Interleave vs Intercalate - What's the difference?
interleave | intercalate |
To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book
To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing
(computing) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks
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 interleave and intercalate
is that interleave is to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book while intercalate is to insert an extra, leap, day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.interleave
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Alternative forms
* interleafVerb
(interleav)Derived terms
* interleaved * interleavingintercalate
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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.
