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interleave

interleave verb: to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.

Verb

interleave (third-person singular simple present interleaves, present participle interleaving, simple past and past participle interleaved)

  1. (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.
    • Let a Servitor transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references to save time. This will shorten the work and lessen the fatigue.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
    • In the meantime, at your leisure, give a copy of the Museum to my worthy friend, Mr. Peter Hill, bookseller, to bind for me, interleaved with blank leaves, exactly as he did the Laird of Glenriddel’s, that I may insert every anecdote I can learn, together with my own criticisms and remarks on the...1794, Robert Burns, Letter to Mr. James Johnson, Dumfries, 1794, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p....
  2. (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.
    • I had the demon’s own time with my armor, and this delayed me a little. It is troublesome to get into, and there is so much detail. First you wrap a layer or two of blanket around your body, […] then you put on your sleeves and shirt of chain mail— […] then you put on your shoes—flat-boats roofed...1889, Mark Twain, chapter 11, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
    • Then the Tulsi Store became a place of deep romance and endless delights, transformed from the austere emporium it was on other days, dark and silent, its shelves crammed with bolts of cloth that gave off acrid and sometimes unpleasant smells, its tables jumbled with cheap scissors and knives and...1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5
  3. (transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.

Noun

interleave (plural interleaves)

  1. An interleaved or interspersed arrangement.
    • the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk

interleave meaning in Tamil

interleave in Tamil

இடை இடையே செருகு

Examples of interleave in a sentence

  • 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.2004 November 22, Lev Grossman, “An Offer You Can Refuse”, in Time:
  • His pork terrine […] interleaves succulent hunks of various meaty cuts between thick veins of milky lardo.2010 July 7, Alexandra Gill, “Restaurant review: Adesso Bistro”, in The Globe and Mail:

Forms of interleave

Verb
third-person singular presentinterleaves
present participleinterleaving
past participleinterleaved
pastinterleaved
alternative forminterleaf
Noun
pluralinterleaves

Origin of interleave

From inter- + leave.

Words formed from interleave

Questions about interleave

What does interleave mean?
Interleave means to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.
What is interleave in Tamil?
Interleave in Tamil is இடை இடையே செருகு. See Interleave meaning in Tamil.
How do you use interleave in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is interleave?
Interleave can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of interleave?
The past tense of interleave is interleaved.

Words near interleave in the dictionary

  1. interleaflet
  2. interleafs
  3. interleague
  4. interleavability
  5. interleavable
  6. interleave
  7. interleaved
  8. interleavedly
  9. interleaver
  10. interleavers
  11. interleaves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: interleave (page history and authors); interleave (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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