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Intercalated vs Intercalate - What's the difference?

intercalated | intercalate |

As verbs the difference between intercalated and intercalate

is that intercalated is past tense of intercalate while intercalate is to insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.

As an adjective intercalated

is interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.

intercalated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (intercalate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (geology) interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.

    • intercalate

    English

    (wikipedia intercalate)

    Verb

    (intercalat)
  • To insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
  • * 1844 , , Essays: Second Series , ch. 2:
    • '[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.
  • 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.

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