INTERTWINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intertwine mean? 

• INTERTWINE (verb)
  The verb INTERTWINE has 3 senses:

1. spin, wind, or twist together

2. make lacework by knotting or looping

3. make a loop in

  Familiarity information: INTERTWINE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERTWINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intertwine    ... he / she / it intertwines   
Past simple: intertwined   
Past participle: intertwined   
-ing form: intertwining   

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 "intertwine" 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 "intertwine"):

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:

Make lacework by knotting or looping

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

intertwine; tat

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

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

"Intertwine" entails doing...:

knot (make into knots; make knots out of)

Domain category:

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a loop in

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

intertwine; loop

Context example:

loop a rope

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

entwine; knit (tie or link together)

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

crochet; hook (make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle)

noose (make a noose in or of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The collagenous lamellae are randomly oriented and loosely intertwined.

(Immature Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA-binding motifs formed from two alpha-helixes which intertwine for about eight turns into a coiled coil and then bifurcate to form Y shaped structures.

(Leucine Zipper, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

My mouth was full of his beard, our arms were locked, our bodies intertwined, and that infernal chair radiated its legs all round us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So the months followed one another, and first the trees budded in the woods, and soon the green branches grew thickly intertwined, and then the blossoms began to fall.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I am practically industrious—painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour—but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are closely intertwined, with each disease a risk factor for developing the other and sharing other risk factors in common, as well as sharing causes for the diseases to get worse, and outcomes, suggests a comprehensive analysis by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and George Washington University Medical Center.

(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)