Amalgamate vs Intersperse - What's the difference?
amalgamate | intersperse | Related terms |
To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
* Burke
To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
(mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:
* 1991 , Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images , page 76:
# To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things).
#* 1985 , Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps , page 46:
# To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).
Amalgamate is a related term of intersperse.
As verbs the difference between amalgamate and intersperse
is that amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join while intersperse is to mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:.As an adjective amalgamate
is coalesced; united; combined.amalgamate
English
Verb
(amalgamat)- to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
Synonyms
* (to merge) mixAntonyms
* (to merge) separateExternal links
* ("amalgamate" on Wikipedia) ----intersperse
English
Verb
(interspers)- For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
- Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
- Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
- Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.