INTERSPERSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intersperse mean? 

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

1. place at intervals in or among

2. introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions

  Familiarity information: INTERSPERSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERSPERSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intersperse    ... he / she / it intersperses   
Past simple: interspersed   
Past participle: interspersed   
-ing form: interspersing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place at intervals in or among

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

intersperse exclamation marks in the text

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

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

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

interleave (intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

interspersal; interspersion (the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

interlard; intersperse

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

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

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

interleave (intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

interspersion (the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things)

 Context examples 

Any DNA sequence rearrangement that results in the gain of copies of a genomic region, typically in the form of long interspersed sequences, short interspersed sequences, satellite sequences and retrotransposons.

(Genetic Duplication Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A neuroendocrine cell found in the thyroid gland interspersed among the follicular cells or in clusters between the follicles.

(C-Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

This 340 kD protein is a glycoprotein containing multiple scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) domains separated by SRCR-interspersed domains (SID).

(Deleted in Malignant Brain Tumors 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The cells occur in sheets interspersed with areas of fatty tissue.

(Parathyroid Gland Chief Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The Dry Valleys, by contrast, are ice-free, mountainous regions, interspersed with glaciers, where little snow accumulates because they are scoured by winds.

(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)

KH motifs are found in one or multiple copies, interspersed with RGG repeats, that may function cooperatively or, in single motif proteins, independently.

(KH Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A dense intricate feltwork of interwoven fine glial processes, fibrils, synaptic terminals, axons, and dendrites interspersed among the nerve cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.

(Neuropil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Sometimes in his rage he would take me for one of them, and come at me, mouthing as if he were going to tear me in pieces; then, remembering me, just in time, would dive into the shop, and lie upon his bed, as I thought from the sound of his voice, yelling in a frantic way, to his own windy tune, the Death of Nelson; with an Oh! before every line, and innumerable Goroos interspersed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As the ROV was traversing a flat area of rock interspersed with sediment at 4,290 meters, it came across a remarkable little octopod sitting on a flat rock dusted with a light coat of sediment.

(Deep Discoverer Discovers a Very Deep, Ghostlike Octopod, NOAA)