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Lesson 2: Interpreting words in contextInterwoven | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “interwoven”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- [David] I've got a
twisted tale to tell you in this video, Wordsmiths,
because the word I want to talk about is interwoven, interwoven. It's an adjective and it means
twisted or joined together and it has a literal meaning
like two fibers woven into the same carpet, but it
also has a figurative one, like the strands of two
families joining together when their children get married. Let's talk about the word parts here. We've got inter, which
means between or among, and interaction, right? Is action between two or more things, and intercom is a device that allows you to communicate within
a building or similar, and woven is the past
tense form of to weave. Weaving is when you make
fabric out of threads by inter, huh, inter, interlacing them
on a machine called the loom. I was just in a fabric workshop,
here's a picture I took of a loom from the other day. The threads are under tension
and you plate them together and if you do that enough times,
you have a piece of fabric. A weave in the noun
form is a hair extension or it can be the pattern that
you make by weaving something. Let's weave these word
parts into other words. Leaving weave aside for
now, what are some words that you can think of
that use the prefix inter? I'll put on some music, meet
me back here in 10 seconds. All right, let's do it.
(upbeat music) Here are three that I came up with. Interrelated, an adjective that
means two things are related to one another, right? There's a connection between them. An intersection, a crossroads
where two roads cut into each other, that's what sect means, it's from secare, to cut, so intersection. Intercept, which is a verb that means to catch something on its
way to somewhere else. You can intercept a ball
and snatch it out of the air while it's passing between two places or a spy can intercept a secret message. Oh no, that spy has made a way with that top secret communique. Oh no, he's disappeared. Let's use interwoven in a few sentences. Here's a literal use. In this pattern, blue
threads are interwoven with pink, right? If you do this enough times, you can sort of see
where plaid comes from. The strands are literally woven together, but here's a figurative use of the word. The food traditions of Italy
and India are interwoven in my dad's signature dish, pizza curry. In this case, it's traditions that have been twisted together rather than literal strands of thread. Curry pizza is a real thing, by the way, if you've never had it
and it's incredible. Dip a piece of cheese
pizza into saag paneer and thank me later. Listen, Wordsmiths, I'm just here to help in matters food related and
in matters word related, and you're just here because
you can learn anything. David, out.