"intertwingle" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: intertwingles [present, singular, third-person], intertwingling [participle, present], intertwingled [participle, past], intertwingled [past]
Etymology: Blend of intertwine + intermingle This word has been coined independently multiple times. * Apparently used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda * Used as a noun by Henry James as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters. * Used as a noun by John Singer Sargent as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of the Ormond sisters (his nieces); either relating to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models, or their convoluted poses. (Jane Emmet de Glehn, one of Henry James' "intertwingles", was also a friend and model of Sargent's.) * Introduced in urban planning by Tracy Augur in the 1950s, and adopted by others including Dennis O'Harrow The more specific computing sense was introduced by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|intertwine|intermingle}} Blend of intertwine + intermingle Head templates: {{en-verb}} intertwingle (third-person singular simple present intertwingles, present participle intertwingling, simple past and past participle intertwingled)
  1. (intransitive, informal, rare) to entangle; to be confused, muddled, or enmeshed Tags: informal, intransitive, rare
    Sense id: en-intertwingle-en-verb-4L-NiU5e
  2. (intransitive, informal, computing, rare) To interconnect or interrelate in a deep and complex way. Tags: informal, intransitive, rare Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-intertwingle-en-verb-fmG-q3OS Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English blends: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: intertwingularity, disintertwingle

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