intercalate
(verb) insert (days) in a calendar
Source: WordNet® 3.1
intercalate (third-person singular simple present intercalates, present participle intercalating, simple past and past participle intercalated)
To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.
(molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.)
Source: Wiktionary
In*ter"ca*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intercalated; p. pr. & vb. n. Intercalating.] Etym: [L. intercalatus, p. p. of intercalare to intercalate to intercalate; inter between + calare to call, proclaim. See Calendar.]
1. (Chron.)
Definition: To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.
2. To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 March 2025
(adjective) moved or operated or effected by liquid (water or oil); “hydraulic erosion”; “hydraulic brakes”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
