intertwingle
/ˌɪntəɹˈtwɪŋɡ(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way.
Informal; Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Now, having descarded,^([sic – meaning discarded]) by virtue of the spirit of the lord of universe, the possessions resembling the city of the Gandharvas created by the illusive energy of God which naturally get intertwingled with (one's) soul; go I to seek the protection of Him."
- "Athletic benefit. Esmeralda a great success. [Montgomery Gordon] Rice gets the ring ceremony "intertwingled.""
- "A writer in the Kansas City "Star" has discovered that there is a "Kansas language." […] To the Kansas list we beg to add a New Jersey word, "intertwingle"—as roots do in the soil."
- "The Little Fire Engine. Even if Graham Greene had not come out from the anonymity of The Little Red Engine and signed it, this is surely the Book of the Year. Pathos and humour ‘inextricably intertwingled’. Charlie Chaplin would not have disowned it, and a much younger [Walt] Disney at his best would have envied it."
- "This is largely an accident of history, but it is also a natural concomitant of the need for coupling urban technological analysis and problem explorations with designed and concrete solutions to social, political, economic, and physical problems of urban areas expressed in physical terms as plans. The fact that all of these elements are, as Tracy Augur says, "inextricably intertwingled" makes for the complex job of the "generalist in planning," in contradistinction to the specialist, let us say, in school architecture, or hospital architecture, or residential architecture."
- "Fortunately, these objectives are not only compatible, but are, to use a popular Washington phrase, "inextricably intertwingled.""
Etymology
PIE word *h₁én Probably a blend of intertwine + intermingle. The word has apparently been coined independently several times: * It was used by the Indian author and translator Manmatha Nath Dutt (1855–1912) in an 1896 work: see the quotation. * It appears to have been used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda: see the quotation. * It was used as a noun by the American-British author Henry James (1843–1916) as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters; and also by the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of his nieces, the Ormond sisters. Sargent was referring to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models or their convoluted poses. (The American artist Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), one of Henry James’ “intertwingles”, was also a friend and model of Sargent’s.) * The word was used in the urban planning context by Tracy Augur in the 1950s (see the 1954 quotation), and adopted by others including Dennis O’Harrow. Sense 2 (“of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way”) was developed from its use in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) by the American philosopher and sociologist Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937): see the quotation.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪntəɹˈtwɪŋɡ(ə)l/
- British English: /ˌɪntəˈtwɪŋɡl̩/