Intersperse vs Indisposition - What's the difference?
intersperse | indisposition |
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).
a mild illness, the state of being indisposed
* 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
a bad mood or disposition
* 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
As a verb intersperse
is to mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:.As a noun indisposition is
a mild illness, the state of being indisposed.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.
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*indisposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
- Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves?