to interpolate

Examples

• All

• Interpolated verses based on a traditional medieval song of harvest, supplicating a bountiful yield, frame the reapers' task.

  Academic text (1997)

• Furthermore, occasional interpolated passages narrate earlier occurrences.

  Academic text (1990)

• You're only getting an interpolated version of what's there.

• Many of the interpolated stories reflect back upon the frame narration.

  Academic text (1991)

• I'm trying to think what my first impressions of you were because I, I, I have to kind of interpolate from, from the facts that I know.

• And then he says scribes take a secret oath to omit, interpolate, alter.

• And so this is precisely the angry reaction that Joan Scott had by writing, by interpolating French feminists from overseas.

• Interpolated among these are fragments of dialogue or reported interior monologue in the past:

  Academic text (1990)

• Recently, Gerald Vizenor has become prominent for his "trickster narratives." These oppositional narratives playfully interpolate ideas of Western history within their comic play.

  Academic text (1995)

• The editor decided to interpolate additional scenes into the script to enhance the storyline.

Synonyms

I

to insert

vsto interpolate

208 3.5

To put something inside something else

specifically often changes meaning or authenticity rather than neutral placement

A

to alter

vsto interpolate

101 7.9

To change a text by adding words, often to make it false

focuses on changing meaning or authenticity even without clear intent to falsify

S

to stick in

vsto interpolate

• Informal

46 4.1

Quickly add a short remark into a talk or conversation

involves altering meaning or authenticity rather than casual unexpected addition

S

to spatchcock

vsto interpolate

• Literature

9.9

To put extra words into a sentence in an awkward way

is usually about altering meaning or authenticity rather than awkward speed

I

to interlard

vsto interpolate

• Archaic

9.9

To interrupt speech or writing by adding short remarks to give variety

aims to change meaning or authenticity rather than simply interrupt or vary

Antonyms

R

to remove

∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

O

to omit

66 3.4

Leave out something, for example a name, on purpose or by accident

How Intrusive

to doctor

10 7.7

to alter

101 7.9

to interpolate

• Formal

1 9.2

to insert

208 3.5

to add

∞ 1.0

to append

7 4.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology