Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being imbricate; an overlapping of the edges (real or simulated), like that of tiles or shingles.
- noun Masonry laid in ornamental designs, in stone of various colors, brick, terra-cotta, or a combination of these materials.
- noun A hollow resembling that of a gutter-tile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a set of
tiles orshingles thatoverlap like thescales of afish - noun medicine overlapping of layers of
tissue inwound closure orcorrectional surgery - noun geology a
sedimentary deposition in which small,flat stones aretiled in the same direction so that theyoverlap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Disney products specifically have been singled out in the past for their imbrication in this oppressive system.
Randall Amster: Schlock Doctrine: Where, and by Whom, Was Your Christmas Made? 2010
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Disney products specifically have been singled out in the past for their imbrication in this oppressive system.
Schlock Doctrine: Where, and by Whom, Was Your Christmas Made? 2010
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Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses.
G.I. Joe 2009
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Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house.
G.I. Joe 2009
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Second, paying attention to the imbrication of new stuff upon the still living old.
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Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Disney products specifically have been singled out in the past for their imbrication in this oppressive system.
Randall Amster: Schlock Doctrine: Where, and by Whom, Was Your Christmas Made? 2009
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Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Unlike Janet's imbrication in the landscape, which makes it impossible to separate her body from its surroundings, Jack's performance requires hyper-consciousness, an ongoing adjustment of the self to other's expectations.
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Unlike Janet's imbrication in the landscape, which makes it impossible to separate her body from its surroundings, Jack's performance requires hyper-consciousness, an ongoing adjustment of the self to other's expectations.
Haweswater 2008
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