INTERLAY Definition & Meaning

interlay

[in-ter-ley]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

interlaid, interlaying

to lay lie between; interpose.
to diversify with something laid lay between or inserted.
to interlay silver with gold.

interlay

verb

(tr) to insert (layers) between; interpose
to interlay gold among the silver
to interlay the silver with gold

noun

material, such as paper, placed between a printing plate and its base, either all over in order to bring it up to type height, or in places in order to achieve the correct printing pressure all over the plate

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of interlay¹

First recorded in 1600–10; inter- + lay ¹

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"They play an incredibly important part," said Jessica Tucker, acting deputy director of the Office of Science Policy at NIH, "in this interlay of local and federal oversight."

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"It was a relief," he said, "to interlay the scenery most familiar to me with the strange world for which I had to draw so much on imagination."

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She knew how to twist ropes of bark for tying the poles, and how to interlay the palm fronds so they would neither leak nor be lifted by the wind.

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interlard interleaf

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