Positioning Arrangement Overlap Terminology

Imbricate

1. (of scales, plates, etc.) having adjacent edges overlapping.
2. overlap or cause to overlap.
3. Tiling but with a fixed overlapping component, making a covering instead of a partition
4. Sequenced overlapping like shingles, scales, plates, leaves

Intercalate

1. to insert or position between or among existing elements or layers.
2. To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.

Inlay

1. to set into a surface or ground material

Inset

1.  to insert within something else in such a way as to be visible
2. a small graphic represe ntation (such as a map or picture) set within a larger one

Wedge

1. to fit (people or things) into a tight space

Intertwine

1. to twist together into a usually confused mass
2. to cause to twine about one another Interweave, Weave

Weave

1. to cause to twine about one another Intertwine, Interweave

Interweave

1. to scatter or set here and there among other things Intersperse
2. to cause to twine about one another Intertwine

Intersperse

1. to put among or between others
2. to scatter or set here and there among other things Intertwine