imbrications

im·bri·cate (

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adj.

Having regularly arranged, overlapping edges, as roof tiles or fish scales.

v. im·bri·cat·ed, im·bri·cat·ing, im·bri·cates

v.tr.

To overlap in a regular pattern.

v.intr.

To be arranged with regular overlapping edges.

[Latin imbrictus, covered with roof tiles, from imbrex, imbric-, roof tile, from imber, imbr-, rain.]

imbri·cation n.

imbricate

adj [ˈɪmbrɪkɪt -ˌkeɪt] also imbricated

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Architect relating to or having tiles, shingles, or slates that overlap

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany (of leaves, scales, etc.) overlapping each other

vb [ˈɪmbrɪˌkeɪt]

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) (tr) to decorate with a repeating pattern resembling scales or overlapping tiles

[from Latin imbricāre to cover with overlapping tiles, from imbrex pantile]

imbricately adv

imbrication n

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Verb	1.	imbricate - place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles" lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" imbricate - overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate"
	2.	imbricate - overlap; "The roof tiles imbricate" overlap - extend over and cover a part of; "The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city" imbricate - place so as to overlap; "imbricate the roof tiles"
Adj.	1.	imbricate - used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles imbricated phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

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The object in the poem you must focus on is me," Lederer maintains at one early point, but that is only because within the shifting imbrications of connection and affect that compose the speaker's references the Self comes to seem a small thing.

The Heaven-Sent Leaf by Waldrep, G.C. / West Branch

While Invention of Suspicion is a splendid book--perhaps the single best recent study of the imbrications of law and literature in Tudor England--like most works in this field, it doesn't know enough about the legal world outside the chambers of postmedieval common law.

The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and ... by Shuger, Debora K. / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

2 is a collection that illustrates the imbrications of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender in pop culture through accessible language and unwavering wit.

Interrogating pop culture by Miranda, Leticia / Colorlines Magazine

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