interlacing
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5.3
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈleɪsɪŋ/
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entretejido
- 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
26
3.9
A connection between things, for example air pollution and disease
7
4.4
A group of things linked so they work together and change each other
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3.0
The action of bringing two things together so they connect
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6.8
The way things are linked and affect each other
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5.5
Fitting parts together so they move as one
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5.8
A way two or more things connect and affect each other
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7.1
A close connection between things that makes them affect each other
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6.1
A connection between things or systems that makes them affect each other
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8.5
A way that two or more things pass through each other and mix
Things twisted and woven together so they are closely connected
A state in which things are twisted or woven closely together
Closely joined so the parts form a single whole that is hard to separate
A way parts fit together like interlocking fingers
Parts with teeth fitting together so they turn smoothly
A situation in which things pass over each other, like cables
A way of joining two things so they can send power or information
Deep joining of two or more things so they mix but keep their own form
Antonyms
161
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.