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Imbricates vs Imbricated - What's the difference?

imbricates | imbricated |

As a verb imbricates

is (imbricate).

As an adjective imbricated is

overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.

imbricates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (imbricate)

    • imbricate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.

    • Verb

    (imbricat)
  • To overlap in a regular pattern.

    • Related terms

    * imbrication

    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.