different between amalgamate vs interlard

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgam?tus, past participle of amalgam?re, amalgama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl???me?t/

Verb

amalgamate (third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

   Synonym: mix

   Antonym: separate

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.

2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.

Related terms

• amalgam
• amalgamation

Translations

Adjective

amalgamate (comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate)

1. Coalesced; united; combined.

Further reading

• amalgamate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

amalgamate

1. second-person plural present of amalgamare
2. second-person plural imperative of amalgamare
3. feminine plural of amalgamato

English

Etymology

From the literal sense of “to intersperse with alternate layers of lard (and/or other fats)”, existing since Middle English, from Middle French entrelarder, from entre- (“inter”) + larder (“to lard”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt??l??d/

Verb

interlard (third-person singular simple present interlards, present participle interlarding, simple past and past participle interlarded)

1. Bloat or embellish (something) by including (often minor and extraneous) details at regular intervals.
   • 1887, Theodor Eimer, Specialization in Science

     The German student appears only too often to think that he must present his subject in the most difficult phraseology, excessively interlarded with strange words, as if he purposely would permit a glance into the treasures of his science and his knowledge only to an extremely narrow circle.

Synonyms

• interweave

References