Imbricates vs Imbricated - What's the difference?
imbricates | imbricated |
(imbricate)
Having regular overlapping edges; intertwined.
To overlap in a regular pattern.
Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
* 1996 , Russell Hoban, Fremder , Bloomsbury 2003, p. 50:
As a verb imbricates
is (imbricate).As an adjective imbricated is
overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.imbricates
English
Verb
(head)imbricate
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Adjective
(-)Verb
(imbricat)imbricated
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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.
