Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 59
Interest (v. t.) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally. [Obs.]
Or rather, gracious sir, Create me to this glory, since my cause Doth interest this fair quarrel. -- Ford.
Interest (v. t.) To cause or permit to share. [Obs.]
The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands. -- Hooker.
Syn: To concern; excite; attract; entertain; engage; occupy; hold.
Interest (n.) Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern ; a desire to learn more about a topic or engage often in an activity.
Note: Interest expresses mental excitement of various kinds and degrees. It may be intellectual, or sympathetic and emotional, or merely personal; as, an interest in philosophical research; an interest in human suffering; the interest which an avaricious man takes in money getting.
So much interest have I in thy sorrow. -- Shak.
Interest (n.) (Finance, Commerce) Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.
Interest (n.) Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
Divisions hinder the common interest and public good. -- Sir W. Temple.
When interest calls of all her sneaking train. -- Pope.
Interest (n.) (Finance) A fee paid for the use of money; a fee paid for a loan; -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.
They have told their money, and let out Their coin upon large interest. -- Shak.
Interest (n.) Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.
You shall have your desires with interest. -- Shak.
Interest (n.) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.
Compound interest, Interest, not only on the original principal, but also on unpaid interest from the time it fell due.
Simple interest, Interest on the principal sum without interest on overdue interest.
Interest (n.) A sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something; "an interest in music" [syn: interest, involvement].
Interest (n.) A reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest" [syn: sake, interest].
Interest (n.) The power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room" [syn: interest, interestingness] [ant: uninterestingness].
Interest (n.) A fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed; "how much interest do you pay on your mortgage?"
Interest (n.) (Law) A right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something; "they have interests all over the world"; "a stake in the company's future" [syn: interest, stake].
Interest (n.) (Usually plural) A social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims; "the iron interests stepped up production" [syn: interest, interest group].
Interest (n.) A diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits" [syn: pastime, interest, pursuit].
Interest (v.) Excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of [ant: bore, tire].
Interest (v.) Be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift" [syn: concern, interest, occupy, worry].
Interest (v.) Be of importance or consequence; "This matters to me!" [syn: matter to, interest].
Interest, estates. The right which a man has in a chattel real, and more particularly in a future term. It is a word of less efficacy and extent than estates, though, in legal understanding, an interest extends to estates, rights and titles which a man has in or out of lands, so that by a grant of his whole interest in land, a reversion as well as the fee simple shall pass. Co. Litt. 345.
Interest, () contracts. The right of property which a man has in a thing, commonly called insurable interest. It is not easy to give all accurate definition of insurable interest. 1 Burr. 480; 1 Pet. R. 163; 12 Wend. 507 16 Wend. 385; 16 Pick. 397; 13 Mass. 61, 96; 3 Day, 108; 1 Wash. C. C. Rep. 409.
Interest, () The policy of commerce and the various complicated. rights which different persons may have in the same thing, require that not only those who have an absolute property in ships and goods, but those also who have a qualified property therein, may be at liberty to insure them. For example, when a ship is mortgaged, after, the mortgage becomes absolute, the owner of the legal estate has an insurable interest, and the mortgagor, on account of his equity, has also an insurable interest. 2 T. R. 188 1 Burr. 489; 13 Mass. 96; 10 Pick. 40 and see 1 T. R. 745; Marsh. Ins. h. t.; 6 Meeson & Welshy, 224.
Interest, () A man may not only insure his own life for the benefit of his heirs or creditors, and assign the benefit of this insurance to others having thus or otherwise an interest in his life, but be may insure the life of another in which he may be interested. Marsh. Ins. Index, h. t.; Park, Ins. Index, h. t.; 1 Bell's Com. 629, 5th ed.; 9 East, R. 72. Vide Insurance.
INTEREST, () evidence. The benefit which a person has in the matter about to be decided and which is in issue between the parties. By the term benefit is here understood some pecuniary or other advantage, which if obtained, would increase the, witness estate, or some loss, which would decrease it.
INTEREST, () It is a general rule that a party who has an interest in the cause cannot be a witness. It will be proper to consider this matter by taking a brief view of the thing or subject in dispute, which is the object of the interest; the quantity of interest; the quality of interest; when an interested witness can be examined; when the interest must exist; how an interested witness can be rendered competent.
INTEREST, () To be disqualified on the ground of interest, the witness must gain or lose by the event of the cause, or the verdict must be lawful evidence for or against him in another suit, or the record must be an instrument of evidence for or against him. 3 John. Cas. 83; 1 Phil. Ev. 36; Stark. Ev. pt. 4, p. 744. But an interest in the question does not disqualify the witness. 1 Caines, 171; 4 John. 302; 5 John. 255; 1 Serg. & R. 82, 36; 6 Binn. 266; 1 H. & M. 165, 168.
INTEREST, () The magnitude of the interest is altogether immaterial, even a liability for the most trifling costs will be sufficient. 5 T. R. 174; 2 Vern. 317; 2 Greenl. 194; 11 John. 57.
INTEREST, () With regard to the quality, the interest must be legal, as contradistinguished from mere prejudice or bias, arising from relationship, friendship, or any of the numerous motives by which a witness may be supposed to be influenced. Leach, 154; 2 St. Tr. 334, 891; 2 Hawk. ch. 46, s. 25. It must be a present, certain, vested interest, and not uncertain and contingent. Dougl. 134; 2 P. Wms. 287; 3 S. & R. 132; 4 Binn. 83; 2 Yeates, 200; 5 John. 256; 7 Mass. 25. And it must have been acquired without fraud. 3 Camp. 380; l M. & S. 9; 1 T. R. 37.
INTEREST, () To the general rule that interest renders a witness incompetent, there are some exceptions. First. Although the witness may have an interest, yet if his interest is equally strong on the other side, and no more, the witness is reduced to a state of neutrality by an equipoise of interest, and the objection to his testimony ceases. 7 T. R. 480, 481, n.; 1 Bibb, R. 298; 2 Mass. R. 108; 2 S. & R. 119; 6 Penn. St. Rep. 322.
INTEREST, () Secondly. In some instances the law admits the testimony of one interested, from the extreme necessity of the case; upon this ground the servant of a tradesman is admitted to prove the delivery of goods and the payment of money, without any release from the master. 4 T. R. 490; 2 Litt. R. 27.
INTEREST, () The interest, to render the witness disqualified, must exist at the time of his examination. A deposition made at a time when the witness had no interest, may be read in evidence, although he has afterwards acquired an interest. 1 Hoff. R. 21.
INTEREST, () The objection to incompetency on the ground of interest may be removed by an extinguishment of that interest by means of a release, executed either by the witness, when he would receive an advantage by his testimony, or by those who have a claim upon him when his testimony would be evidence of his liability. The objection may also be removed by payment. Stark. Ev. pt. 4, p. 757. See Benth. Rationale of Jud. Ev. 628-692, where he combats the established doctrines of the law, as to the exclusion on the ground of interest; and Balance.
INTEREST, MARITIME. () By maritime interest is understood the profit of money lent on bottomry or respondentia, which is allowed to be greater than simple interest because the capital of the lender is put in jeopardy. There is no limit by law as to the amount which may be charged for maritime interest. It is fixed generally by the agreement of the parties.
INTEREST, MARITIME. () The French writers employ a variety of terms in order to distinguish if according to the nature of the case. They call it interest, when it is stipulated to be paid by the month, or at other stated periods. It is a premium, when a gross sum is to be paid at the end of the voyage, and here the risk is the principal object they have in view. When the sum is a per centage on the money lent, they call it exchange, considering it in the light of money lent at one place to be returned in another, with a difference in amount between the sum borrowed and that which is paid, arising from the difference of time and place. When they intend to combine these various shades into one general denomination, they make use of the term maritime profit, to convey their meaning. Hall on Mar. Loans, 56, n.
Interested (v. t.) Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.
Interested (v. t.) Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness; an interested party.
Interested (a.) Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern; "an interested audience"; "interested in sports"; "was interested to hear about her family"; "interested in knowing who was on the telephone"; "interested spectators" [ant: uninterested].
Interested (a.) Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business" [syn: concerned, interested].
Interestedness (n.) The state or quality of being interested; selfishness. -- Richardson.
Interesting (a.) Engaging the
attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as,
an interesting story; interesting news. -- Cowper.
Interesting (a.) Arousing or holding the
attention [ant: uninteresting].
Interestingly (adv.) In an interesting manner.
Interestingly (adv.) In an interesting manner; "when he ceases to be just interestingly neurotic and...gets locked up" -- Time [ant: uninterestingly].
Interestingness (n.) The condition or quality of being interesting. -- A. Smith.
Interestingness (n.) The power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room" [syn: interest, interestingness] [ant: uninterestingness].
Interfacial (a.) (Geom.) Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.
Interfacial (a.) Of or pertaining to an interface.
Interfacial (a.) Relating to or situated at an interface; "an interfacial layer"; "interfacial tension is the surface tension at the interface between two liquids."
Interfascicular (a.) (Anat.) Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.
Interferant (n.) (Law) One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [U.S.]
Interfered (imp. & p. p.) of Interfere.
Interfering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interfere.
Interfere (v. i.) To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; -- usually used with with; as, interfering claims, or commands; workers in a crowded shop may interfere with each other's activity.
Interfere (v. i.) To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose; -- used with in or with; as, to interfere with the way I raise my children.
To interfere with party disputes. -- Swift.
There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions. -- Bp. Warburton.
Interfere (v. i.) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes.
Interfere (v. i.) (Physics) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2.
Interfere (v. i.) (Patent Law) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention ; as, to interfere with another patent.
Syn: To interpose; intermeddle. See Interpose.
Interfere (v.) Come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle; "Your talking interferes with my work!"
Interfere (v.) Get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?" [syn: intervene, step in, interfere, interpose].
Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
Interference (n.) (Physics) The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.
Note: The term is most commonly applied to light, and the undulatory theory of light affords the proper explanation of the phenomena which are considered to be produced by the superposition of waves, and are thus substantially identical in their origin with the phenomena of heat, sound, waves of water, and the like.
Interference (n.) (Patent Law) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention.
Interference figures (Optics), The figures observed when certain sections of crystallized bodies are viewed in converging polarized light; thus, a section of a uniaxial crystal, cut normal to the vertical axis, shows a series of concentric colored rings with a single black cross; -- so called because produced by the interference of luminous waves.
Interference fringe. (Optics) See Fringe.
Interference (n.) A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries [syn: intervention, interference] [ant: noninterference, nonintervention].
Interference (n.) The act of hindering or obstructing or impeding [syn: hindrance, hinderance, interference].
Interference (n.) Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication [syn: noise, interference, disturbance].
Interference (n.) (American football) Blocking a player's path with your body; "he ran interference for the quarterback."
Interference (n.) Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference].
Interferer (n.) One who interferes.
Interferingly (adv.) By or with interference.
Interferometer (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- formerly also called also refractometer, but that word now has a different meaning.
Interferometer (n.) Any measuring instrument that uses interference patterns to make accurate measurements of waves.
Interflow (v. i.) To flow in. [R.] -- Holland. Interfluent
Interfluent (a.) Alt. of Interfluous.
Interfluous (a.) Flowing between or among; intervening. -- Boyle.
Interfolded (p. a.) Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. -- Longfellow.
Interfoliaceous (a.) (Bot.) At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.
Interfoliate (v. t.) To interleave. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Interfollicular (a.) (Anat.) Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland.
Interfretted (a.) (Her.) Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.
Interfulgent (a.) Shining between.
Interfuse (v. t.) To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter.
The ambient air, wide interfused, Embracing round this florid earth. -- Milton.
Interfuse (v. t.) To spread through; to permeate; to pervade. [R.]
Keats, in whom the moral seems to have so perfectly interfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. -- Lowell.
Interfuse (v. t.) To mix up together; to associate. -- H. Spencer.
Interfusion (n.) The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused. -- Coleridge.
Interganglionic (a.) (Anat.) Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.
Interglobular (a.) (Anat.) Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine.
Intergovernmental (a.) 政府間的 Between two or more governments.
// There are plans for another intergovernmental conference in 2024.
Intergraved (imp.) of Intergrave.
Intergraved (p. p.) of Intergrave.
Intergraven () of Intergrave.
Intergraving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intergrave.
Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.
The work itself of the bases, was intergraven. -- 3 Kings vii. 28 (Douay version. ) Interhemal
Interhemal (a.) Alt. of Interhaemal.
Interhaemal (a.) (Anat.) Between the hemal arches or hemal spines.
Interhaemal (n.) (Anat.) An interhemal spine or cartilage.
Interhyal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoidean arch.
Interhyal (n.) (Anat.) An interhyal ligament or cartilage.
Interim (n.) The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.
All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. -- Shak.
Interim (n.) (Hist.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.
Interim (a.) Serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement."
Interim (n.) The time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn: interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag].
Interim. () In the mean time; in the meanwhile. For example, one appointed between the time that a person is made bankrupt, to act in the place of the assignee until the assignee shall be appointed, is an assignee ad interim. 2 Bell's Com. 355.
Interior (a.) Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
Interior (a.) Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.
Interior angle (Geom.), An angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle.
Interior planets (Astron.), Those planets within the orbit of the earth.
Interior screw, A screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.
Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
Interior (n.) That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
Interior (n.) The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
Department of the Interior, That department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
Secretary of the Interior, The cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
Interior (a.) Situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" [ant: exterior].
Interior (a.) Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national].
Interior (a.) Located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle" -- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it" -- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness" -- A.R.Gurney,Jr. [syn: inner, interior, internal].
Interior (a.) Inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth."
Interior (a.) Of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" [syn: interior, midland, upcountry].
Interior (n.) The region that is inside of something [syn: inside, interior] [ant: exterior, outside].
Interior (n.) The inner or enclosed surface of something [syn: inside, interior] [ant: exterior, outside].
Interior (n.) The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849 [syn: Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI].
Interior, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 77
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.344865 sq. miles (3.483183 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31620
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.725197 N, 101.983114 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57750
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Interior, SD
Interior
Interior Architecture (n.) 室內建築設計 Is the design of a building or shelter inside out, type home that can be fixed. It can also be the initial design and plan for use, then later redesign to accommodate a changed purpose, or a significantly revised design for adaptive reuse of the building shell. [2] The latter is often part of sustainable architecture practices, conserving resources through "recycling" a structure by adaptive redesign. Generally referred to as the spatial art of environmental design, form and practice, interior architecture is the process through which the interiors of buildings are designed, concerned with all aspects of the human uses of structural spaces. Put simply, Interior Architecture is the design of an interior in architectural terms.
Compare: Accommodate
Accommodate (v.) [With object] 能容納；能提供……膳宿；（飛機等）可搭載；使適應；使相符[（+to）] (Of a building or other area) Provide lodging or sufficient space for.
‘The cottages accommodate up to six people.’
Accommodate (v.) [With object] Fit in with the wishes or needs of.
‘Any language must accommodate new concepts’
Accommodate (v.) (Accommodate to) [No object] Adapt to.
‘Making users accommodate to the realities of today's marketplace.’
Compare: Cottage
Cottage (n.) [C] 農舍，小屋；（學校，療養院等內部的）單幢住所；（度假）別墅 A small house, typically one in the country.
‘A holiday cottage.’
Cottage (n.) A simple house forming part of a farm, used by a worker.
‘Farm cottages.’
Cottage (n.) (British) (Informal) (In the context of casual homosexual encounters) A public toilet.
Interiority (n.) 內部；內在性 State of being interior.
Interiorly (adv.) Internally; inwardly. Interjacence
Interjacence (n.) Alt. of Interjacency.
Interjacency (n.) The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between.
England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed. -- Sir M. Hale.
Interjacent (a.) Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Interjaculate (v. t.) To ejaculate parenthetically. [R.] -- Thackeray.
Interjangle (v. i.) To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] -- Daniel.
Interjected (imp. & p. p.) of Interject.
Interjecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interject.
Interject (v. t.) To throw in between; to insert; to interpose. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Interject (v. i.) To throw one's self between or among; to come between; to interpose. -- Sir G. Buck.
Interject (v.) To insert between other elements; "She interjected clever remarks" [syn: interject, come in, interpose, put in, throw in, inject].
Interjection (n.) The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
The interjection of laughing. -- Bacon.
Interjection (n.) (Gram.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation.
An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech. -- Earle.
How now!
interjections? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he! --
Shak.
Interjection (n.) An abrupt emphatic exclamation
expressing emotion [syn: ejaculation, interjection].
Interjection (n.) The action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts [syn: interjection, interposition, interpolation, interpellation].
Interjection (n.) (Formal) [ C or U ] 插話 An occasion when someone interrupts someone else, or the interruptions themselves.
// Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections from the audience.
Interjection (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) (Language) 感歎詞 A word that is used to show a short sudden expression of emotion.
// "Hey!" is an interjection.
Interjectional (a.) Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark.
Interjectional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an interjection; consisting of natural and spontaneous exclamations.
Certain of the natural accompaniments of interjectional speech, such as gestures, grimaces, and gesticulations, are restrained by civilization. -- Earle.
Interjectionalize (v. t.) To convert into, or to use as, an interjection. -- Earle.
Interjectionally (adv.) In an interjectional manner. -- G. Eliot.
Interjectionary (a.) Interjectional.
Interjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Interjoin.
Interjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interjoin.
Interjoin (v. t.) To join mutually; to unite. [R.] -- Shak.
Interjoist (n.) (Carp.) The space or interval between two joists. -- Gwilt.
Interjoist (n.) A middle joist or crossbeam. -- De Colange.
Interjunction (n.) A mutual joining. [R.]
Interknit (v. t.) To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.
Interknow (v. t.) To know mutually. [Obs.]
Interknowledge (n.) Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Interlaced (imp. & p. p.) of Interlace.
Interlacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interlace.
Interlace (v. t. & i.) To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.
Severed into stripes That interlaced each other.-- Cowper.
The epic way is everywhere interlaced with dialogue. -- Dryden.
Interlacing arches (Arch.), Arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolts intersect and seem to be interlaced.
Interlace (v.) Spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts" [syn: intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace] [ant: untwine].
Interlace (v.) Hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: lock, interlock, interlace].
Progressive coding
Interlace
Interlaced image
Non-interlaced
(Or "interlacing") An aspect of a graphics storage format or transmission algorithm that treats bitmap image data non-sequentially in such a way that later data adds progressively greater resolution to an already full-size image. This contrasts with sequential coding.
Progressive coding is useful when an image is being sent across a slow communications channel, such as the Internet, as the low-resolution image may be sufficient to allow the user to decide not to wait for the rest of the file to be received.
In an interlaced GIF89 image, the pixels in a row are stored sequentially but the rows are stored in interlaced order, e.g. 0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15. Each vertical scan adds rows in the middle of the gaps left by the previous one.
PNG interlaces both horizontally and vertically using the "{Adam7" method, a seven pass process named after Adam M. Costello.
Interlacing is also supported by other formats. JPEG supports a functionally similar concept known as Progressive JPEG. [How does the algorithm differ?] JBIG uses progressive coding.
See also progressive/ sequential coding. ["Progressive Bi-level Image Compression, Revision 4.1", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG9, CD 11544, 1991-09-16]. (2000-09-12)
Interlacement (n.) The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced. Interlamellar
Interlamellar (a.) Alt. of Interlaminar.
Interlaminar (a.) (Anat.) Between lammellae or laminae; as, interlamellar spaces.
Interlaminated (a.) Placed between, or containing, laminae or plates.
Interlamination (n.) The state of being interlaminated.
Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events. [R.] -- Harvey.
Interlarded (imp. & p. p.) of Interlard.
Interlarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interlard.
Interlard (v. t.) 使夾雜，使混合；貫穿其中 To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. [Obs.]
Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded. -- Drayton.
Interlard (v. t.) Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.
The English laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. -- Sir M. Hale.
They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. -- J. Philips.
Interlard (v.) Introduce one's writing or speech with certain expressions [syn: {intersperse}, {interlard}].