Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being imbricate; an overlapping of the edges (real or simulated), like that of tiles or shingles.
- n. Masonry laid in ornamental designs, in stone of various colors, brick, terra-cotta, or a combination of these materials.
- n. A hollow resembling that of a gutter-tile.
Wiktionary
- n. a set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish
- n. medicine overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery
- n. geology a sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
Etymologies
- imbricate + -ion (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Disney products specifically have been singled out in the past for their imbrication in this oppressive system.”
The Huffington Post: Randall Amster: Schlock Doctrine: Where, and by Whom, Was Your Christmas Made?
“Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses.”
“Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house.”
“Second, paying attention to the imbrication of new stuff upon the still living old.”
“Unlike Janet's imbrication in the landscape, which makes it impossible to separate her body from its surroundings, Jack's performance requires hyper-consciousness, an ongoing adjustment of the self to other's expectations.”
“Wood, discussing the imbrication of automated production, clockwork dolls, visual apparatuses and”
“However, the imbrication of supernature, consciousness, technology and the uncanny in Castle's own argument suggests other directions of influence and makes causality difficult to locate.”
“The simultaneity in stanza three of exuberant happiness and a heart sorrowful and cloyed underscores this imbrication of eros and death.”
“They propose that this terrane boundary is an example of a broad zone of imbrication of arc crust tectonically mixed within an accretionary complex.”
“This desire to defend the autonomy of the political from a supposed encroachment by neoliberalism is an example of the melancholy attachment to liberal democracy that Brown criticizes: what was once an object of left critique-the imbrication of liberal democracy in the capitalist economy-is repressed to allow a hyperbolic defense of this ambivalently missed object.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘imbrication’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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patterns
ergodic, stochastic, stereopsis, echolocation, holocation, broker, map, intarsia, encipher, ocellus, muslin, mandelbrot set and 159 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Verbalitis
syncretic
anecdotal, phthisis, serendipitous, slapper, syncretic, sesquipedalian, hysteresis, polt, noyade, crocket, irenic, masquerade and 278 more...
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Euphonious Words
The most mellifluous-sounding words.
assemblage, becoming, beleaguer, bucolic, bungalow, chatoyant, comely, conflate, cynosure, dalliance, demesne, demure and 100 more...
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plugging in the fairy dress
I had a prof in undergrad who referred to students' "fairy dress" words -- terms picked up in the first throes of learning theory that students wore out in inappropriate places, like a small child ...
chiasmus, chiasmatic, zeugma, all our relations, thisconnectionofe..., yous, reciprocal, relational, connective, collective, collaborative, oscillation and 28 more...
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Basketry
terms related to baskets
imbrication, weave, spokes, lashing, pannier, straw, birch, creel, bushel, wicker, reed, soaking and 6 more...
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New and Thrilling
punaluan, ontic, arcadia, punctilio, nescience, misprision, episteme, hieratic, rebarbative, vaticinate, isopsephy, imbrication and 59 more...
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teleologos
words of completeness: words of design relating to purpose
claw, raceme, belemnite, fugue, daedal, convert, etiology, semiotics, sgraffito, intent, outtent, stringcourse and 20 more...
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pretentious words i've used in art hi...
fuck, if i don't live for the opportunity to lay down some "weltanschauung."
weltanschauung, historicity, indexicality, epistemological, ontological, paranoiac, metonymic, synecdochical, positivism, universalizing, imbrication, instantiation and 18 more...
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brainstuff
words i make up or use while writing
paramodernism, revenant, transformative, epitelic, affection-image, becoming, becoming-grrl, nomadic, envagination, alchemical, apotropaic, filmgrimage and 36 more...
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Pretentious Hyperboles.
Crack. 100%
imbrication, zeitgeist, peccadillo, consanguinity, sui generis, blandishment, avoirdupois, lubricity, pulsatile, obfuscate
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Doulton's Words
pococurante, ipsedixitism, fetching, imbrication, messidor, valetudinarian, vernorexia, lacustrine, riparian
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