interleave

«interleave» in Mova's school dictionary: to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (interleave, interleaves, interleaved, interleaving)

meaning for a pupil

1) To interleave things is to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two piles of cards one by one. tree →

2) To interleave a book is to put blank or extra pages between its pages. tree →

sense in the lessons

In study skills, interleaving means mixing different kinds of practice problems together instead of doing one kind at a time, which research suggests helps learning. In computing it means mixing two streams of data. Phrases: «interleave A with B», «interleaved practice».

examples

• Interleave the red and black cards so they alternate. tree →
• The teacher interleaved addition and subtraction questions on the sheet. tree →
• Interleaved practice helps you remember better than doing one type at once. tree →
• She interleaved the photos with tissue paper to protect them. tree →
• The old diary was interleaved with pressed flowers. tree →
• The computer interleaves the two sounds so they play together. tree →

note

Past form «interleaved». Mostly used in study, printing and computing; not an everyday word. Pattern: A, B, A, B, like a zip.

In the corpora

• On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart even by two cars.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «interleave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.