Interleave (Verb)
Meaning 1
Provide (books) with blank leaves.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The publisher chose to interleave the text with blank sheets and photographs throughout the entire novel.
- In the era of handwritten notes and marginalia, publishers used to interleave their books with generously spaced blank pages.
- Some specialty printers still interleave books with pages of tracing paper to allow the reader to re-create illustrations.
- To enhance user experience, this sketchbook was interleaved with alternating pages of graph paper and lined paper.
- Ex-libris books from the 19th century were often interleaved with white paper, meant for annotations, facing the printed pages.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The disk formatting process helps to interleave the sectors on the magnetic circular patterns to prevent data loss during recording.
- The computer program selects a specific algorithm to interleave the sectors on the disk surface to achieve optimal data storage capacity.
- To improve data retrieval efficiency, the disk operating system is designed to interleave the sectors on the concentric tracks of the circular disk.
- The disk sector interleaving technique is used to interleave the sectors in a specific pattern to minimize data transfer errors.
- Engineers use a disk mapping technique to help interleave the sectors on the disk surface and guide the storing and recording of digital data efficiently.
Meaning 3
Intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The bookbinder carefully interleaved acid-free tissue paper between the delicate illustrations to prevent damage.
- To protect the antique photographs, conservators interleaved them with special transparent covers to minimize fading and deterioration.
- Each page of the limited edition art book was interleaved with a thin sheet of vellum to create a sense of elegance and sophistication.
- The museum's collection of rare prints required interleaving with archival-quality paper to maintain their stability and longevity.
- Before storing the watercolors, the curator interleaved them with rigid mats to shield them from physical stress and environmental factors.