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interspect

interspect verb: to examine or evaluate the relationships between.

Verb

interspect (third-person singular simple present interspects, present participle interspecting, simple past and past participle interspected)

  1. To examine or evaluate the relationships between.
    • Also, we interspect certain admonitions and cautions concerning such fallacies of things, and errors in invention, as we meet with in our way.1859, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England
    • Studies conducted for women in urban poor have indicated that they interspect the weightage to work & home in a different way ie.^([sic]) house is the first priority.1995, Women, Housing, and Human Settlements, page 367
  2. To appear at intervals within
    • This chasm runs a great length, and is not only always green, but interspected with cataracts of falling water, the delightful murmurings of which add to the solemnity and solitude of the place.1757, A compendium of a journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, pages 125–126
    • In 1670 this plain, was by order of Colbert planted with trees, forming several walks interspected with grass plats.1850 -, What I saw in Paris during Easter 1849

Forms of interspect

third-person singular presentinterspects
present participleinterspecting
past participleinterspected
pastinterspected

Origin of interspect

From inter- + -spect.

Questions about interspect

What does interspect mean?
Interspect means to examine or evaluate the relationships between.
What part of speech is interspect?
Interspect is a verb.
What is the past tense of interspect?
The past tense of interspect is interspected.

Words near interspect in the dictionary

  1. interspecific competitions
  2. interspecific plums
  3. interspecifically
  4. interspecificity
  5. interspecimen
  6. interspect
  7. interspected
  8. interspecting
  9. interspects
  10. interspersal
  11. interspersals

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