intercalate

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But he was not born to live continually in outland parts, loving rather to intercalate fierce adventures between spells of home-keeping.

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  1. transitive verb To insert (a day or month) in a calendar.
  2. transitive verb To insert, interpose, or interpolate.

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  • Results suggest that CoQ10 might intercalate between lipid molecules and perturb the bilayer structure. amide coenzymeq10 cytc duraquinone flavin heme ir liposome polyalanine raman resonanceraman ubiquinone uvrr CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • During DNA replication, these compounds can insert or intercalate between adjacent base pairs e.g. ethidium —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • We were enabled by aid of the labours of Prof. Sedgwick and Sir Roderick Murchison to intercalate, in 1838, the marine strata of the Devonian period, with their fossil shells, corals, and fish, between the Silurian and Carboniferous rocks. —  The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
  • The present appears the fittest place in which to intercalate remarks concerning them. —  Luck or Cunning?
  • Or yet again she'd intercalate a touch, —  Toward the Gulf
 

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  1. Latin intercalāre, intercalāt- : inter-, inter- + calāre, to proclaim; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin intercalatus, past participle of intercalare (later Italian intercalare = Spanish Portuguese intercalar = French intercaler), proclaim the insertion of a day or month in a calendar, from inter, between, + calare, call: see calends.
 

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/ɪnˈtərkəleɪt/
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