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INTERVENING

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or falling between events or points in time

Example:

so much had happened during the intervening years

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

middle (between an earlier and a later period of time)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb intervene

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 Context examples: 

Not as a direct effect or consequence; having intervening factors or persons or influences.

(Indirect, NCI Thesaurus)

The intervening bay was a dull sheen of molten metal, whereon sailing craft lay motionless or drifted with the lazy tide.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He left the chair, just as he sat in it, squarely, springing from the sitting posture like a wild animal, a tiger, and like a tiger covered the intervening space.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To remind; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody—Adele excepted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I took up my place behind a yew-tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Abnormal, tangled collections of dilated blood vessels that result from congenitally malformed vascular structures in which arterial afferents flow directly into venous efferents without the usual resistance of an intervening capillary bed.

(Arteriovenous Malformation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any process of gene rearrangement in which one immunoglobulin heavy chain constant coding region is exchanged for another, with the loss of the intervening region, resulting in an altered profile of effector molecule interactions for the antibody produced.

(Immunoglobulin Class Switch Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)

With the exception of the huge bulks of the skin-lodges, little could be seen save the flames of the fire, broken by the movements of intervening bodies, and the smoke rising slowly on the quiet air.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The conserved domain structure has been described as side-by-side anti-parallel alpha helices connected by intervening beta hairpin motifs or as beta, alpha, alpha, beta secondary structures or as an L-shaped beta-hairpin and two alpha-helices.

(Ankyrin Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)