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▪ I. interlace, v.|ɪntəˈleɪs|
Forms: 4–7 entrelace, 4–6 enter-, 6 interlase, 6–7 enter-, 6– interlace.
[ME. entrelace, a. F. entrelace-r (OF. -ier), f. entre- (enter-, inter- 1) + lacer to lace.]
1. trans. To unite two (or more) things by intercrossing laces, strings, or threads; hence, to connect or bind together intricately; to entangle, involve, mix up. (rare in physical sense.)
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. xii. 82 (Camb. MS.) The hows of dydalus so entrelaced þat it is vn-able to be vnlaced. 1481Caxton Myrr. i. v. 27 The vii artes..ben in such wise entrelaced that they may not be auctorised that one without that other. 1578Banister Hist. Man viii. 110 With these nerues, the vj coniugation of brayne is interlaced and mingled. 1791Cowper Odyss. xxiii. 237, I..fashion'd the whole bed..beneath Close interlaced with purple cordage strong. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 62 Ice..is built up of crystalline particles interlaced together.
2. a. To draw two series of threads, withes, or other things, across each other, passing each alternately above and below the other, as in weaving; but implying a simpler and less elaborate arrangement than interweave.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxx. 736 Enterlase your staues ouer your armes, one within another. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 95 Trees, pleasant trees..Now interlace your trembling tops above. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. 76 Linnen cloth is that which we call flax..curiously twisted, enterlaced, and conjoyned. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 594 The boughs..had matted themselves together, or been interlaced by persons of an unlucky shrewdness. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret iii. (1861) 86 Her fingers..interlaced themselves mechanically. 1874Boutell Arms & Arm. iii. 51 Head-pieces formed of brass mail—of rings or chainwork, which might be interwoven or interlaced.
b. fig. To intermix with constant alternation; to alternate; to interweave.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 28 The meeting of us, twoe old acquainted friends, and interlacing of talke and communication. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 28 b, Amongest these are enterlaced some of the royall bloud. 1644Marquis of Worcester in Dircks Life vi. (1865) 77 You were pleased so to interlace terror and comfort. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 391 The two are inextricably interlaced. A righteous life is the result of faith, and faith is deepened by a righteous life.
†3. To interweave one thing or set of things into another; to introduce as by interweaving; to insert, interpolate. Chiefly fig. or transf. Obs.
1532More Confut. Barnes Wks. 739/2 His goodly doctrine interlaced here and there by the waye. 1551T. Wilson Logike 21 In the seconde Proposition, there bee certaine Negatives enterlaced. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1390 Here and there the Painter interlaces Pale cowards marching on with trembling paces. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. iii. (1622) 6 Yet he interlaced some things among, touching his attire and behauiour. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. vi. 77 That we do with all our occupations and all occurrences interlace devout ejaculations of prayer and praise.
4. To cross, vary, or diversify a thing with interwoven or intermixed elements; to intersperse, mingle, or mix with. Chiefly transf. and fig.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxv. (1880) II. 398 Admytte that some histories be interlaced with leasynges. 1594? Greene Selimus Wks. 1881–3 XIV. 270 There our ioyes are interlaced with feares. 1611Coryat Crudities 335 Faire pillars of blacke marble, interlaced with pretty white vaines. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 61 Mosaicke worke, enterlaced with Arabian characters out of their Alcoran. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 109 Yet is it interlaced with pleasant Valleys and large Plains. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 157 When the natives drink plentifully of it [common ale], they interlace it with brandy or usky. 1827Carlyle Misc., Richter (1872) I. 10 Interlaced with..quips, puns, and even oaths. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxix, Beautiful green meadows interlaced with streams.
5. intr. for refl.
a. To cross each other intricately, as if woven together; to lie between each other in opposite directions, like the fingers of the two interlaced hands.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. iii. 23 As roses did with lilies interlace. 1848Carpenter Anim. Phys. 21 Tissue consisting of fibres crossing and interlacing in every direction. 1855Lynch Rivulet lxxxv. vii, As skies are seen more sweetly clear Through boughs that interlace. 1895J. Winsor Mississ. Basin 179 Where the sources of the Roanoke and James interlace with those of the Kanawha.
†b. To mix oneself up, to become entangled or involved. Obs. rare.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 164 If freres enterlasen, þo synne is more perilouse. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xi. lxi. (1612) 271 Yeat interlace we shall among the loue of her and him.
6. Television. (trans.) To present (scanning lines) so that alternate lines of a picture form one sequence and are followed by the intervening lines in a second sequence; to present (dots) similarly so that several fields of regularly spaced dots go to form each picture. Also, to combine (two or more fields), or form (a picture or raster), in this way. Freq. as pa. pple. Cf. also interlaced ppl. a.
1927M. Latour Brit. Pat. 267,513, The elements of the image transmitted by each system AB are..the ones within the others, or interlacing each other. 1936[see frame n. 12 c]. 1955D. G. Fink Color Television Standards iii. 92 Dot interlace, in which minute dots..of different primary colors, produced adjacent to each other during the color-scanning process, are interlaced in various repeated and prearranged sequences. 1966G. H. Hutson Television Receiver Theory I. xii. 187 If these conditions are met the resulting raster must be interlaced. 1967[see field n. 16 d]. 1972Sci. Amer. Sept. 132/2 Every other line is scanned in just under a sixtieth of a second and the missing lines are interlaced in the next sixtieth of a second.
▪ II. interlace, n.|ˈɪntəleɪs|
[f. the vb.]
The action or result of interlacing.
1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 312/2 Interlace. This relates to the crossing of warp and weft, the order of the interlacing in a weave prescribing the structure of the cloth. 1923Daily Mail 19 Mar. 1 The upturned brim has fancy straw interlace, giving a ribbon effect. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. iii. 61 The acanthus-scroll..commonly has a stem composed of three strands, a trick of the carver which was probably inherited from the universal use of the triple strand interlace in Italy at an earlier date. 1948N. Gray in Papers Brit. Sch. Rome XVI. 116 The cross is carved with a foliage pattern on one side..and an interlace on the other. 1973Country Life 29 Nov. 1761/1 Strap-work and interlace patterns on plain velvet.
b. spec. in Television (see interlace v. 6).
1936O. S. Puckle tr. M. von Ardenne's Television Reception i. 5 The line component and the frame component of scanning are regularly recurrent, the interlace being derived from the fractional relationship between line and frame frequencies. 1937Electronics June 15/2 At the end of each half-frame or ‘interlace’, the frame synchronizing impulses are imposed in a similar manner. 1961Listener 2 Nov. 725/3 The television service reopened on June 7, 1946, using the pre-war system (405-lines, 25 pictures per second with 2:1 interlace, positive modulation and AM sound). 1966G. H. Hutson Television Receiver Theory I. xii. 192 The alternate scanning field is 1/4 line late in starting. This causes very poor interlace. |