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intermesh, v.|ɪntəˈmɛʃ|
[f. inter- 1 b + mesh v. 3 b.]
intr. Of gears, etc.: to mesh or interlock with one another. Also fig.
1909in Webster. 1928Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 7 (Advt.), The light yarns are vibrated to cause them to intermesh in the fabric. 1948M. J. Herskovits Man & his Works xiv. 215 To achieve some expression of the unities in culture by indicating how trait and complex and pattern..intermesh, as the gears of some machine to constitute a smoothly running, effectively functioning whole. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 153 The cylinders have square-cut threads which intermesh. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. iii. 201 These chains form an intermeshed net and run in any direction in the free liquid. 1971Flying Apr. 92/3 Medical records..are not yet intermeshed with airman records. 1971T. F. Mitchell in Archivum Linguisticum II. 39 It should perhaps be said again that the aspects of meaning we are distinguishing intermesh and often meet in one text, in one sentence, even in one word or syllable. |