imbricate

/'imbrikit/

Thân thiện

The botanist carefully arranged the imbricate leaves in her notebook.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To overlap in a regular pattern: To arrange or be arranged so that adjacent edges or parts cover each other like tiles or scales.
   • To place so as to overlap: To position items with one part covering the edge of another.

2. Adjective:

   • Overlapping or layered: Describing objects, especially leaves, bracts, scales, or tiles, that are arranged in a pattern where each one partly covers the one below it.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:

  • The skilled roofer will imbricate the slate tiles for a watertight seal.
  • The scales on a pine cone imbricate to protect the seeds inside.

• Adjective:

  • The bud was covered with imbricate brown scales.
  • The artist studied the imbricate pattern of fish scales.

Advanced Usage

• "Imbricated" (Adjective): Often used as a synonym for the adjective form, meaning arranged in an overlapping order.
  • The fossil showed an imbricated arrangement of bony plates.

Variants and Related Words

• Imbrication (Noun): The state of being imbricated; an overlapping arrangement.
  • The imbrication of the roof tiles was both functional and decorative.

Synonyms

• Overlap (Verb/Adjective): To lie over and partly cover something else; having parts that cover each other.
• Shingled (Adjective): Covered with or consisting of overlapping tiles or boards.
• Tessellate (Verb): To form or arrange in a mosaic pattern, often without the specific connotation of overlapping edges.

Antonyms

• Abut (Verb): To touch or border upon without overlapping.
• Juxtapose (Verb): To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast, without overlapping.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

Verb

1. overlap
   • The roof tiles imbricate
2. place so as to overlap
   • imbricate the roof tiles

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