interpolate
part of speech
verb (interpolates, interpolated, interpolating) (formal)
meaning for a pupil
To put extra words, lines or a new piece into a story or text, often between parts that were already there. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Scholars say an editor added a division to Sefer Yetzirah, not knowing what the original meant by its letters. In the primary lessons: in the lessons a teller adds a local detail or a new scene into an old tale that was told before
examples
- He interpolated this division in the Sefer Yetzirah without knowing that by ns:s the original Sefer Y'etzirah meant vowels. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- The teller interpolated a joke into the old story. tree →
- She interpolated her own verse between the lines. tree →
- Later writers often interpolated new episodes. tree →
note
nothing for maths; in maths, to interpolate means to estimate a value lying between two known numbers, but it does not change a count by itself
Trees and pragmatics
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