Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To set or put between. Daniel, Civil Wars, viii.
  • To diversify or adorn (a thing) by placing or setting objects about or upon it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To set between or among.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Between sets.
  • verb To set between or among.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ set

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Examples

  • The GOP unleashed a period of willful negligence, ignorance and unaccountabilty upon the american population over the past eight years and a truthful, accountable president that is actually looking out for the nations best interset is frightening to these xenophobic, extremely bigoted republicans.

    Obama says reform a 'matter of necessity' 2009

  • That is only a 9 year 4 month pay back with NO operating costs and NO interset.

    They're growing wild now (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The Democrats are not interested in controlling costs or helping average Americans obtain health insurance ... they're just looking for more ways to expand their own power and that of their special interset groups.

    Senate health care bill price tag: $849 billion, CBO says 2009

  • I found that the ‘JD/MBA’ combo definitely arises interset and increases marketability both in business and in law.

    My Brand (As a Joint Student) : Law is Cool 2009

  • That is only a 9 year 4 month pay back with NO operating costs and NO interset.

    They're growing wild now (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Vocational training firms are among the few segments in the education space that do not face regulatory hurdles, he said, a main reason for funds' interset in these companies.

    TermLease Raises Funds for Expansion Deepti Chaudhary of Mint 2011

  • I would go even further and argue that an interset in academic matters in general is enhanced by the controversial nature of the subject matter.

    3….2….1…. 2008

  • We can surpass this small number that supports this special interset group and show the region what the people of Waterloo Region really think!

    Stop Waterloo Region from publicly funding Planned Parenthood Suzanne 2006

  • The house has been restored by the Marquis de la Vega, according to his notion of an old Spanish house, and has the pleasantest small patio in the world, looked down into from a carved wooden gallery, with a pavement of red tiles interset with Moorish tiles of divers colors.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Both slopes are pleasantly wooded, and tall beeches, interset here and there with pines -- a pretty contrast in the spring -- spread their boughs over the road; which is cut cornice-wise, with a low parapet hedge to protect it along the outer side, where the ground falls steeply to the water-meadows, that wind like a narrow green riband edged by the stream with twinkling silver.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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