interlineal


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in•ter•lin•e•ar

(ˌɪn tərˈlɪn i ər)

adj.
1. situated or inserted between lines, as of the lines of print in a book: an interlinear translation.
2. having the same text in different languages set in alternate lines: an interlinear Bible.
[1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin]
in`ter•lin′e•ar•ly, adv.
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Adj. 1. interlineal - written between lines of text
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Webster appears to have found the influence intriguing but also hard to manage, since the dramatic writing that followed "By the Looking-Glass" was nearly all done under the license of not stanzaic but blank verse: a medium affording more occasion, within the individual line or by way of interlineal enjambment, for marked disturbance and recovery of the pentameter norm.
Fretted lines: di-versification in Augusta Webster's dramatic monologues
Tiene muy claro que la traduccion interlineal es solo util como aprendizaje de las lenguas y que estos usos descalifican y desprestigian la profesion.
Francisco Lafarga, Carole Filliere, Maria Jesus Garcia Garrosa y Juan Jesus Zaro, Pensar la traduccion en la Espana del siglo XIX
This is a metaphor that Benjamin sees actualized in interlineal translations of the Bible, and something Borges makes real via the narrator's temporally out-of-step asides which, in parentheses, also appear between lines.
Translation in the time of repetition: Borges's "La busca de Averroes"

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