Meaning of interthread | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
   transitive
2. To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
   transitive
3. To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
   transitive
4. To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
   transitive
5. To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
   intransitive
6. To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.
   intransitive

Examples

“the interthreading of warp and weft”

“a woven maze of tiny glittering lines, exquisitely inter-threaded”

“under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar”

“Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.”

“silk fabrics interthreaded with gold and silver”

“Why wasn’t it a fine thing to be ready with your money? Why wasn’t it good to share⟳ your food an’ drink⟳? She had never had the courage to ask⟳ Robert to explain⟳, and now as she thought of Mrs. Morphy’s generosity, interthreaded with her thought was a remembrance of this saying of Robert’s.”

“1922, Grant Showerman, Horace and His Influence⟳, London: Harrap, Introduction, p. xiii, The myriad and mysterious interthreading of motive and action, of cause and effect, presents to the near vision no semblance of a pattern, and the whole web is so confused and meaningless that the mind⟳ grows to doubt⟳ the presence of design⟳, and becomes skeptical of the necessity, or even the importance, of any single strand.”

“I clearly remember⟳ the evenings I went to gather a friend from choir practice. I could hear⟳ the music from streets away—interthreaded voices cast⟳ into the immense night,”

“the black moor, interthreaded with briny waters”

“The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […]”

“The sensuous reality which interthreads and supports all the gropings of my imagination […]”

“The divine interthreads the earthly in these plays:”

“[…] Christianity is slowly but steadily, and as surely, interthreading her bright woof-lines into the texture of national and political, as well as social life:”

“an immense lake of ceaselessly interthreading grays and silvers”

“[…] we know⟳ how [every neuron’s] dendrites and axons interthread with other nerve cells.”

“The traditions of thought and practice found today in the region weave together local and exogenous strands, in a variegated fabric […]. Indigenous and exogenous marriage systems, methods of praise⟳ and prayer, food and drink⟳ taboos, and dress codes all interthread, but not in a static or homogeneous way.”

“One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro, Delicately and imperceptibly, Now swaying gently in a row, Now interthreading slow and rhythmically,”

“We watched the little double-decked tram-cars gliding by, the opposing, interthreading streams of pedestrians, and a fleet of coal barges coming up the river […]”

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