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Interpolate vs Interpellate - What's the difference?

interpolate | interpellate |

As verbs the difference between interpolate and interpellate

is that interpolate is to introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text while interpellate is to interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).

interpolate

English

(Interpolation)

Verb

(interpolat)
  • (intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into a text.
    • in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated
  • (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
  • (computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
  • * , Nroff/Troff User's manual
    • A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .'''xx'' will '''interpolate the contents of macro ''xx .
  • * , 3rd Edition, 2000, p. 992.
    • In Perl, variable interpolation' happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list '''interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a ''LIST .

    Synonyms

    * (process fetched data in-line) transclude

    Related terms

    * extrapolate * interpolation

    interpellate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To interrupt (someone) so as to inform or question (that person about something).
  • (philosophy) To address (a person) in a way that presupposes a particular identification of them; to give (a person) an identity (which may or may not be accurate).
  • * 1996 , The Cambridge History of American Literature'', volume 8, ''Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995 (edited by Sacvan Bercovitch), page 408:
    • interpellates those being addressed as an audience, and one that is differentiated by gender.
  • * 2002 , Marianne Jørgensen, Louise J. Phillips, Discourse Analysis As Theory and Method , page 41:
  • * 2009 , Samia Bazzi, Arab News and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary Discourse Study :
    • whereas the Palestinian subjects are interpellated as: the martyr... a young Palestinian... a Palestinian teenager.
  • (transitive, chiefly, politics) To question (someone) formally concerning official or governmental policy or business.

    • Derived terms

    * interpellator * interpellation

    See also

    * interpolate * interpel ----