nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: insane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin īnsānus (“unsound in mind; mad, insane”), from in- + sānus (“sound, sane”), equivalent to in- + sane. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈseɪn/ 1. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. Example: What is the cause of insanity? Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that, but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins, and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling part of the story—the other half of the people who go insane apparently have nothing organically wrong with their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered microscopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as yours and mine. Why do these people go insane? Example: And you told me not to drive But I made it home alive So you said that only proves that I'm insane 2. Used by or relating to insane people. Example: an insane hospital Example: an insane asylum 3. Causing insanity or madness. Example: Were such things here, as we doe speake about? / Or haue we eaten on the insane Root, / That takes the Reason Prisoner? 4. Characterized by excess or the utmost folly; ridiculous; impractical. Labels: informal Example: an insane plan Example: an insane amount of money 5. Extremely good; incredibly amazing. Labels: slang Example: That guy is insane at FPS games. Example: Cederstrand was all over the ice, whipping his sled around and firing pucks into the net. It's what Straschnitzki is aiming for. "He's insane. The turns, the shots. It's something I want to do some day." 6. Enraged; furious. Labels: informal
Word: insatiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Inherited from Middle English insaciable, from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis. By surface analysis, in- + satiable. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈseɪʃ(j)əbəl/, /ɪnˈseɪʃi.əbəl/ 1. Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy. Example: Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable Jew? Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest' Example: Guestling, who adds an insatiable jealousy to his other domestic virtues, vetoed the new acquaintance and thenceforward the two met hurriedly and furtively in town.
Word: insatiable Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English insaciable, from Middle French insatiable, from Old French insaciable, from Late Latin insatiabilis. By surface analysis, in- + satiable. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈseɪʃ(j)əbəl/, /ɪnˈseɪʃi.əbəl/ 1. One who or that which cannot be satiated.
Word: insemination Part of Speech: noun 1. A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.
Word: insight Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English insight, insiht (“insight, mental vision, intelligence, understanding”), equivalent to in- + sight. Perhaps continuing Old English insiht (“narrative, argument, account”), from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz (“account, narrative, argument”). Compare West Frisian ynsjoch (“insight”), Dutch inzicht (“insight, awareness, view, opinion”), German Low German Insicht (“insight”), German Einsicht (“insight, knowledge, perception, understanding”), Danish indsigt (“insight”), Swedish insikt (“insight”), Icelandic innsýn (“insight”). Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsaɪ̯t/, [ˈɪnsɐɪ̯t], /ˈɪnsɑe̯t/, /ˈənsaɪ̯t/, [ˈənsɑe̯t] 1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources. Example: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators. 2. Power of acute observation and deduction. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Corbett has an interesting insight into the reactions of his colleagues from diverse backgrounds: "The ex-British Rail people responded much better than those from the private sector. In terms of helping, the private sector people headed for the hills, while the railway people, like Chris Leah [the operations director] and Dick Fearn [the Midlands Zone director] moved towards the gunfire. The non-railway people on the whole didn't." 3. Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insinuation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French insinuation, from Old French, from Latin insinuatio, from īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˌsɪnjuˈeɪʃən/ 1. The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; — formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The art or power of gaining good will by a prepossessing manner. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Slander may be conveyed by insinuations.
Word: insouciant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French insouciant, from in- (“not”, prefix) + souciant (“worrying”), 1828. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsuːsɪənt/, /inˈsusiənt/ 1. Casually unconcerned; carefree, indifferent, nonchalant. Example: an insouciant gesture Example: "I am quite serious in saying that your loss must and would be felt; but I verily believe," added she, after a moment's hesitation, "that you are so insouciant yourself, that you cannot believe that every body else is not equally indifferent."
Word: inspire Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Latin īnspīrōbor. Old French espirer Old French enspirerbor. Middle English enspiren English inspire From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin īnspīrāre (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek πνέω (pnéō, “breathe”), from in + spīrō (“breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Displaced native Old English onbryrdan (literally “to prick in”). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/, /ɪnˈspaɪɹ/, /ɪnˈspɑeə(ɹ)/, [ɪnˈspɑeə(ɹ)] 1. To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. Labels: transitive Example: Dawning day new comfort hath inspired. Example: He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul. 2. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to. Labels: transitive Example: Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue. Example: The captain's speech was aimed to inspire her team to victory in the final. 3. To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale. Labels: ambitransitive Example: By means of those sulfurous coal smokes the lungs are as it were stifled and extremely oppressed, whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty. Example: Everything was elaborately padded, even the Myers apparatus which was to absorb carbonic acid and replace the oxygen inspired by its tenant 4. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. 5. To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Deſcend ye nine! deſcend and ſing; / The breathing inſtruments inſpire, / VVake into voice each ſilent ſtring, / And ſvveep the ſounding lyre! 6. To spread rumour indirectly. Labels: transitive
Word: installation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French installation, from Medieval Latin installātiō. By surface analysis, install + -ation. Compare with Piedmontese istallassion. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.stəˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɪn.stəˈlæɪʃən/, /ɪn.sʈɔː.leː.ʃən/ 1. An act of installing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The installation of the new software took only a few minutes. 2. Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A work of installation art. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The museum is displaying a modern art installation. Example: Represented by Olney Gleason gallery, she was the subject of a 2025 solo show at the MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan and recently unveiled a permanent installation at the Princeton University Art Museum. 4. A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A military installation was built near the border.
Word: instead Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From in + stead, from Middle English ine (“in”) + stede (“stead”). Related to German statt. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈstɛd/, /ɪnˈsted/, /ɪnˈstiːd/ 1. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative. Labels: not-comparable Example: I was going to go shopping, but I went dancing instead. Example: ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
Word: instigation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English instigacioun, from Old French instigacïon and Latin instīgātio. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnstɪˈɡeɪʃən/ 1. The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
Word: court Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Late Latin cōrs, contracted from Latin cohors. Doublet of cohort. Professional tennis players playing on a tennis court (noun sense 5) in New Delhi, India Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːt/, [ˈkʰɔːt], /ˈkɔɹt/, [ˈkʰɔɹt], /ˈko(ː)ɹt/ 1. To seek to achieve or win (a prize). Labels: transitive Example: He was courting big new accounts that previous salesmen had not attempted. Example: On the contrary, they employed the brief respite that was left them in fortifying one another's courage, and in bearing testimony to the truth in so earnest a manner that they might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom. 2. To risk (a consequence, usually negative). Labels: transitive Example: She courted controversy with her frank speeches. Example: It is not unknown for hot axleboxes to fail completely and for wagons to become derailed as a result. Surely it is courting disaster to allow a train to proceed for up to seven miles with a defective vehicle before it can be brought to a halt? 3. To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions. Labels: transitive Example: Near-synonyms: entice, allure; see also Thesaurus:allure 4. To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions. Labels: transitive Example: If either of you both love Katharina […] / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure. 5. To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions. Labels: transitive Example: The bird was courting a potential mate by performing an elaborate dance. Example: At this time of year, you can see many animals courting. 6. To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions. Labels: transitive 7. To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: She's had a few beaus come courting.
Word: innovation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French innovation, from Old French innovacion, from Late Latin innovatio, innovationem, from Latin innovo, innovatus. Morphologically innovate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation. […] He said there would be "considerable danger" that without such an exception, the granting of patent would "tie up" the use of such tools and future innovation based on them. Example: Innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility. 2. A change effected by innovating; a change in customs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The others, whose time had been more actively employed, began to shew symptoms of innovation,—"the good wine did its good office." The frost of etiquette, and pride of birth, began to give way before the genial blessings of this benign constellation, and the formal appellatives with which the three dignitaries had hitherto addressed each other, were now familiarly abbreviated into Tully, Bally, and Killie. 3. Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One of the remarkable innovations in concrete technology is the development of self-healing cementitious materials through the incorporation of bacterial agents. 4. A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insolation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French insolation, from Latin insolatio (“a setting or placing in the sun”). Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsoʊˈleɪʃən/ 1. The incident radiant energy emitted by the sun which reaches a unit area over a period of time, typically measured over a horizontal area at the Earth's surface or at the top of Earth's atmosphere. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The difference in insolation between north-facing and south-facing slopes can affect microclimates as much as hundreds of miles of north-south distance on level ground. 2. The rate of delivery of such radiation. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. The act or process of exposing to the rays of the sun, such as for the purpose of medical treatment, drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar. Labels: uncountable, usually 4. sunstroke. Labels: dated, uncountable, usually
Word: instillation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French instillation, from Latin instillatio. 1. The act of instilling. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. That which is instilled. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: instrumentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English instrument Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English instrumentation From instrument + -ation. 1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Science should be distinguished from technique and its scientific instrumentation, technology. Science is practised by scientists, and techniques by ‘engineers’ — a term that in our terminology includes physicians, lawyers, and teachers. If for the scientist knowledge and cognition are primary, it is action and construction that characterises the work of the engineer, though in fact his activity may be based on science. In history, technique often preceded science. 2. The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum). Example: "Turn It into Something Good” captures that late seventies/early eighties soul feel of which Earth, Wind & Fire were pioneers. The instrumentation on this song is so pure and polished that it has to be applauded for its production. 3. The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He had a wonderful instrumentation. 4. On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential functions. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The car's instrumentation included fuel, temperature, voltimeter and oil pressure gauges, along with a speedometer and tachometer. 5. Monitoring gauges for any machine, such as a reactor. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. The dynamic analysis of a program's performance and behaviour, usually by injecting profiling code into it. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: bytecode instrumentation Example: Xcode is Apple's toolkit for developers. It includes an IDE, a design tool (Interface Builder), a compiler, and the iOS emulator, as well as a set of tools for instrumentation and performance analysis. 7. The use of tools, instruments, or technical methods in the commission of a crime. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insubordination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + subordination, on the model of French insubordination. 1. The quality or state of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority; specifically, an employee's failure or refusal to comply with a request or an assignment given by his/her supervisor. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Green, who served as a technical manager in the network's Washington bureau, charged in her suit that she was subject to "repeated acts of insubordination by white male engineers and technicians, with the effect of the erosion and undermining of [her] ability to carry out her duties as supervisor."
Word: insubstantial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from Middle French insubstantiel, from Latin insubstantiālis, from in- + substantiālis. By surface analysis, in- + substantial. 1. Lacking substance; not real or strong. Example: The bridge was insubstantial and would not safely carry a car. Example: By manipulating the flow of magic, Eragon quickly descended from the Ra'zac's lair—which the insubstantial wall of stone once again hid—to the ledge.
Word: insulation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English insulate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English insulation From insulate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnsjʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌɪnsəˈleɪʃən/ 1. The act of insulating; detachment from other objects; isolation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages. 2. The state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Any of a variety of materials designed to reduce the flow of heat, either from or into a building. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The state of a body so separated. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insurmountable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English surmount Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English surmountable English insurmountable From in- + surmountable. 1. Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable Example: Getting everybody to agree proved to be an insurmountable difficulty. Example: Overcoming Japan’s demographic crisis has proved insurmountable for occupants of the Kantei – the prime minister’s office – long before Kishida moved in last autumn.
Word: intact Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French intact, from Latin intact(us). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtækt/ 1. Left complete or whole; not touched, defiled, sullied, or otherwise damaged. Example: I packed my belongings carefully so that they would survive the move intact. Example: But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it. 2. Virginal; having an intact hymen. Example: She hadn't been... molested? No, no, nothing like that. I have examined her. She is quite intact. 3. Uncircumcised; having an intact foreskin. Example: GM, 28, intact, atheist, 5'9", 140 lbs., seeks similar guy 20-30 for conversation and other forms of communication. 4. Not castrated. Example: an intact bull
Word: intake Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnteɪk/, /ˈɪntæɪk/ 1. The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The quantity taken in. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the intake of air Example: In 2010 almost 120,000 people died prematurely and 108 million life years were lost—because of inadequate vitamin A intake. 4. An act or instance of taking in. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: an intake of oxygen or food Example: The company wasn't allowed to make him 'forcibly participate in seminars and end-of-week drinks frequently ending up in excessive alcohol intake, encouraged by associates who made very large quantities of alcohol available', the court said. 5. A nostril, especially a large one. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable 6. The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the new intake of students 7. The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A tract of land enclosed. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in. Labels: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable 10. The part of language input that is actually processed by a learner. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]Due to internal and external processing restraints, only part of the input becomes intake, only part of the intake becomes acquired, and only part of the acquired intake can be used by the learner.
Word: intake Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From English dialectal (Northern England/Scotland), deverbal of take in, equivalent to in- + take. More at in-, take. Pronunciation: /ˈɪnteɪk/, /ˈɪntæɪk/ 1. To take in or draw in; to bring in from outside. Labels: transitive Example: Well, I "intook" the general situation west of the Mississippi because I did not get much of a chance to see things east of the Mississippi. Example: The particle concentration in the ascending hot current of the combustion product have^([sic]) been measured by intaking the current into the counter close to the sample plate in the furnace.
Word: integration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French intégration, from Latin integratio. Morphologically integrate + -ion. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɪn.təˈɡɹæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act or process of making whole or entire. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: One has, in fact, the old choice of regarding the higher integrations as queer offthrows of an infinitely improbable lower-order accident, or as the explanatory foundation of all that leads up to them. 2. The process of combining with compatible elements in order to incorporate them. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: integration into the city 4. The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 5. The operation of finding the integral of a function. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life. 6. In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. The development of a system that brings together several subsystems so that they communicate and work together. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our AcmePay integration allows the accounting ledger to receive details of customer payments automatically.
Word: intellectual Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃwəl/, /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃəl/ 1. Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive. Example: intellectual powers, activities, etc. Example: 1920, Harold Monro, Preface to The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry Pleasure is various, but it cannot exist where the emotions or the imagination have not been powerfully stirred. Whether it be called sensual or intellectual, pleasure cannot be willed 2. Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness Example: an intellectual person Example: The Fenimore Cooper Indian is no doubt a brave and highly intellectual person, educated abroad, refined and cultivated by foreign travel, graceful in the grub dance or scalp walk-around, yet tender-hearted as a girl, walking by night fifty-seven miles in a single evening to warn his white friends of danger. 3. Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect Example: intellectual employments Example: A good deal of nonsense is written about sport and entertainment. Many of us can, with pleasant ease, suspend a severely intellectual task for a few hours to witness a first-class football match. 4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind. Example: intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy 5. Spiritual. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life […]
Word: intellectual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃwəl/, /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃəl/ 1. An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters. Example: It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order. Example: ‘You know I hate intellectuals.’ ‘You mean you hate people who are cleverer than you are.’ ‘Yes. I suppose that’s why I like you so much, Tom.’ 2. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Labels: archaic Example: […] although their intellectuals had not failed in the theory of truth, yet did the inservient and brutall faculties control the suggestion of reason […]
Word: intermediation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English intermediate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English intermediation From intermediate (verb) + -ion. 1. An act of coming between; an intervention. Labels: countable, usually 2. Intervention; interposition. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: intermixture Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English mixture English intermixture From inter- + mixture. 1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. 2. Admixture; also, an additional ingredient. Example: The cheeſe, or caſeous part of milk, is formed into a maſs, and ſeparated from the other parts of the liquid, by the action of fire, by the acid fermentation of vvhich milk is liable, and by the intermixture of acids. This matter, vvhen vvell vvaſhed, is vvhite and ſolid, like the albumen of the blood.
Word: intervene Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Back-formation from intervention, and/or from Latin interveniō (“come between”, verb). Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəˈviːn/, /ˌɪntɚˈvin/, /ˌəntəˈviːn/ 1. To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. Labels: intransitive Example: The police had to be called to intervene in the fight. Example: Nature film-makers are discouraged from intervening in the events they are attempting to capture on film. 2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events. Labels: intransitive Example: An instant intervened between the flash and the report. Example: […] it is plain, that shaking off a Power, which Force, and not Right, hath set over any one, though it hath the Name of Rebellion; yet is no Offence before God, but that which he allows and countenances, though even Promises and Covenants, when obtain’d by force, have intervened. 3. To occur or act as an obstacle or delay. Labels: intransitive Example: Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking. Example: The weather intervened before the contest could get under way. 4. To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Young Scarfe stared, astounded. “You haven’t met before,” Mrs. Gould intervened. “Mr. Decoud—Mr. Scarfe.” Example: “That sounds suspiciously like bigotry to me,” intervened Maitland, sweetening his impertinence with a dimpled smile. 5. To come between, or to be between, persons or things. Labels: ambitransitive Example: The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. Example: 1668, Joseph Glanvill, Plus Ultra, or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle, London: James Collins, Chapter 11, p. 79, How defective the Art of Navigation was in elder Times, when they Sailed by the observation of the Stars, is easie to be imagin’d: For in dark weather, when their Pleiades, Helice, and Cynosura were hidden from them by the intervening Clouds, the Mariner was at a loss for his Guide, and exposed to the casual conduct of the Winds and Tides. 6. In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. Example: an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene
Word: introspection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin intrōspectiō, noun of action (with -iō) from past-participle (intrōspectus) stem of intrōspiciō (“to look into, look at, examine, observe attentively”), from intro- (“inward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look at”). By surface analysis, introspect + -ion. Pronunciation: /ɪntɹəˈspɛkʃən/ 1. A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: If Adam Wheeler gave it some thought, or if someone were to prompt him with the right questions, he could put words around the fact that his existence doesn't bring him any satisfaction. He would discover, on introspection, that he's nowhere close, actually, to "happy", and that there is something vast and significant missing from his life. But he doesn't give it any thought. There's a void between him and those questions. 2. Clipping of type introspection. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
Word: intend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English intenden, entenden (“direct (one’s) attention towards”), borrowed from Old French entendre, from Latin intendō, intendere. See also intensive. Doublet of entendre. Largely displaced native Old English myntan (“to mean, intend; to think, suppose”), whence dialectal mint. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛnd/ 1. To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon Labels: ambitransitive, usually Example: He intends to go to university. Example: They evidently intended some mischief. 2. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard. 3. To stretch to extend; distend. Labels: obsolete 4. To strain; make tense. 5. To intensify; strengthen. Labels: obsolete Example: Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […]. 6. To apply with energy. 7. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey. 8. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold. 9. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.
Word: intense Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɛns/ 1. Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering. Example: Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sing'd, and my feete unsufferably surbated. Example: […] Nature had a robe of glory on, / And the bright air o'er every shape did weave / Intenser hues, so that the herbless stone, / The leafless bough among the leaves alone, / Had being clearer than its own could be, […] 2. Of a thing: possessing some characteristic to an extreme or very high or strong degree. Example: [T]h' intense atom glows / A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose. Example: These pendent lamps and chandeliers are bright / As earthly fires from dull dross can be cleansed; / Yet could my eyes drink up intenser beams / Undazzled—this is darkness—when I close / These lids, i see far fiercer brilliances,— […] 3. Of feelings, thoughts, etc.: strongly focused; ardent, deep, earnest, passionate. Example: intense study Example: intense thought 4. Of a person: very emotional or passionate. Example: The artist was a small, intense man with piercing blue eyes. Example: Fair Æsthetic (suddenly, and in deepest tones, to Smith, who has just been introduced to take her in to Dinner). "Are you Intense?" 5. Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense. Labels: also, figuratively
Word: intensification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From intense + -ification. 1. The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: With the intensification of air raids on London last September, these tube platforms began to be used as an air raid shelter, and shelterers travelled by train (specially stopped there) from other stations in order to gain access. Example: [...] moreover, the layout fortunately allows for the likely intensification of the suburban service.
Word: interact Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English interact From inter- + act. Pronunciation: /ɪn.təˈɹækt/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈækt/ 1. To act upon each other. Labels: intransitive Example: The way staff interact with each other during breaks can play an important role in the workplace. 2. To act upon each other. Labels: intransitive Example: This medication can interact with alcohol, so it's best to avoid drinking while you're taking it. Example: The fortunes of the master and the servant, intimately interacting, rose together. The Baron’s secret skill had given Leopold his unexceptionable kingdom; and Leopold, in his turn, as time went on, was able to furnish the Baron with more and more keys to more and more back doors.
Word: interact Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act English interact From inter- + act. Pronunciation: /ɪn.təˈɹækt/, /ˌɪn.tɚˈækt/ 1. A short act or piece between others, as in a play; a break between acts. Labels: dated Example: 1912, William Archer, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109, […] the flight of time is best indicated by an interact. When the curtain is down, the action on the stage remains, as it were, in suspense. The audience lets its attention revert to the affairs of real life; and it is quite willing, when the mimic world is once more revealed, to suppose that any reasonable space of time has elapsed […] Example: The play gives detailed descriptions of the instruments used in the interact music […] 2. Intermediate employment or time. Labels: obsolete Example: 1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters Written […] to His Son, London: P. Dodsley, 10th edition, 1792, Volume 2, Letter 219, p. 344, Play, in good company, is only play, and not gaming; not deep, and consequently not dangerous nor dishonourable. It is only the inter-acts of other amusements. 3. A pair or series of acts involving more than one person. Example: Inasmuch as it is impossible to analyze the contents of an entire interpersonal relationship, it is helpful to conceptualize a given communication event as consisting of a series of subevents. Any one subevent may be pulled out as a basic unit for analysis in the study of interpersonal communication; this basic unit may then be called an interact. […] each interact is a distinctive attempt to conceal, repeat, or disclose information and/or to influence the relationship. Example: As they listened to groups communicate, Fisher and his coworkers noted what each group member said (labeled a speech act) and how the next person responded. This pairing of speech acts is called an interact.
Word: internment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English intern Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English internment From intern + -ment. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɝnmənt/, /ɪnˈtɜːnmənt/ 1. The state of being imprisoned, usually without trial. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Policies that favor criminalization and internment are promoted over support for social transformation and equity. Example: Nevertheless, the economic and emotional effects of the internment were severe, and the United States Government has yet to make good on its promises of reparations.
Word: interpellation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French interpellation, from Latin interpellātiō; equivalent to interpellate + -ion or interpel + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɚpɛˈleɪʃən/, /ɪnˌtɚ-/, /-pə-/ 1. The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned about and explain an act, a policy or a point raised during a debate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: While the petition was circulating, a Progressive deputy asked the Minister of the Interior what the Prussian government intended to do about it. The interpellation was intended to elicit a condemnation, but the minister’s pro forma reply that the government did not intend to abrogate Jewish rights was seen by the petitioners as an encouraging sign. 2. The act of interpellating: the act of identification. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of interpelling: interruption. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interpenetration Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English penetration English interpenetration From inter- + penetration. 1. The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The situation of two or more bodies overlapping in three-dimensional space, with part of the bodies lying within each other. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interposition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English interposicion, from Old French interposicion, from Latin interpositio. 1. The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] a Scuffle immediately ensued, which might have produced Mischief, had it not been prevented by the Interposition of Thwackum and the Physician […] Example: “True, true,” cried Mr. Knightley, with most ready interposition—“very true […]” 2. The thing interposed. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: interpretation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English interpretacioun, from the Anglo-Norman form of Old French interpretacion, from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”). Morphologically interpret + -ation. Pronunciation: /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, /ɪnˌtɝpɹəˈteɪʃən/, /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈtæɪʃən/ 1. An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version. Labels: countable Example: The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma Example: The interpretation of the rules 2. A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning. Labels: countable Example: Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture. Example: Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations. 3. The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language). Labels: uncountable Example: I believe that interpretation, particularly consecutive interpretation, is an art. I also believe, however, that the skill of consecutive interpretation can be taught, but only up to a point. Example: Interpretation studies is a young discipline, much younger than translation studies, and it cannot claim a long tradition and history of reflexions ^([sic]) and studies. 4. The power of explaining. Labels: uncountable 5. An artist's way of expressing thought or embodying a conception of nature through art. Labels: countable 6. An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases. Labels: countable 7. An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language. Labels: countable 8. An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus. Labels: countable 9. Short for heritage interpretation Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: intercommunication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English communication English intercommunication From inter- + communication. Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəkəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. Mutual communication. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even in beasts, that have no voice at all, by the reciprocall kindnesse, which we see in them, we easily inferre there is some other meane of entercommunication: their jestures treat, and their motions discourse. Example: Starting in their different musical worlds, they attempted endless ways of achieving a partnership, at last finding some kind of "intercommunication".
Word: interrelation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English relation English interrelation From inter- + relation. Pronunciation: /ˌɪn.tɚ.ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɪn.tɚ.ɹəˈleɪ.ʃən/ 1. Mutual or reciprocal relation. Labels: countable, uncountable