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interim.noun,.plural.interims
an intervening time; interval
interval.noun,.plural.intervals
a space of time between events or states or between
two objects, points or units; intermission as between acts of a plays;
the amount of time between two specified instants, event or states; a space
between objects, units, points or states
Mathematics:.a
set of numbers consisting of all the numbers between a pair of given numbers
and including the endpoints; also called closed interval
Mathematics:.a
set of numbers consisting of all the numbers between a pair of given numbers
but not including the endpoints; also called open interval
Mathematics:.a
line segment representing all the numbers between a pair of given numbers
and including one, both or neither of the endpoints
Music:.in
music,
the difference in pitch between two
tones
intervallic.adjective
illiterate.adjective
having
little or no education; especially,
unable
to read or write; showing or marked
by a lack
of familiarity
with language and literature; violating
approved patterns of speaking or writing; showing or marked by a lack of
acquaintance
with the fundamentals
of a particular.field
of knowledge; ignorant
illiteracy.noun,.plural.illiteracies
the condition
of being unable to read and write
illiterately.adverb
illiterate.noun,.plural.illiterates
illiterateness.noun,.plural.illiteratenesses
impertinent.adjective
not pertinent;
irrelevant;
not restrained
within due
or proper bounds
especially of propriety
or good taste (impertinent curiosity,
such
as what young kids from bad
ass parents often are like, example:.2Kings
2:23); implies
exceeding the bounds of propriety in showing interest or curiosity or in
offering advice (resented
their impertinent interference)
impertinence.noun,.plural.impertinences
the quality
or condition of being
impertinent; insolence;
irrelevance; an impertinent act or statement
impertinently.adverb
synonyms.obtrusive;
officious;
meddlesome;
intrusive
implicit.adjective
being
without doubt
or reserve;
believing;
unquestioning;
capable
of comprehending
from something else, though
unexpressed; implied
(an implicit assumption);
involved in the nature
or essence
of something though not revealed, expressed or developed; potential;
explicit
implicitness.noun,.plural.implicitnessews
implicitly.adverb
implicitly.adjective
being without doubt or reserve; unquestioning
inadvertent.adjective
not focusing
the mind on a matter; inattentive;
unintentional;
careless
inadvertently.adverb
inadvertence.noun,.plural.inadvertences
inadvertency.noun,.plural.inadvertencies
infer,
inferred,
inferring,
infers.transitive
verbs
to draw
as a conclusion from something
assumed
or known; imply; to conclude
from evidence
or premises;
conjecture;
to reason from circumstance; surmise;
to lead to as a consequence
or conclusion (Socrates argued that a statue inferred the existence of
a sculptor); to hint
intransitive
verb use.to draw inferences; conjecture
inferably.adverb
inferable.adjective
inferrer.noun,.plural.inferrers
inference.noun,.plural.inferences
logical
conclusion or deduction
inferential.adjective
of, relating to or involving inference; derived
or capable of being derived by inference (because of how she dressed we
thought she was probably wealthy)
inferentially.adverb
indelible.adjective
impossible to remove, erase or wash away; permanent
(indelible ink)
indelibility.noun,.plural.indelibilities
indelibleness.noun,.plural.indeliblenesses
indelibly.adverb
ingrained.adjective.also
spelt.engrain
to dye with (worked the dye into the grain or
fiber); forming a part of the essence
or inmost being (she has an ingrained attitude
of kindness); firmly.established;
deep seated (ingrained compassion);
worked deeply into the texture
or fiber (a carpet needing cleaning
because of ingrained dirt)
ingrain, ingrains,
ingrained,
ingraining.transitive
verbs
to work indelibly into
the natural texture or mental or moral.constitution
ingrainedly.adverb
synonym.infuse
irrepressible.adjective
difficult or impossible to control or restrain
(irrepressible laughter)
irrepressibility.or.irrepressibleness.noun
irrepressibly.adverb
imagine, imagined,
imagining,
imagines.transitive
verb
to form a mental picture or image of; to think;
conjecture.(I
imagine you're right); to have
a notion of or about without adequate
foundation; fancy.(she
imagines herself to be a true artist)
intransitive verb use.to
employ the imagination; to make a guess; conjecture
imaginer.noun,.plural.imaginers
imaginative.adjective
having
a lively imagination, especially a creative imagination; created by, indicative
of or characterized
by imagination or creativity; tending
to indulge
in the fanciful
or in make-believe
imaginatively.adverb
imaginativeness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
imaginary.adjective
having existence only in the imagination
imaginarily.adverb
imaginariness.noun,.plural.imaginarinesses
imaginary.noun,.plural.imaginaries
Mathematics:.of,
relating.to.or.being
the coefficient of the imaginary
unit in a complex number;
of, relating to, involving or being an imaginary number; involving only
a complex number of which the real
part is zero
imagination.noun,.plural.imaginations
the formation
of a mental image, a short movie made up in your mind; imagination involves
having a mental picture of something that at the moment, is neither perceived
as real nor present to the senses, but it can beome reality through envisioning;
imagination
is
thought
created in mind, which produces an image, a picture; the mental
image so formed; the ability or tendency
to form such images; the ability to confront and deal with reality
by using the creative power of the mind; try it now by seeing yourself
at a safe place higher up and looking over the ocean where you can see
the waves splashing as they come to the shore and hear their noise, that's
forming thought or we can say, a thought form or movie of, that you can
carry with you throughout the day to bring it to mind once more, where
bringing it to mind is thinking and where
did the memory of this go where you could later in the day retrieve
it from; imagination also is resourcefulness (handled the problems with
great imagination); your imagination is the ability that you have to form
pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting or things
that you have not experienced; imagination is the part of your mind which
allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily
exist in real life yet (Tesla
completed his many inventions in his mind, working mentally on them until
they were perfect, then he began to construct them physically; long before
I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination); if you say that
someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought
they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the
first time; if you say that something stretches your imagination, you mean
that it is good because it makes you think about things that you had not
thought about before (BBC's films are exciting and stretch the imagination
and gene
Decode's information will take you to where you've never thought)
imaginational.adjective
imagery.noun,.plural.imageries
a set of mental
pictures or images; the use of expressive
or evocative
images in art,
literature
or music; the use of vivid
or figurative
language to represent.objects,
actions
or ideas;
a group
or body of related
images, as in a painting or poem;
the art of making such images
image.noun,.plural.images
a picture
formed in the mind by imagining; a reproduction
of the form of an individual or an object, especially an opinion or concept
of something that is formed and/or held in the mind; one's character projected
to the public (the image one gives off:.2Corinthians
4:4); sculptured likeness; one that closely or exactly resembles another;
a double (he is the image of his uncle)
imageless.adjective
imaging.noun,.plural.imagings
the process
of creating a mental
picture (she has
a mental image of what kind of person she would like in her life); medically
speaking, imaging has to do with visualization
of internal bodily organs, tissues or cavities using specialized instruments
and techniques, such as using an ultrasound device
for diagnostic
purposes; in psychology,
the use of mental images to influence bodily
processes, such as to control pain (mind over matter works best when more
than one works with you, such as here)
impatient.adjective
unable to wait patiently
or tolerate delay; restless; unable
to endure.irritation
or opposition; intolerant (impatient
of criticism); expressing or
produced by impatience (an impatient scowl);
restively.eager
or desirous; anxious
(impatient to begin)
impatiently.adverb
impatience.noun
the quality
or condition
of being impatient
indolent.adjective
disinclined
to exert oneself; averse
to activity, effort or movement mentally, emotionally and physically (in
times of social stress, many prefer not helping alleviate
it but remain indolent, thus allowing
those causing such stress to carry on, such as those destroying people
using the Nazi party to do it and similarly was the Khmer Rouge under the
tyrant Pol Pot:.Luke
13:1-5); habitually
lazy to the point of uninvolvement;
conducive
to inactivity or laziness;
lethargic.(humid,
indolent
weather makes one feel like just lazing around); slow to develop; having
or showing a disposition
to avoid.exertion;
slothful
indolently.adverb
indolence.noun
habitual
laziness; sloth
infantile.adjective
of or relating to infants or infancy; displaying
or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish
invert, inverted,
inverting,
inverts.verbs
transitive verb use.to
turn inside out or upside down (invert an hourglass); to reverse the position
order or condition of (invert the subject and predicate
of a sentence); to subject to inversion; reverse
intransitive verb use.to
be subjected to inversion
invert.noun
something inverted
invertible.adjective
inverse.adjective
reversal; inverted; directly opposite
inversely.adverb
inversion.noun
the act of inverting;
the state of being inverted; an interchange
of position of adjacent objects
in a sequence.(a
change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its
subject)
Meteorology:.an
atmospheric condition in which the air temperature rises with increasing
altitude, holding surface air down and preventing dispersion
of pollutants
Genetics:.a
chromosomal defect in which a segment of the chromosome breaks off and
reattaches in the reverse direction
Chemistry:.conversion
of a substance in which the direction of optical rotation is reversed,
from the dextrorotatory (clockwise) to the levorotatory (counterclockwise)
or from the levorotatory to the dextrorotatory form
igneous.adjective
of,
relating
to or characteristic
of fire; formed by solidification from a molten state, used of rocks; of
or relating to rock so formed; pyrogenic
irresponsible.adjective
marked
by; unreliable or untrustworthy
irresponsible.noun
one who has
no sense of responsibility
irresponsibility.or.irresponsibleness.noun
irresponsibly.adverb
irresponsive.adjective
not responsive;
not responding or answering
readily
irresponsively.adverb
irresponsiveness.noun
infrequent.adjective
not occurring.regularly;
occasional
or rare
(an infrequent guest); situated
or placed at rather wide intervals,
as in time or space (infrequent oases in the desert)
infrequently.adverb
infrequence.or.infrequency.noun
immediate.adjective
occurring.at
once; instant (gave me an immediate response); of
or near the present time (in the immediate future; Harry was the immediate
son of John his biological
father); of or relating to the present time and place; current;
close at hand; near (in the immediate vicinity);
next in line or relation (she is immediate successor to the president of
the company)
immediately.adverb
without delay;
forthwith;
directly (met with the parties immediately involved with the issue)
immediately.conjunction
as soon as; directly (they phoned immediately
they reached home)
immediateness.noun
immediacy.noun,.plural.immediacies
the condition
or quality
of being immediate; directness (the immediacy of live television coverage);
something
immediate, as in importance
inhalation.noun
the act or an instance of inhaling; an inhalant
inhale, inhaled,
inhaling,
inhales.verbs
transitive verb use.to
draw air or smoke, for example into the lungs by breathing; inspire;
compare exhale
intransitive verb use.to
breathe in; inspire; to draw smoke into the lungs; puff
inhaler.noun,.plural.inhalers
one that inhales (an avid
inhaler of aromatic pipe smoke); a device that produces a vapor to ease
breathing or is used to medicate by inhalation, especially a small nasal
applicator containing a medicament; also called inhalator
inhalant.adjective
used in or for inhaling
inhalant.noun,.plural.inhalants
something inhaled; a medication, an anesthetic
or another compound
in vapor or aerosol form, taken by inhalation
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