Associations to the word «Intercalate»

Wiktionary

INTERCALATE, verb. To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
INTERCALATE, verb. To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.
INTERCALATE, verb. (molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.

Dictionary definition

INTERCALATE, verb. Insert (days) in a calendar.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin