Intercalate vs Intermix - What's the difference?
intercalate | intermix |
To insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
* 1844 , , Essays: Second Series , ch. 2:
To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The has such a month.
(molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
To mix together; to intermingle or blend.
An intermixture; the product of mixing together
*{{quote-book, 1973, Wilson Brian Key, Subliminal Seduction
, passage=This idealized structure may not exist in reality, considering the high divorce rate and the intermixes of maternal-paternal dominance characteristics.}}
As verbs the difference between intercalate and intermix
is that intercalate is to insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena while intermix is to mix together; to intermingle or blend.As a noun intermix is
an intermixture; the product of mixing together.intercalate
English
(wikipedia intercalate)Verb
(intercalat)- '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)See also
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----intermix
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Verb
(es)Derived terms
* intermixture * intermixerNoun
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