interthread
interthread verb: to pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
Verb
interthread (third-person singular simple present interthreads, present participle interthreading, simple past and past participle interthreaded)
- To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
- the interthreading of warp and weft
- a woven maze of tiny glittering lines, exquisitely inter-threaded1913, Algernon Blackwood, chapter 24, in A Prisoner in Fairyland, London: Macmillan, page 335
- Synonyms:
- interlace, intertwine, interweave, betwine, braid, entwist, entwine, intertwist, lace, lock
- To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
- silk fabrics interthreaded with gold and silver
- Why wasn’t it a fine thing to be ready with your money? Why wasn’t it good to share your food an’ drink? She had never had the courage to ask Robert to explain, and now as she thought of Mrs. Morphy’s generosity, interthreaded with her thought was a remembrance of this saying of Robert’s.1921, Jessie Sime, chapter 45, in Our Little Life, New York: Stokes
- To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
- the black moor, interthreaded with briny waters1876, John Stuart Blackie, chapter 3, in The Language and Literature of the Scottish Highlands,, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, page 139
- The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […]1886, Willard Glazier, chapter 11, in Peculiarities of American Cities, Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, page 183
- Synonyms:
- crisscross, pervade, run through
- To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
- […] Christianity is slowly but steadily, and as surely, interthreading her bright woof-lines into the texture of national and political, as well as social life:1848 November, Charles Rich, “War,—its Reality and Poetry”, in Western Literary Messenger, volume 11, number 3, page 131
- To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
- an immense lake of ceaselessly interthreading grays and silvers1977, Michael Bishop, chapter 6, in Stolen Faces, New York: Harper and Row, page 69
- […] we know how [every neuron’s] dendrites and axons interthread with other nerve cells.1995, Natalie Angier, chapter 9, in The Beauty of the Beastly,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 55
- To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.
- One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro,
Delicately and imperceptibly,
Now swaying gently in a row,
Now interthreading slow and rhythmically,1896, Arthur Symons, “Javanese Dancers”, in Silhouettes, London: Leonard Smithers, page 33 - We watched the little double-decked tram-cars gliding by, the opposing, interthreading streams of pedestrians, and a fleet of coal barges coming up the river […]1918 November, Henry Beston, “With the American Submarines”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 688
- One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro,
Adjective
interthread (not comparable)
- Between threads.
- interthread communication
Examples of interthread in a sentence
- under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar1981, Jack Butler, “Blackberries”, in Miller Williams, editor, Ozark, Ozark, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, page 148:
- Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.2000, Philip Lawson, chapter 24, in Muskrat Courage, New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, page 165:
- I could hear the music from streets away—interthreaded voices cast into the immense night,1995, Jane Brox, chapter 2, in Here and Nowhere Else, Boston: Beacon Press, pages 31–32:
- The sensuous reality which interthreads and supports all the gropings of my imagination […]1908, Helen Keller, chapter 6, in The World I Live In,, New York: The Century Co., page 77:
Synonyms of interthread
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Forms of interthread
| third-person singular present | interthreads |
|---|---|
| present participle | interthreading |
| past participle | interthreaded |
| past | interthreaded |
| alternative form | inter-thread |
Origin of interthread
From inter- + thread.
Questions about interthread
- What does interthread mean?
- Interthread means to pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
- How do you use interthread in a sentence?
- under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar
- What part of speech is interthread?
- Interthread can be a verb or an adjective.
- What is the past tense of interthread?
- The past tense of interthread is interthreaded.
Words near interthread in the dictionary
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