Definition of Interleave

1. Verb. Provide (books) with blank leaves.

Generic synonyms: Furnish, Provide, Render, Supply

2. Verb. Intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data.
Generic synonyms: Intersperse

3. Verb. Intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations.
Generic synonyms: Interlard, Intersperse

Definition of Interleave

1. v. t. To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

Definition of Interleave

1. Verb. (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing ¹

3. Verb. (context: computing transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Interleave

1. [v -VED, -VING, -VES]

Medical Definition of Interleave

1. To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book. Origin: Pref. Inter- + leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interleave

interlards
interlay
interlayer
interlayered
interlayering
interlayers
interlaying
interlayment
interlays
interleaf
interleafed
interleafing
interleaflet
interleafs
interleague
interleave (current term)
interleaved
interleaves
interleaving
interleavings
interlegislative
interlend
interlending
interlends
interlent
interleukin
interleukin-1
interleukin-10
interleukin-11
interleukin-12

Literary usage of Interleave

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"... transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references, to save time. This will shorten the work, ..."

2. Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County by Eli Field Cooley, William Scudder Cooley, Hannah Louisa Cooley (1883)
"It is suggested that any person particularly interested in anyone family, interleave the pages of that family genealogy with thin paper, and note, ..."

3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references, to save time. This will shorten the work, and lessen the fatigue. ..."

4. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"We combine them by using the procedure interleave, which takes two lists and ... If you interleave a stack of red cards with a stack of black cards, ..."

5. The Analyst Application by SAS Institute (2003)
"Select interleave to interleave the rows of the tables. Common variables among the tables you have chosen to concatenate are listed in the Common variables ..."

6. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"When this is the case, your hard disk has an "optimal interleave." We do not adjust the interleave on a floppy because an entire track can be read in 1 ..."

7. Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS(R) Software by SAS Institute (2001)
"You interleave data sets using a SET statement and a BY statement in a DATA step. The number of observations in the new data set is the sum of the number of ..."

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