| 单词 | interstice |
| 释义 | interstice (once / 4831 pages) n Use the noun interstice to mean a tiny gap, like the interstice between your curtains which lets in a thin slice of morning sunlight. An interstice in the clouds might reveal blue sky, and an interstice in your kitchen wall could account for the mouse problem you've had lately. Though interstice is useful for talking about these narrow spaces or openings between things, it's much more commonly used in its plural form. For example, you might complain that in the interstices of your busy day you have to catch up on returning phone calls. The Latin root is interstitium, which literally means "space between." WORD FAMILYinterstice: interstices, interstitial+/interstitial: interstitially USAGE EXAMPLESThrough the minutiae of image and sound, Reichardt shows what we usually brush past in life -- its interstices, its feeling. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) Riis loved the interstices—the alleys with no names, the rickety wooden structures hidden behind large buildings, and all the people with no fixed abode. The New Yorker(Oct 01, 2016) These slow games, as the Davidson College professor and video game researcher Mark Sample told me, “fit into the interstices of our lives.” New York Times(Aug 09, 2016) 1n small opening between things Hyper opening a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made 2n a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ the interstices of a network Hypo|Hyper areola small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
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