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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INTERDIGITATE

From inter- + Latin digitus (see digit) + -ate1.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INTERDIGITATE

interdigitate  [ˌɪntəˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTERDIGITATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Interdigitate is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb interdigitate in English.

WHAT DOES INTERDIGITATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of interdigitate in the English dictionary

The definition of interdigitate in the dictionary is to interlock like the fingers of clasped hands.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INTERDIGITATE

PRESENT

Present
I interdigitate
you interdigitate
he/she/it interdigitates
we interdigitate
you interdigitate
they interdigitate
Present continuous
I am interdigitating
you are interdigitating
he/she/it is interdigitating
we are interdigitating
you are interdigitating
they are interdigitating
Present perfect
I have interdigitated
you have interdigitated
he/she/it has interdigitated
we have interdigitated
you have interdigitated
they have interdigitated
Present perfect continuous
I have been interdigitating
you have been interdigitating
he/she/it has been interdigitating
we have been interdigitating
you have been interdigitating
they have been interdigitating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I interdigitated
you interdigitated
he/she/it interdigitated
we interdigitated
you interdigitated
they interdigitated
Past continuous
I was interdigitating
you were interdigitating
he/she/it was interdigitating
we were interdigitating
you were interdigitating
they were interdigitating
Past perfect
I had interdigitated
you had interdigitated
he/she/it had interdigitated
we had interdigitated
you had interdigitated
they had interdigitated
Past perfect continuous
I had been interdigitating
you had been interdigitating
he/she/it had been interdigitating
we had been interdigitating
you had been interdigitating
they had been interdigitating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will interdigitate
you will interdigitate
he/she/it will interdigitate
we will interdigitate
you will interdigitate
they will interdigitate
Future continuous
I will be interdigitating
you will be interdigitating
he/she/it will be interdigitating
we will be interdigitating
you will be interdigitating
they will be interdigitating
Future perfect
I will have interdigitated
you will have interdigitated
he/she/it will have interdigitated
we will have interdigitated
you will have interdigitated
they will have interdigitated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been interdigitating
you will have been interdigitating
he/she/it will have been interdigitating
we will have been interdigitating
you will have been interdigitating
they will have been interdigitating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would interdigitate
you would interdigitate
he/she/it would interdigitate
we would interdigitate
you would interdigitate
they would interdigitate
Conditional continuous
I would be interdigitating
you would be interdigitating
he/she/it would be interdigitating
we would be interdigitating
you would be interdigitating
they would be interdigitating
Conditional perfect
I would have interdigitate
you would have interdigitate
he/she/it would have interdigitate
we would have interdigitate
you would have interdigitate
they would have interdigitate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been interdigitating
you would have been interdigitating
he/she/it would have been interdigitating
we would have been interdigitating
you would have been interdigitating
they would have been interdigitating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you interdigitate
we let´s interdigitate
you interdigitate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to interdigitate
Past participle
interdigitated
Present Participle
interdigitating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTERDIGITATE


acetate
ˈæsɪˌteɪt
agitate
ˈædʒɪˌteɪt
capacitate
kəˈpæsɪˌteɪt
cogitate
ˈkɒdʒɪˌteɪt
digitate
ˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt
egurgitate
ɪˈɡɜːdʒɪˌteɪt
excogitate
ɛksˈkɒdʒɪˌteɪt
facilitate
fəˈsɪlɪˌteɪt
flagitate
ˈflædʒɪˌteɪt
hesitate
ˈhɛzɪˌteɪt
imitate
ˈɪmɪˌteɪt
ingurgitate
ɪnˈɡɜːdʒɪˌteɪt
irritate
ˈɪrɪˌteɪt
meditate
ˈmɛdɪˌteɪt
multidigitate
ˌmʌltɪˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt
precipitate
prɪˈsɪpɪˌteɪt
regurgitate
rɪˈɡɜːdʒɪˌteɪt
revegetate
riːˈvɛdʒɪˌteɪt
sagittate
ˈsædʒɪˌteɪt
vegetate
ˈvɛdʒɪˌteɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTERDIGITATE

interdependency
interdependent
interdialectal
interdict
interdict list
interdiction
interdictive
interdictively
interdictor
interdictory
interdiffuse
interdiffusion
interdigital
interdigitation
interdine
interdisciplinarity
interdisciplinary
interdistrict
interdivisional
interdominion

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTERDIGITATE

capitate
cavitate
cryoprecipitate
debilitate
decapitate
delimitate
estate
felicitate
gravitate
habilitate
incapacitate
levitate
militate
nobilitate
palmitate
palpitate
quantitate
rehabilitate
resuscitate
sanitate
suscitate

Synonyms and antonyms of interdigitate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «interdigitate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTERDIGITATE

Find out the translation of interdigitate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of interdigitate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «interdigitate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交错的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

interdigitan
570 millions of speakers

English

interdigitate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

interdigitate
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يشابك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

interdigitate
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

interdigitam
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

interdigitate
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´entrecroisent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Interdigitate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ineinander greifen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

互いに入り込む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

물리는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Interdigitate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

interdigitate
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

interdigitate
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

interdigitate
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

interdigitarsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

interdigitate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

interdigitate
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

interdigitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

interdigitate
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

interdigitate
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

interdigitate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

interdigitate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of interdigitate

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERDIGITATE»

The term «interdigitate» is normally little used and occupies the 133.756 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERDIGITATE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «interdigitate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «interdigitate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about interdigitate

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTERDIGITATE»

Discover the use of interdigitate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to interdigitate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gobbledygook: A Dictionary That's 2/3 Accurate, 1/3 Nonsense ...
colph,. zoophilous,. interdigitate. colph. (KAHLFF) (noun): An indeterminate pause in music. Although not a colph as such, “4'33”,” by experimental composer John Cage, may be the most famous example of this term. For the piece, Cage would ...
William Wilson, 2011
2
The Dinosauria: Second Edition
forms an interdigitate suture with the quadratojugal, whereas in euornithopods the joint is an apparently simple, overlapping arrangement. The caudal process is especially deep and does not contact the quadrate in basal euornithopods.
David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska, 2004
3
Principles of Medical Physiology
The lateral surfaces of the cells bear the lateral cell processes that interdigitate with the corresponding processes of adjacent cells. In between the interdigitations there are small spaces called the lateral intercellular spaces. Lateral spaces ...
Sabyasachi Sircar, 2008
4
Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System
... sarcomere is formed by the organization of thick and thin filaments, composed of the proteins myosin and actin, respectively. The actin filaments are attached at one end but are free along their length to interdigitate with the myosin filaments.
Margareta Nordin, Victor Hirsch Frankel, 2001
5
Solution-processable Molecular and Polymeric Semiconductors ...
The d-spacing values of copolymers 6, 7, 9, and 10 suggest that the n-hexyl and n-octyl side chains may interdigitate. Two possible packing motifs are depicted in Figures 2.17. Figure 2.17B shows a model in which the alkyl side chains do not ...
Hakan Usta, 2008
6
The Physiology of Developing Fish: Viviparity and ...
Maternal and fetal tissues are in direct contact and interdigitate with one another. The egg envelope is absent. The maternal placental epithelium is reduced to a simple columnar epithelium that is underlain by a capillary network and loose ...
Hoar, William Stewart Hoar, David J. Randall, 1988
7
Arthritis and Arthroplasty: The hip
The surgeon should create a high and constant intramedullary pressure that allows the viscous cement to interdigitate in the cancellous bone. Brief and high increases in pressure during cement pressurization are not useful because pressure ...
Thomas E. Brown, Quanjun Cui, William M. Mihalko, 2009
8
Ancient Marine Reptiles
Scapula-coracoidsuture: unfused scapula-coracoidcontact has interdigitate suture anteriorly (0), or apposing surfaces without interdigitation (1). Although all outgroup taxa fuse this suture ontogenetically, an interdigitate suture is present early ...
Jack M. Callaway, Elizabeth L. Nicholls, 1997
9
Botulinum Toxin in Clinical Dermatology
The lower posterior fibers of the depressor anguli oris interdigitate with those muscle fibers of the upper platysma (pars labialis) and cervical fascia that converge toward the lateral oral commissures. There are still some other deeper muscle ...
Anthony V. Benedetto, 2006
10
Encyclopedic Handbook of Biomaterials and Bioengineering: v. ...
In the canine model, bony trabeculae interdigitate with the PTFE filaments in the femoral and tibial tunnels [108]. The high ultimate tensile strength (5300 N) and porosity, allowing for ample tissular ingrowth [109,110], promise long-lasting ...
‎1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTERDIGITATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term interdigitate is used in the context of the following news items.
1
We Ate the Hot Dog Pizzaand Lived
Limp, dead weight that strikes your fingers in a way that makes them instinctively want to interdigitate. It's as though the pizza itself is meeting ... «Daily Beast, Jun 15»
2
Interview: Christin Friedrich Curates German Crowdfunding …
create new possibilities for startups seeking capital, providing an equity piece of a puzzle of interdigitate financing instruments and preparing ... «Crowdfund Insider, Feb 15»
3
The Q&A: J. Gregory Fitz
These are themes that interdigitate with each other, but they are the main ones that we are gearing up for in the coming years. We want the right ... «Texas Tribune, Feb 15»
4
Why are GPs so unhappy?
True, there's lots more that can be done now, but the two areas of practice don't overlap or properly interdigitate any better. It's a failure of ... «Slugger O'Toole, Jan 15»
5
MOVIE REVIEW | "The Zero Theorem" by Terry Gilliam: Hair of the …
... and interdigitate like the swirling psychedelic graffiti that varnishes Leth's ecclesiastical home's architecture. The God-saturated epoch with its ... «Twin Cities Daily Planet, Sep 14»
6
Country Music Singer Kevin Sharp Dead at 43
Limp, dead weight that strikes your fingers in a way that makes them instinctively want to interdigitate. It's as though the pizza itself is meeting ... «Daily Beast, Apr 14»
7
9/11 Truthers Can Be Politicians, Too
Limp, dead weight that strikes your fingers in a way that makes them instinctively want to interdigitate. It's as though the pizza itself is meeting ... «Daily Beast, Apr 14»
8
Crime Fighter?s Dilemma: My Country or My Family?
Limp, dead weight that strikes your fingers in a way that makes them instinctively want to interdigitate. It's as though the pizza itself is meeting ... «Daily Beast, Apr 14»
9
Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. the Campus Thought Police
Limp, dead weight that strikes your fingers in a way that makes them instinctively want to interdigitate. It's as though the pizza itself is meeting ... «Daily Beast, Apr 14»
10
3M, Intel, and SGI immersion cool high density servers in Novec
The two boards are close enough together to interdigitate the DIMMs. (Authors note: Oh go look it up…) This is why the air-cooled version ... «SemiAccurate, Apr 14»

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