  2. [also: interwoven, interwove]

Usage examples of "interweave".

Everything-the soft, interwoven masses of bladderweed and the transparent, hydrogen-filled bladders that swelled at their fringes, the knotty mats of black grass, froths of algae and elaborate nests of ferns-was sopping wet.

Everythingthe soft, interwoven masses of bladderweed and the transparent, hydrogen-filled bladders that swelled at their fringes, the knotty mats of black grass, froths of algae and elaborate nests of fernswas sopping-wet.

Now Lisstik was sitting on his tail, leaving his upper two sets of brachia free to gesture and interweave as Kamarians loved to do.

There is the clever interweaving of plot, the handling of dialog, and a thousand other intricacies.

It is rather an opaque, mysterious thing, closed in upon itself, a fragmented mass, its enigma renewed in every interval, which combines here and there with the forms of the world and becomes interwoven with them: so much so that all these elements, taken together, form a network of marks in which each of them may play, and does in fact play, in relation to all the others, the role of content or of sign, that of secret or of indicator.

One thing was certain: the fates of Eratosthenes and Hor-ent-yotf were inextricably interwoven, like designs into a funerary shroud.

No panthers or skulls, no dragons or nudes, these tattoos offered an unexpected jungle of pure design, spirals and knots, mazes and mandalas, interwoven and overlapped in a deliberate thwarting of the desire for representation, this prime example of tribal Hackwork spoke to an inner, more private eye.

There was no silver in the thick, dark braids that swept below her waist when she arose and that were interwoven with threads of soft gold, interset with green and pale yellow stones.

His life-drama was interwoven into the lives of all classes of people: men, women and children, Judaists and heathen, King Herod and the proconsul Pilate, priests and soldiers, merchants and beggars, learned sophists and ignorant fools, the sick and the healthy, the righteous and the sinful, Jews and Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, and all others who could be met in Palestine, the very market of races and creeds.

But under its first editor, a Chicago advertising man named Clifton Moore Thomas, The Beaver limited itself mainly to a hodgepodge of curling scores from the Saskatoon store, news of an engagement in Kamloops, photos of an office picnic in Victoria, the results of a pie-eating competition at Fort ii la Corne, word of new tennis and quoits courts for the Winnipeg staff-all interwoven with hair-raising fur-trade accounts and glued together with bad Irish jokes and harmless homilies on how to increase sales.

Here in 1934 -- making another contribution to the riddle of interwoven cultures in Africa--Curle saw triangular niches in turnbled thorn-grown brickwork of a kind which may be seen, to this day, in the brick buildings of Darfur and in other buildings of greater age as far west as Kumbi Saleh, probable site of one of the capitals of ancient Ghana.

Flinging a glory, like the golden glow In which Spring clothes her emerald-winged minions, All interwoven with fine feathery snow And moonlight splendour of intensest rime, With which frost paints the pines in winter time.

And so, they maintain, what is required is some sort of systems theory orientation, some way for us to see and feel that we are all interwoven into the single pattern and web of life.

Particulars and Universals alike it is established that to the first of those known as the Fates, to Clotho the Spinner, must be due the unity and as it were interweaving of all that exists: Lachesis presides over the Lots: to Atropos must necessarily belong the conduct of mundane events.

For Particulars and Universals alike it is established that to the first of those known as the Fates, to Clotho the Spinner, must be due the unity and as it were interweaving of all that exists: Lachesis presides over the Lots: to Atropos must necessarily belong the conduct of mundane events.