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Interpenetrate   Listen
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Interpenetrate  v. i.  To penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts.
Interpenetrating molding (Arch.), in late Gothic architecture, a decoration by means of moldings which seem to pass through solid uprights, transoms, or other members; often, two sets of architectural members penetrating one another, in appearance, as if both had been plastic when they were put together.






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"Interpenetrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, ...
— Youth • Joseph Conrad

... days are like swift shuttles in the loom, In which time weaves the warp and woof of fate; Its varied threads that interpenetrate The pattern woven, picture bride and groom, A life-like scene in their own happy home. There are some frayed and shaded strands, fair Kate, But lines of purest gold illuminate Our wedded lot, as stars the heavenly dome, And come what may, sunshine or chilling rain, Prosperity and peace ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 • Various

... are words; I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with theirs—my name is nothing to them; Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman

... his flock: A Something to be guided by ideals— That in themselves are simple and serene— Of noble deed to foster noble thought, And noble thought to image noble deed, Till deed and thought shall interpenetrate, Making life lovelier, till we come to doubt Whether the perfect beauty that escapes Is beauty of deed or thought or some high thing Mingled of both, a greater boon than either: Thus we have seen in the retreating tempest The victor-sunlight merge ...
— Lundy's Lane and Other Poems • Duncan Campbell Scott

... dovetailing; embolism. intermediary, intermedium^; go between, bodkin^, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf. partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment^; party wall, panel, room divider. halfway house. V. lie between, come between, get between; intervene, slide in, interpenetrate, permeate. put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave, interlard, interdigitate, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Interpenetrate" :   diffuse, spiritise, spiritize, permeate, riddle, interpenetration, penetrate, perforate, imbue, pervade



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