(v. t.) To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.
(v. i.) To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.
(n.) The act intertwining, or the state of being intertwined.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tanycyte shafts extended from the floor of the fourth ventricle into the bundle, and often ran the entire length of the bundle, where they intertwined themselves among neurons and dendrites of the medullary raphe nuclei.
(2) Individuation from the parents is closely intertwined with identity formation; families supportive of young people's separation and individuation more often have identity-achieved young people.
(3) HCA and low-intensity conflict activities will therefore be discussed as one topic, as they were inextricably intertwined.
(4) The biggest technology companies, including Google , Amazon, Apple and Facebook, are increasingly intertwined in our digital lives, particularly through the phones in our pockets.
(5) This is hard to do, for generations of interconnectedness have caused the roots of the village and the camp to become so intertwined that it ceases to make sense to speak of them separately.
(6) Our experiments used intact DNA rings, but we note that linear DNA molecules, by virtue of their subdivision into closed loops or domains in vivo, can intertwine in the same ways.
(7) I find that tragic.” Cruddas is surely right that any account of the intertwined struggle for economic and political power seems missing from these new left accounts that advocate for a basic income on the basis of the end of work.
(8) The following features were found only in high density culture; (v) numerous villous cytoplasmic protrusions developed along the area facing adjacent cells, and seemed to intertwine with each other, and (vi) between the hepatocytes, only abortive junctions were found.
(9) In a section that stressed that Britain has always been and will always be intertwined with Europe, he said it would be rash to assume that continued postwar stability was inevitable.
(10) How it all happened is intertwined with Brown's own character and experience.
(11) Less common is placenta increta, in which placental cotyledons become intertwined with the muscular stroma of the uterus.
(12) Now that America and China are so intertwined as to be essentially one country – a fact you can’t forget here in San Francisco, where everyone is coding apps for phones made in Shenzhen – Ai’s mashup of the two nations’ oppressed minorities reverberates as a call for reckoning beyond national borders.
(13) The reality of antisemitism in Belgium and Europe resembles this rope, with three intertwined ingredients of hate.
(14) The fact that we have become so intertwined and tangled with the leadership issues of the Labour party means we have forgotten the core priorities that we should be doing.
(15) Several fibres insert on the nasal spine and on the sphenomandibular ligament, where the fibres intertwine.
(16) It is clear that the future of our two countries has been, and always will be, intertwined.
(17) Small branches of the invading Sertoli cell processes entered into the lumens of the intertwining swollen tubules and occupied their interior to the point that, finally, they completely engulfed the fragmented spermatid cytoplasm.
(18) Mayeroff (1971) states "from a loose stringing together of ideas a tight fabric emerges; ideas intertwine and tend to reinforce each other, making for a mutual deepening of meaning and gain in precision".
(19) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin , is expected to allow the issue on to the agenda for dinner, reflecting the reality that the fate of the world economy is inextricably intertwined with the risk of a Middle East conflagration.
(20) Encapsulated tumorous mass, formed primarily by spindle-shaped histocytes, displayed either in intertwining, criss-cross or whorled fashion in haematoxylin-eosin-stained sections, were supplementary.
Lace
Definition:
(n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.
(n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
(n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.
(n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage.
(v. t.) To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces.
(v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material; as, cloth laced with silver.
(v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
(v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage).
(v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces; as, these boots lace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Litvinenko died aged 43 after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at a meeting with two Russian men at the Millennium hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, in November 2006.
(2) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(3) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(4) He says he is not bitter but his words are laced with hostility.
(5) Renal calcification following renal vein thrombosis (RVT) has a virtually diagnostic lace-like radiological pattern.
(6) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(7) The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where a rocket laced with a nerve agent fell, killing more than 70 people in one of the worst mass casualty chemical attacks in the six-year war in Syria .
(8) In smears prepared from aspirated material, uniform tumour cells, embedded in a myxoid matrix and partly arranged in a lace-like pattern, were found.
(9) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
(10) A lace used in obstetrics for ligation of umbilicus served as the tourniquet.
(11) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(12) Blood laced with disgrace flows from my hands, feet and side.
(13) • Follow the Guardian's World Cup team on Twitter • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more It was also a night that was laced with controversy.
(14) Sweden's third-largest city is laced with 500km (310 miles) of cycle lanes, more even than in Copenhagen, a short hop across the Öresunds Bridge .
(15) FceRII showed a lace-like pattern irrespective of the distribution of IgE.
(16) Laced stabilizers offer an equal or possibly greater amount of support, are less costly and easier to apply, and can be retightened frequently during activity.
(17) Athletic shoe manufacturers have introduced specialized lacing systems and high-top performance shoes to improve ankle stability.
(18) The distribution of radioactivity between newly synthesized poly(A)-containing and poly(A)-lacing polysomal RNA was altered, but no differences in mRNA half-life were observed in growth compared with effects of sham nephrectomy.
(19) He was reported missing after missing roll call on 30 June 2009, and a huge search operation began immediately, with foot patrols combing the landmine-laced and helicopters flying dozens of missions to look for him from the air.
(20) It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.