interleave

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb provide (books) with blank leaves
verb intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data
verb intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations

From inter- + leave.

[A10-87] To perform the paraffin test, layers of warm liquid paraffin, interleaved with layers of gauze for reinforcement, are brushed or poured on the suspect’s skin. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
Manston did not need to be told that the shabby marble-covered book which he held in his hand, opening endways and interleaved with blotting-paper, was an old reporting-book. — Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy
As the range of accurate information extends, as the dust heap of old records, private as well as public, is sifted more narrowly, as the antique habit of taking things readily for granted disappears, the novel becomes more and more an arrangement of genuine facts and circumstances, interleaved by such fiction as the skill and imagination of the author can produce. — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall

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