What's the difference between interweave and plait?

Interweave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.
  • (v. t.) To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tate Modern, London, 16 October to 9 March, tate.org.uk Australia The complex art traditions of this remarkable continent – from Aboriginal dreamings and immigrant Romantic painters to the visionary Sidney Nolan – interweave in what promises to be a compelling epic spanning centuries of landscape and myth.
  • (2) These structural features support the idea that pyridoxine-biosynthetic genes are members of complex operons, perhaps to interweave coenzyme biosynthesis genetically with other metabolic processes.
  • (3) The analysis of last years is showing stronger a interweave from clinical Psychology and clinical medicine.
  • (4) After an analysis of the complex interweaving reactions of laser on biological materials, the laser applications in medicine and surgery are reviewed by the author.
  • (5) The kind of total darkness that enfolds the Welsh seaside town of "Llareggub" at the opening of Dylan Thomas's wonderful mid-century "play for voices" , which interweaves the thoughts and words of upwards of 60 characters over one day, is lost to the modern world.
  • (6) Published in their original handwritten form, the minutes of meetings of the Bank’s Court of Directors from 1914 to 45 , and of another key decision-making body, the Committee of the Treasury, from 1914 to 1931 , reveal a rich interweaving of the Earth-shattering and the mundane, which carried several echoes of the most recent crisis period of 2007-09 – minutes from which were released by the Bank on Tuesday.
  • (7) The light-microscopic appearance of a background fibrillary matrix imparting a "neural" appearance was the result of the interweaving of myriad cell processes filled with thin cytoplasmic filaments possessing fusiform densities.
  • (8) In view of the intricate interweaving of the various factions, the shifting alliances and complexity of the front lines in Syria , communication between Russia and the US on the precise territory subject to a ceasefire will have to be tightly co-ordinated.
  • (9) The operationalization of the model is based upon the interweaving of the role dimensions of the CNS, the goals of case management, and the components of collaborative practice into patient care.
  • (10) An attempt is made to analyze the complex interweaving of psychological, religious, cultural, and sociological factors in the precipitation of the outbreak.
  • (11) This study was carried out by a large group of workers in the Institute of Anatomy in Prague, with close and mutual interweaving of their contributed works.
  • (12) The structure of the diaphragm was revealed thus to be composed of radial fibrils of 7 nm in diameter, interweaving in a central mesh, and creating by their geometric distribution, wedge-shaped channels around the periphery of the pore.
  • (13) Here the use of EM has provided a direct visualization of the form and architecture of coaggregates revealing a dense interweaving of presynaptic filaments and dsDNA.
  • (14) Guides Dr David Mathieson and Dr Justin Byrne interweave history with the moving story of John Cornford , a British man (and Darwin’s great grandson) who helped beat back Franco’s army.
  • (15) Clinical material is presented which demonstrates typical forms of identification, and the interweaving of these motives is shown.
  • (16) The mature parasite often exhibited a highly invaginated surface contour with the result that the cytoplasm of the host cell and parasite became intimately interdigitated, this interweaving is unlikely to be recognized in light microscopic studies.
  • (17) Fifth, in the inner and outer plexiform layers, numerous filamentous branchlets extend 20 microns or more from the radial trunk, interweaving with branchlets from nearby Müller cells to form dense and continuous strata.
  • (18) In the inferior layer the fibres leave their formation, run diagonally in the direction of the trophoblast and interweave with each other to a mat of fibrils at the border to the trophoblast.
  • (19) The interweaving of the properties of these Ca2+ channels, with their spatial distributions and their influence upon other channel types, acts to transduce and integrate information within cells.
  • (20) Reticulin staining of the fibrous trabeculae in the posterior (scleral) part of the lamina revealed a structure composed of interweaving skeins of collagen fibres frequently arranged tangentially around the canals, 40-220 microns in diameter, through which optic nerve axons pass.

Plait


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
  • (n.) A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
  • (v. t.) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
  • (v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wearing an open denim shirt, with her hair pulled into two plaits, she looks like the rebel she has always been.
  • (2) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
  • (3) Investigation on fixation of muscular tendons to the skeleton has demonstrated that in some cases tendinous filaments plait into the periosteum and terminate in it, while in other cases not all the tendinous filaments terminate at the level of the periosteum, but some of them penetrate into the bone.
  • (4) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
  • (5) As I had very long hair in plaits, I would roll them up into two buns and play Leia .
  • (6) The census shows hundreds of different occupational titles for women, including married women working in agriculture, artificial flower-making, chemical working, cigar-making, warehouse supervising, the lithograph trade, meat preserving, straw plaiting, manufacturing of food and drink, printing, rabbit fur pulling and even medical galvanising.
  • (7) The story of Noah is written by two sources – the "J" writer, older and more folkloric, and the "Priestly writer" most interested in getting Judaism into a regular religious shape – both of which have been plaited together as best they could by later editors.
  • (8) It was made of a shield of plaited material strapped to the animal's body to "cover the genital parts without interfering with the animal's excretions".
  • (9) Around the world, hair plaited in unusual ways, we poured our glasses of wine and settled in for the opening episode of season four.
  • (10) Her mother carefully undid Liang Jieyun's plaits, combed out the strands and pinned them into a bun.
  • (11) Girl in Bath, the nude teenager crouching in the bath tub, in a pose both homely and potentially erotic; Hair Combing, the girl standing, body plumply outlined against the long cascade of hair; The Plait, which catches the moment when the daughter is almost a woman but not quite.
  • (12) "As an oral poet, he has a different way of putting clauses together: where a literary poet would strap them all to one finite verb, and make a line that's all plaited and twisted and controlled, an oral poet will grow the clauses out of each other.
  • (13) This is achieved by providing the pumping assembly with articulated lock bolts and locating grips diametrically on the faceplate of the pump over which, to temporarily fix the cover with distributing valves and the pump's diaphragms, a rubber plait is hooked on.
  • (14) Implants of carbon fibre, made by plaiting a tow of 10,000 filaments of Grafil type HT-S, were used to treat strains and ruptures of digital flexor tendons in 46 horses.
  • (15) The longitudinal fibrils do not run only parallel but also cross each other forming spirals (plaits).
  • (16) Hamleys dropped the egregiously prescriptive pink and blue colour scheme; the beauty parlour remains – and why the hell not when you can rinse a tenner out of parents for a French plait while educating girls in the idea that "pampering" is an end in itself?
  • (17) "My best moment was the plaited loaf in week three, because everything went so well.
  • (18) The established religion and the state are tightly plaited together.
  • (19) 8.40pm BST I've only just noticed Mel's special plaits for the final.
  • (20) And, in the same breath, she talks about Deepak Chopra's concept of synchrodestiny (there is a new age strand to her plait of enthusiasms).