interlacing
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5.3
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈleɪsɪŋ/
- The city project has been interpreted by artist Cristina Colichon as a woven landscape, creating a construct of interlacing and overlapping patterns in the territory.
Examples
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Interlacing branches and dead leaves made a roof.
Fiction book (1997) -
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
Fiction book (1992) -
The book is a beautifully written narrative that focuses, from a personal perspective, on several interlacing themes.
Blog text (16) -
The documentary remains the observer and the active agent of these interlacings.
Academic text (1999) -
To paraphrase Jesus Martin-Barbero, we must attend to the thick texture of hegemony/subalternity, the interlacing of submission and resistance, opposition and complicity.
Academic text (1996) -
The interlacing of the two meditations on shoes has only underscored a metaphor of loss endemic to all attempts at reconstruction: "in both directions, making come back, making go away, making come back again, inside, outside, down there, here, fort, da."
Academic text (2002) -
Through the accretion of such details, what M'Gaw achieves in the last chapter of Philip Seymour is a suggestive interlacing of sentimentality and strangeness.
Academic text (2012) -
The interlacing of vines created a beautiful, natural canopy over the garden.
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Tatiana mastered the interlacing of colors in her artwork to create stunning visual effects.
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The interlacing of the two pieces of fabric enhances the strength and beauty of the quilt.
Synonyms
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3.9
A connection between things, for example air pollution and disease
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4.4
A group of things linked so they work together and change each other
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6.8
The way things are linked and affect each other
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5.8
A way two or more things connect and affect each other
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3.0
The action of bringing two things together so they connect
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7.1
A close connection between things that makes them affect each other
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5.5
Fitting parts together so they move as one
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4.8
Closely joined so the parts form a single whole that is hard to separate
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8.5
A way that two or more things pass through each other and mix
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6.1
A connection between things or systems that makes them affect each other
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9.9
A way of joining two things so they can send power or information
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7.0
Things twisted and woven together so they are closely connected
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9.6
A way parts fit together like interlocking fingers
A state in which things are twisted or woven closely together
Parts with teeth fitting together so they turn smoothly
A situation in which things pass over each other, like cables
Deep joining of two or more things so they mix but keep their own form
Antonyms
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3.5
To separate something so it is no longer joined, for example remove a cable or turn off power
How Interwoven
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Interlacing comes from inter- 'between' and lace 'to tie or weave', and you can think of it like weaving a shoelace through the eyelets. So interlacing is the act of crossing or weaving parts together so they are linked into one whole.