INTRICATE


Meaning of INTRICATE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

These lent brilliance to the footwork which became more intricate and thus more interesting.

Vertebrates have a much more intricate and sensitive morphology.

Bonds also have more intricate cash flow patterns than money market securities, which typically involve just a single payment at maturity.

There is another round wooden box on the shelf, though the wood is darker and the design more intricate .

Yet the field of inter-relationships is much larger and more intricate .

most

As are our skills at arranging the most intricate forms of financing.

I had so much hair and it was so heavy and pliable that I wore it in the most intricate ways.

It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights.

In the most intricate examples, the fore-edge is fanned both ways and a double picture is secured.

The brain and the nervous system take the greatest strain of all and the most intricate functions are progressively damaged.

■ NOUN

network

On these rest great palaces, temples and storehouses forming an intricate network of canals.

A good defense lawyer has an intricate network .

The Everglades was carved into sections by an intricate network of canals and levees - 1,400 miles in all.

Miniature boats rigged with burlap sails ply intricate networks of rivers and canals.

pattern

Next, long white streamers tied into an intricate pattern in the centre were handed to various women standing in the circle.

At Motown, electric guitars, sometimes as many as four, were locked in intricate patterns .

These provide an intricate pattern of interconnected and convoluted water bodies which have considerable ecological interest and value.

They mechanically weave into intricate patterns , twirling their 10-pound rifles with the swiftness of a baton.

Enriching texture Many people mistake pattern for texture, yet intricate patterns are often found on smooth, tranquil surfaces.

One look at the intricate pattern was enough to tell her she could follow it with no trouble at all.

The skills that were needed to make intricate patterns by manipulating bobbins and pins at speed were learned at an early age.

They stayed much more closely together, weaving intricate patterns round each other.

system

The earnings of metal miners are notoriously difficult to estimate because intricate systems of payment by results produced wide fluctuations.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

intricate patterns of coloured marble

a pair of intricate beaded earrings

Lasers are used to cut intricate designs in wood.

the intricate workings of a watch

The farmers use an intricate system of drainage canals.

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