interworkv.
/ɪntəˈwəːk/ 1. transitive. To work one thing into and through another to combine by interpenetration.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > intricately
interlacec1374
entermeenec1443
enterlade1545
weave1545
twist1574
interwork1603
interweave1612
context1628
involve1651
warp1803
thread1853
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. ix 235 They had..certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought, as they seemed to be made like feathers.
a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State in Remains (1661) 9 The several States are sometimes mixed, and inter-wrought one with the other.
1882 Masson in Athenæum 25 Feb. 251/2 Results from all these are interwrought with facts from Mr. Page's narrative and documents.
2. intransitive. To work upon each other; to interact.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > correlate [verb (intransitive)] > interact
interact1852
interwork1854
interplay1890
interface1967
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. i. ii. 71 The Roman character did not interwork into the general Christianity alone.
1876 W. Alexander Bampton Lect. (1877) 216 Where various laws meet and interwork harmoniously.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 53 Two divers sets of causes are ever interworking and counterworking in the tangled web of human affairs.
Derivatives
interˈworking n. and adj.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > interpenetration or interflowing
interworking1641
interpenetration1809
interfluence1817
interfusion1817
interflowing1844
interflow1865
interpermeation1926
the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] > interactive
cross1539
interactive1832
interworking1836
intercommunicate1846
intercommunicated1853
interacting1855
intro-active1855
interactional1886
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 46 What interweavings, or interworkings can knit the Minister, and the Magistrate in their several functions to the regard of any precise correspondency?
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. vii. 278 Circumstances, possessing..no moral interworking energies.
interˈwrought adj.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven
writhenOE
twinedc1300
locked1488
wreathena1500
plait1529
implicatec1540
context?1541
twisted1548
weaved1552
wreathed?1552
texed1572
well-woven1578
woven1590
interlaced1593
entrailed1599
entest1608
implicit1608
folden1612
inextricate?1615
intertissueda1616
complicatea1626
enwreathed1631
interwoven1642
inwoven1667
intertwineda1680
plectilea1682
well-wove1690
implicated1761
osiered1820
inwrought1824
complected1828
impleached1829
internetted1849
enlaced1851
threaded1853
interknit1885
interwrought1895
pleached1896
interweaved1898
1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 780 This way and that they lurched, with interwrought limbs.
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