INTERLACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interlace mean? 

• INTERLACE (verb)
  The verb INTERLACE has 2 senses:

1. spin, wind, or twist together

2. hold in a locking position

  Familiarity information: INTERLACE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERLACE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interlace    ... he / she / it interlaces   
Past simple: interlaced   
Past participle: interlaced   
-ing form: interlacing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spin, wind, or twist together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

enlace; entwine; interlace; intertwine; lace; twine

Context example:

intertwined hearts

Hypernyms (to "interlace" is one way to...):

distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)

Verb group:

twine (make by twisting together or intertwining)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interlace"):

wind; wreathe (form into a wreath)

wattle (interlace to form wattle)

plash; pleach (interlace the shoots of)

knot; ravel; tangle (tangle or complicate)

splice (join by interweaving strands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hold in a locking position

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

interlace; interlock; lock

Context example:

He locked his hands around her neck

Hypernyms (to "interlace" is one way to...):

hold; take hold (have or hold in one's hands or grip)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

At the end of fifteen minutes, the carriage swung in through a stone gateway and on between a double row of arched and interlacing walnut trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was bald on the top of his head; and had some thin wet-looking hair that was just turning grey, brushed across each temple, so that the two sides interlaced on his forehead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A solid composed of a porous, interlacing, absorbent, usually shape retaining material that contains active and/or inert ingredient(s).

(Medicated Sponge Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of elongated, spindle-shaped neoplastic glial cells that form storiform patterns or interlacing fascicular arrangements.

(Pituicytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

For defence each man wore a coat of interlaced leathern thongs, strengthened at the shoulder, elbow, and upper arm with slips of steel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A well-circumscribed benign smooth muscle neoplasm characterized by the presence of spindle cells with cigar-shaped nuclei, interlacing fascicles, and a whorled pattern.

(Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of classic leiomyoma characterized by a dense cellular infiltrate composed of spindle or round cells with scant cytoplasm and a less obvious interlacing fascicle pattern.

(Cellular Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A congenital mesoblastic nephroma characterized by the presence of interlacing fascicles of fibroblastic cells, low mitotic activity, and collagen formation.

(Classic Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma, NCI Thesaurus)

The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)