<B>interval, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the time between. <BR> <I>Ex. In their school they have an interval of fifteen minutes for recess. She has intervals of freedom from worry. There is an interval of a week between Christmas and New Year's Day.</I> (SYN) pause, break. <DD><B> 2. </B>the space between things; intervening space. <BR> <I>Ex. an interval of ten feet between trees. (Figurative.) The interval was immense between discontent and rebellion (Macaulay). (Figurative.) There seems to be no interval between greatness and meanness (Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Especially British.) an intermission in the theater. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Music.) the difference in pitch between two tones. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Military.) the prescribed distance between men or lines of men in formation. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=intervale.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>at intervals,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>now and then. </I> <I>Ex. There was a drizzling rain falling at intervals.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>here and there. <BR> <I>Ex. Villages are located at intervals along the river. There are trees at intervals of ten feet.</I> </DL>
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<B>intervale, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a low, level tract of land in North America along a river or between hills. </DL>
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<B>intervalic</B> or <B>intervallic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a musical interval or intervals. <BR> <I>Ex. I always compose as it were in syllables, not with words. You might say I am an intervalic composer (Igor Stravinsky).</I> </DL>
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<B>intervalometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device in a photographic camera which can be preset to make exposures at regular intervals. It is used especially in aerial photography. </DL>
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<B>intervein, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to intersect with or as with veins. </DL>
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<B>intervene, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-vened,</B> <B>-vening.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to come between; be between. <BR> <I>Ex. A week intervenes between Christmas and New Year's Day.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to come between persons or groups to help settle a dispute; act as intermediary. <BR> <I>Ex. The President was asked to intervene in the coal strike.</I> (SYN) mediate, intercede. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Law.) to enter as a third party into a lawsuit or other legal action. noun <B>intervener,</B> <B>intervenor.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="intervenient">
<B>intervenient, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>intervening, as in place, time, order, or action. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=incidental.</B> </DL>
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<B>intervening sequence,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a segment of DNA that has no specific genetic code; intron. <BR> <I>Ex. The genes of higher plants and animals and their viruses contain "intervening sequences," segments that are snipped out of the intermediary between DNA and protein synthesis and thus are not represented in any protein product (Julie Ann Miller).</I> </DL>
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<B>intervention, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an intervening or interfering in any affair, so as to affect its course or issue. <BR> <I>Ex. The strike was settled by the intervention of the President.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>interference by one nation in the affairs of another. <DD><B> 3. </B>an intervening thing, event, or period of time. </DL>
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<B>interventional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with intervention. </DL>
<A NAME="interventionism">
<B>interventionism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the favoring of intervention, especially in international affairs. </DL>
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<B>interventionist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who favors intervention, especially in the affairs of another country. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Medicine.) a person who favors medical intervention in the course of a disease rather than leaving the patient to nature. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>favoring intervention. <BR> <I>Ex. interventionist foreign policy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with intervention or interventionists. </DL>
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<B>interventor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in Latin America) a person appointed by a government to intervene in the affairs of a company, agency, or other organization, during a time of dispute. <BR> <I>Ex. The Castro regime appointed an "interventor" to run Cuban Telephone Co. (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a church official appointed to act as a mediator in ecclesiastical affairs. </DL>
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<B>interventricular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between the ventricles of the heart or brain. </DL>
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<B>intervertebral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between the vertebrae. <BR> <I>Ex. intervertebral cartilages, the intervertebral joint.</I> adv. <B>intervertebrally.</B> </DL>
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<B>intervertebral disk</B> or <B>disc,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the mass of fibrous cartilage between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae. </DL>
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<B>interview, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a meeting, generally of persons face to face, to talk over something special. <BR> <I>Ex. Father had an interview with the teacher about my work. The interview, in its various forms, is a basic tool of social research (Science News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a meeting between a reporter and a person from whom information is sought for publication or broadcast. <DD><B> 3. </B>a newspaper, magazine article, or broadcast containing the information given at such a meeting. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to have an interview with; meet and talk with, especially to obtain information. <BR> <I>Ex. Reporters from the newspaper interviewed the returning explorers.</I> </DL>
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<B>interviewable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be interviewed. <BR> <I>Ex. The interviewable people ... in the second floor press center were government information people (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>interviewee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is interviewed. <BR> <I>Ex. As has been the case in the Castro interviews, ... the interviewer decisively outtalked the interviewee (John Lardner).</I> </DL>
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<B>interviewer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who interviews. <BR> <I>Ex. Interviewers using this technique are trained to ask the questions precisely ... and to express no attitudes or opinions themselves which might influence the reply of the respondent (Science News).</I> </DL>
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<B>intervisit, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to exchange visits. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the more public social habits of the countries whose peoples intervisit on so large a scale (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>intervisitation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of intervisiting; exchange of visits. <BR> <I>Ex. The rules and rights of intervisitation among prisoners.</I> </DL>
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<B>intervital, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between two lives or stages of existence. </DL>
<A NAME="intervivos">
<B>inter vivos,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) between living persons (used in law of gifts, donations, or gratuities from one living person to another). </DL>
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<B>intervocalic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between vowels. <BR> <I>Ex. an intervocalic consonant.</I> </DL>
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<B>intervolve, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-volved,</B> <B>-volving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to roll, wind, or involve, one within another. <BR> <I>Ex. Mystical dance ... mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved (Milton).</I> </DL>
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<B>interwar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between wars. <BR> <I>Ex. interwar history, the interwar years.</I> </DL>
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<B>interweave, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-wove</B> or <B>-weaved,</B> <B>-woven</B> or <B>-wove</B> or <B>-weaved,</B> <B>-weaving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to weave together; interlace; intertwine. <BR> <I>Ex. to interweave bamboo strips to make a basket. The branches interwove to form an unbroken hedge.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to connect closely; mix together; blend; intermingle. <BR> <I>Ex. to interweave truth with fiction in a story. Different impressions of the city interwove in his memory.</I> noun <B>interweaver.</B> </DL>
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<B>interweavement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of weaving together or intermingling intricately; intertexture. <DD><B> 2. </B>an interwoven texture or structure. </DL>
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<B>interwind, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-wound,</B> <B>-winding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to wind together, one with another; intertwine. </DL>
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<B>interwork, </B>verb, <B>-worked</B> or <B>-wrought,</B> <B>-working.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to work together or combine, one with another. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to work, one upon another; interact. <DD><B> 2. </B>to work or operate intermediately. </DL>
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<B>interwound, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> past tense and past participle of <B>interwind.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="interwove">
<B>interwove, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past tense and past participle of <B>interweave.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="interwoven">
<B>interwoven, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>woven together. <BR> <I>Ex. the interwoven strands of yarn in a blanket.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>mixed together; blended; mingled. <BR> <I>Ex. Its lacework of interwoven light and shade (Charles Kingsley).</I> <DD><I>verb </I> a past participle of <B>interweave:</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Various strands were interwoven to create a colorful pattern.</I> </DL>
<B>intestable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> legally incompetent to make a will. </DL>
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<B>intestacy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fact of being intestate at death. </DL>
<A NAME="intestate">
<B>intestate, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having made no will. <BR> <I>Ex. to die intestate.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>not disposed of by a will. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who has died without making a will. </DL>
