单词 | interlace |
释义 | interlace (once / 3367 pages) v To interlace is to weave, tangle, or twist things together. When you hold hands with someone, the two of you interlace your fingers. When you do sit ups, you interlace your fingers behind your neck and bend your knees, and if you learn how to make a basket, you'll interlace strips of rattan reeds or willow branches. You can also use this adjective to mean "intersperse," as when you write a short story and attempt to interlace dialogue between paragraphs describing the action. Interlace combines inter-, "between" and the verb lace, "fasten, entwine, or braid." WORD FAMILYinterlace: interlaced, interlaces, interlacing+/enlace: enlaced, enlaces, enlacing/lace: enlace, interlace, laced, lacelike, lacer, laces, lacing, lacy, relace, unlace/laced: lacedly/lacer: lacers/lacing: lacings/lacy: lacier, laciest, lacily/relace: relaced, relaces, relacing/unlace: unlaced, unlaces, unlacing USAGE EXAMPLESNothing about our friends or our hopes or our lives: all the things I imagined we’d eventually interlace. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) But he cursed up a storm, just interlacing all these smart, interesting things he was saying with all these curse words. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) The “Unwind/Path” series features interlaced, loosely rendered loops in one or two other colors besides the recurring one. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) 1v spin, wind, or twist together Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper enlace, entwine, intertwine, lace, twine twine make by twisting together or intertwining untwine undo what has been twined together wind, wreathe form into a wreath wattleinterlace to form wattle plash, pleachinterlace the shoots of knot, ravel, tangletangle or complicate splicejoin by interweaving strands piecejoin during spinning distort, twine, twist form into a spiral shape 2v hold in a locking position Syn|Hyper interlock, lock hold, take hold have or hold in one's hands or grip |
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