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INTRICATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
Example:
intricate lacework
Classified under:
Similar:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb intricate
Context examples:
The key, Goulbourne said, is that the model connects geometry to mechanics in an intricate way, paving the way for a new branch of mechanics.
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A dense intricate feltwork of interwoven fine glial processes, fibrils, synaptic terminals, axons, and dendrites interspersed among the nerve cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.
(Neuropil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Making more complex or intricate.
(Complicating, NCI Thesaurus)
The moment that Hilton Cubitt’s broad back had disappeared through the door my comrade rushed to the table, laid out all the slips of paper containing dancing men in front of him, and threw himself into an intricate and elaborate calculation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Gentlemen, said Mr. Micawber, when the shadow of that iron-work on the summit of the brick structure has been reflected on the gravel of the Parade, I have seen my children thread the mazes of the intricate pattern, avoiding the dark marks.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The plans, which are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the working of the whole, are kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglar-proof doors and windows.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Inside the tomb, archaeologists wearing white masks and latex gloves inspected the sarcophagi, which were covered with intricate drawings in red, blue, black, green, and yellow - and featured the carved faces of the dead.
(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It is safe to say that there was no public case of any difficulty in which he was not consulted during those eight years, and there were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the most intricate and extraordinary character, in which he played a prominent part.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
