interthreads

Verb

interthread (third-person singular simple present interthreads, present participle interthreading, simple past and past participle interthreaded)

1. (transitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   interlace, intertwine, interweave, betwine, braid, entwist, entwine, intertwist, lace, lock

2. (transitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   blend, combine, mix

3. (transitive) 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

   Synonyms:

   crisscross, pervade, run through

4. (transitive) 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
5. (intransitive) 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
6. (intransitive) 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

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