单词 | intermesh |
释义 | intermeshv. intransitive. Of gears, etc.: to mesh or interlock with one another. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (intransitive)] > interlock or interdigitate interlock1632 lock1643 indigitate1835 interdigitate1849 mesh1882 pectinate1884 intermesh1909 1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1928 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 7 (advt.) The light yarns are vibrated to cause them to intermesh in the fabric. 1948 M. 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. 1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 153 The cylinders have square-cut threads which intermesh. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. iii. 201 These chains form an intermeshed net and run in any direction in the free liquid. 1971 Flying Apr. 92/3 Medical records..are not yet intermeshed with airman records. 1971 T. F. Mitchell in Archivum Linguisticum 2 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < v.1909 |
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