interleave

== English == === Alternative forms === interleaf === Etymology === From inter- +‎ leave. === Pronunciation === === Verb === interleave (third-person singular simple present interleaves, present participle interleaving, simple past and past participle interleaved) (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book. 1754, Samuel Johnson, Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, 28 November, 1754, cited in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Augustine Birrell, New York: Dodge, 1896, Volume 1, p. 225,[1] Let a Servitor transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references to save time. This will shorten the work and lessen the fatigue. 1794, Robert Burns, Letter to Mr. James Johnson, Dumfries, 1794, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 305,[2] In the meantime, at your leisure, give a copy of the Museum to my worthy friend, Mr. Peter Hill, bookseller, to bind for me, interleaved with blank leaves, exactly as he did the Laird of Glenriddel’s, that I may insert every anecdote I can learn, together with my own criticisms and remarks on the songs. (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group. (computing, transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === interleave (plural interleaves) An interleaved or interspersed arrangement. the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk