MEANING
1. To place sheets, layers, or sections between others in a sequence.
2. To arrange data units from one or more sequences in an alternating or distributed order.
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Words that belong together
- interleave pages
- interleave with blank sheets
On the page
She interleaved the diary pages with the letters written that week.
Blank sheets had been interleaved to protect the drawings.
Nearby words
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Word forms
- Base
- interleave
- Past tense
- interleaved
- Past participle
- interleaved
- Present participle
- interleaving
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- interleave
- Present continuous
- am/is/are interleaving
- Present perfect
- have/has interleaved
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been interleaving
- Past
- interleaved
- Past continuous
- was/were interleaving
- Past perfect
- had interleaved
- Past perfect continuous
- had been interleaving
- Future
- will interleave
- Future continuous
- will be interleaving
- Future perfect
- will have interleaved
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been interleaving
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: interleave; interleaves; interleaved; interleaved; interleaving Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: interleaves.
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