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Imbricated vs Imbricate - What's the difference?

imbricated | imbricate |

As adjectives the difference between imbricated and imbricate

is that imbricated is overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined while imbricate is having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.

As a verb imbricate is

to overlap in a regular pattern.

imbricated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
  • He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.
  • * 1996 , Russell Hoban, Fremder , Bloomsbury 2003, p. 50:
  • the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.

    imbricate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.
  • Verb

    (imbricat)
  • To overlap in a regular pattern.