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# interleave

verb (interleave, interleaves, interleaved, interleaving)

«interleave» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To interleave things is to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two piles of cards one by one. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x1)
- The teacher interleaved addition and subtraction questions on the sheet. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x3)
- She interleaved the photos with tissue paper to protect them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x4)
- The old diary was interleaved with pressed flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/#x5)
- The computer interleaves the two sounds so they play together. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «interleave» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interleave/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«interleave» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/interleave.html) on Mova free.