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To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
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the interthreading of warp and weft
a woven maze of tiny glittering lines, exquisitely inter-threaded
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under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar
Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.
To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
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silk fabrics interthreaded with gold and silver
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Why wasn’t it a fine thing to be ready with your money? Why wasn’t it good to share your food an’ drink? She had never had the courage to ask Robert to explain, and now as she thought of Mrs. Morphy’s generosity, interthreaded with her thought was a remembrance of this saying of Robert’s.
1922, Grant Showerman, Horace and His Influence, London: Harrap, Introduction, p. xiii, The myriad and mysterious interthreading of motive and action, of cause and effect, presents to the near vision no semblance of a pattern, and the whole web is so confused and meaningless that the mind grows to doubt the presence of design, and becomes skeptical of the necessity, or even the importance, of any single strand.
I clearly remember the evenings I went to gather a friend from choir practice. I could hear the music from streets away—interthreaded voices cast into the immense night,
To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
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the black moor, interthreaded with briny waters
The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […]
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The sensuous reality which interthreads and supports all the gropings of my imagination […]
The divine interthreads the earthly in these plays:
To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
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[…] Christianity is slowly but steadily, and as surely, interthreading her bright woof-lines into the texture of national and political, as well as social life:
To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
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an immense lake of ceaselessly interthreading grays and silvers
[…] we know how [every neuron’s] dendrites and axons interthread with other nerve cells.
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The traditions of thought and practice found today in the region weave together local and exogenous strands, in a variegated fabric […]. Indigenous and exogenous marriage systems, methods of praise and prayer, food and drink taboos, and dress codes all interthread, but not in a static or homogeneous way.
To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.
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One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro, Delicately and imperceptibly, Now swaying gently in a row, Now interthreading slow and rhythmically,
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We watched the little double-decked tram-cars gliding by, the opposing, interthreading streams of pedestrians, and a fleet of coal barges coming up the river […]
Adjectif
Between threads.
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interthread communication