Interleave

Quick meaning: Interleave is a verb meaning (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.
2. (computing, transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.
3. An interleaved or interspersed arrangement.

Example Sentences

the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk

[…] Mr. Sylvestre shows just as much talent with charcuterie. His pork terrine […] interleaves succulent hunks of various meaty cuts between thick veins of milky lardo.

The Godfather Returns (Random House; 430 pages), by the non-Sicilian Mark Winegardner, is not precisely a sequel; it’s interleaved into the gaps between the three movies.

1754, Samuel Johnson, Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, 28 November, 1754, cited in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Augustine Birrell, New York: Dodge, 1896, Volume 1, p. 225, Let a Servitor transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references to save time. This will shorten the work and lessen the fatigue.

Word Forms

• interleaves
• interleaving
• interleaved
• interleaf

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include convolutional, interpage, interpose, interline, intercalate, interpolate.

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