Intercalated vs Intercalates - What's the difference?
intercalated | intercalates |
(intercalate)
(geology) interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.
(intercalate)
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.
As verbs the difference between intercalated and intercalates
is that intercalated is (intercalate) while intercalates is .As an adjective intercalated
is (geology) interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.intercalated
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(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.