Imbricated vs Imbricate - What's the difference?
imbricated | imbricate |
Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
* 1996 , Russell Hoban, Fremder , Bloomsbury 2003, p. 50:
Having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.
To overlap in a regular pattern.
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)- 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.
- 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.