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# interleave

«interleave» in Mova's school dictionary: **to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (interleave, interleaves, interleaved, interleaving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To interleave things is to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two piles of cards one by one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#m1)

2) To interleave a book is to put blank or extra pages between its pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In study skills, interleaving means mixing different kinds of practice problems together instead of doing one kind at a time, which research suggests helps learning. In computing it means mixing two streams of data. Phrases: «interleave A with B», «interleaved practice».

### examples

- Interleave the red and black cards so they alternate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x1)
- The teacher interleaved addition and subtraction questions on the sheet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x2)
- Interleaved practice helps you remember better than doing one type at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x3)
- She interleaved the photos with tissue paper to protect them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x4)
- The old diary was interleaved with pressed flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x5)
- The computer interleaves the two sounds so they play together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x6)

### note

Past form «interleaved». Mostly used in study, printing and computing; not an everyday word. Pattern: A, B, A, B, like a zip.

### In the corpora

- [On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart even by two cars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/7-living-with-friction/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «interleave» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.