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語源

From Latin interspergō, interspersus.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɪntəˈspɜːs/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˌɪntɚˈspɝs/
• (Australian) IPA: /ˌɪntəˈspɜːs/

動詞

intersperse (third-person singular simple present intersperses, present participle interspersing, simple past and past participle interspersed)

1. To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 1991, Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images, page 76:

     For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.

2. (transitive) To scatter or insert something into or among other things.

   Synonym: thread

   When writing, I intersperse details.

   • 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:

     Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.

   • 1985, Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps, page 46:

     Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.

   • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116:

     Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.

3. (transitive) To diversify by placing or inserting other things among something.

   Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.

派生語

関連する語

• interspersed
• interspersion

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “intersperse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “intersperse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• enterprises, entreprises, serpentries