Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 10

Immature (a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.

Immature (a.) Characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior" [ant: {mature}].

Immature (a.) (Used of living things especially persons) In an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: {young}, {immature}] [ant: {old}].

Immature (a.) Not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: {green}, {unripe}, {unripened}, {immature}] [ant: {mature}, {ripe}].

Immature (a.) Not yet mature [ant: {mature}].

Immature (a.) (Of birds) Not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill" [syn: {unfledged}, {immature}] [ant: {fledged}, {mature}].

Immatured (a.) Immature.

Immaturely (adv.) In an immature manner. -- Warburion.

Immaturely (adv.) In an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely" [syn: immaturely, jejunely] [ant: maturely].

Compare: Jejunely

Jejunely (adv.) 缺乏營養地;枯燥地;幼稚地 See  Jejune.

Jejue (a.) 枯燥無味的;缺少營養的;幼稚的 Naive, simplistic, and superficial.

Their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions.

Jejue (a.) (Of ideas or writings) Dry and uninteresting.

The poem seems to me rather jejune.

Immatureness (n.) The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

Immaturity (n.) 未成熟;未成年 The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

Immeability (n.) Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness.

Immeasurability (n.) 不可測量;廣大無邊 The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability.

Immeasurable (a.) 不可計量的;無邊無際的;廣大的 Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.

Immeasurableness (n.) The state or quality of being immeasurable.

Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. -- F. W. Robertson.

Immeasurably (adv.) 不可測量地;廣大無邊地 In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." -- Wordsworth.

Immeasurably (adv.) To an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement; "the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man" [ant: measurably].

Immeasurably (adv.) Without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy" [syn: boundlessly, immeasurably, infinitely].

Immeasured (a.) Immeasurable.

Immechanical (a.) Not mechanical.

Immediacy (n.) 直接;立刻;目前;密接 The relation of freedom from the intervention of a medium; immediateness.

Immediate (a.) 直接的,最接近的;緊靠著的;立即的;直覺的 Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.

Immediate (a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.

Immediate (a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.

Immediate (a.) (B2) 立即的,立刻的 Happening or done without delay or very soon after something else.

// We must make an immediate response.

// Dioxin is a poison that takes immediate effect.

Immediate (a.) (C1) 接近的;緊接的;直接的 Used to refer to something or someone that is close to, or is a cause of or an effect of, something or someone else.

// There are few facilities in the immediate area.

// An immediate result/effect of the war was a breakdown of law and order.

Immediate (a.) (B2) 目前的;盡快的 In the present or as soon as possible.

// We have no immediate plans.

// The public has demanded his immediate resignation.

The immediate future 近期 The period of time that is coming next.

Your immediate family 直系親屬(如父母、子女、配偶等) Your closest relations, such as your parents, children, husband, or wife.

Immediately (adv.) 立刻,剛,立即 In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.

Immediately (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.

Immediately (adv.) As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note.

Immediately (adv.) (A2) 立即,馬上 Now or without waiting or thinking.

// We really ought to leave immediately.

// The purpose of the meeting wasn't immediately obvious.

Immediately (adv.) (C1) (距離或時間上)接近,緊接 Close to something or someone in distance or time.

// Milton Street is on the left, immediately after the bank.

// They moved in immediately before Christmas.

// We heard a loud crash from the room immediately above us.

Immediately (adv.) 緊接地;直接地 Closely or directly.

// The people most immediately affected by the drought are the farmers themselves.

Immediately (conj.) 一…就 As soon as.

// Immediately she'd gone, the boys started to mess about.

I'll call you immediately I hear anything.

Immediateness (n.) [U] 即時(性);直接(性) The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

Immediatism (n.) Immediateness.

Immedicable (a.) 醫不好的,不治的,不能矯正的  Not to be healed; incurable.

Immelodious (a.) 不悅耳的;(旋律)不和諧的 Not melodious.

Immemorable (a.) Not memorable; not worth remembering.

Immemorial (a.) (因年代久遠而)無法追憶的;古老的;遠古的 Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.

Immemorially (adv.) Beyond memory.

Immense (a.) . 巨大的;廣大的;無邊無際的;無限的;【口】非常好的,極妙的 Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

Immensely (adv.) 極大地;廣大地;無限地;【口】非常,很 In immense manner or degree.

Immenseness (n.) 無限; 巨量; 極妙 The state of being immense.

Immensible (a.) 不可計量的;無邊無際的;廣大的 Immeasurable.

Immensities (n. pl. ) of Immensity.

Immensity (n.) 無限;廣大;巨大 The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.

Immensive (a.) 龐大的;巨大的;非常的 Huge.

Immensurability (n.) The quality of being immensurable.

Immensurable (a.) 不可計量的;無邊無際的;廣大的 Immeasurable.

Immensurate (a.) Unmeasured; unlimited.

Immerged (imp. & p. p.) of Immerge.

Immerging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immerge.

Immerge (v. t.) 浸入,浸沒;隱沒 To plungel into, under, or within anything especially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse.

Immerge (v. i.) To dissapear by entering into any medium, as a star into the light of the sun.

Immerit (n.) 缺點;過失;罪過 Lack of worth; demerit. [R.] -- Suckling.

Immerited (a.) Unmerited.

Immeritous (a.) Undeserving.

Immersable (a.) 可浸入的 See Immersible.

Immerse (a.) Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

Immersed (imp. & p. p.) of Immerse.

Immersing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immerse.

Immerse (v. t.) 使浸沒 [+in];【宗】給……施浸禮 To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.

Immerse (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Immerse (v. t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

Immerse (v.) Immerse yourself in sth: . 使埋首於;使深陷於(+inTo become completely involved in something.

// She got some books out of the library and immersed herself in Jewish history and culture.

Immerse (v.) Immerse yourself in sth: [ T ] (Formal) 使浸沒(+in);(宗)給……施浸禮 To put something or someone completely under the surface of a liquid.

// The shells should be immersed in boiling water for two minutes.

Immersed (p. p. & a.) 浸入的;受浸禮的 Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

Immersed (p. p. & a.) (Bot.) Growing wholly under water. -- Gray.

Immersible (a.) 可浸入的 Capable of being immersed.

Immersible (a.) Not capable of being immersed.

Immersion (n.) 沉浸,浸沒;【宗】浸禮 The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

Immersion (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

Immersion (n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.

Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. -- Atterbury.

Immersion (n.) (Astron.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.

Immersion lens, A microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.

Immersion (n.) Sinking until covered completely with water [syn: submergence, submerging, submersion, immersion].

Immersion (n.) (Astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: ingress, immersion] [ant: egress, emersion].

Immersion (n.) Complete attention; intense mental effort [syn: concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion]

Immersion (n.) A form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged.

Immersion (n.) The act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing].

Immersionist (n.) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

Immeshed (imp. & p. p.) of Immesh.

Immeshing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immesh.

Immesh (v. t.) 用網捕捉;使捲入 To catch or entangle in, or as in, the meshes of a net. or in a web; to insnare.

Immethodical (a.) 不成體系的;無秩序的 Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.

Immethodically (adv.) Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

Immethodicalness (n.) Lack of method.

Immethodize (v. t.) To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse. [R.]

Immetrical (a.) 無韻律的 Not metrical or rhythmical. [R.] -- Chapman.

Immew (v. t.) See Emmew.

Compare: Emmew

Emmew (v. t.) To mew or coop up. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Immigrant (n.) (外來)移民,僑民 [C] One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Syn: See Emigrant.

Immigrant (n.) A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there.

Immigrant (n.) A person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

Immigrant, (n.) An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Immigrant (n.) An organism found in a new habitat.

Immigrant (a.) 移來的,移民的,僑民的 Of or relating to immigrants and immigration.

// A department for immigrant affairs.

Immigrant (a.) Immigrating.

Immigratnt (n.) An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

Immigrated (imp. & p. p.) of Immigrate.

Immigrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immigrate.

Immigrate (v. t.) (v. i.) 遷移;遷入 (v. t.) 使遷移 To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate.

Immigrate (v.) Migrate to a new environment; "only few plants can immigrate to the island".

Immigrate (v.) Introduce or send as immigrants; "Britain immigrated many colonists to America".

Immigrate (v.) Come into a new country and change residency; "Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century" [ant: {emigrate}].

Immigration (n.) 外來的移民,移居入境 The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Immigration (n.) Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) [syn: {immigration}, {in-migration}].

Immigration (n.) The body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony".

Imminence (n.) 迫切;緊迫的事件 The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. -- Fuller.

Imminence (n.) That which is imminent; impending evil or danger. "But dare all imminence." -- Shak.

Imminence (n.) The state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness].

Imminent (a.) (危險等)逼近的;即將發生的 Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." -- Spenser.

Imminent (a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.

Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. -- Shak.

Imminent (a.) (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to. [R.]

Their eyes ever imminent upon worldly matters. -- Milton.

Syn: Impending; threatening; near; at hand.

Usage: Imminent, Impending, Threatening. Imminent is the strongest: it denotes that something is ready to fall or happen on the instant; as, in imminent danger of one's life. Impending denotes that something hangs suspended over us, and may so remain indefinitely; as, the impending evils of war. Threatening supposes some danger in prospect, but more remote; as, threatening indications for the future.

Three times to-day You have defended me from imminent death. -- Shak.

No story I unfold of public woes, Nor bear advices of impending foes. -- Pope.

Fierce faces threatening war. -- Milton.

Imminent (a.) Close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement" [syn: at hand(p), close at hand(p), imminent, impendent, impending].

Imminently (adv.) 迫切地;緊急地 In an imminent manner.

Immingle (v. t.) (v. i. & v. t.)(使)混合 To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend.

Imminution (n.) A lessening; diminution; decrease. [R.] -- Ray.

Immiscibility (n.) (液體等)不能相混性;(人)不融洽 Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.

Immiscible (a.) 不能相混合的;不融和的 Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles. -- Cudworth.

Immiscible (a.) Specifically: (Chem.) Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; -- of two liquids; as, water and gasoline are immiscible.

Immiscible (a.) (Chemistry, physics) incapable of mixing [syn: immiscible, non-miscible, unmixable] [ant: miscible, mixable].

Immiscible (a.) That cannot undergo mixing or blending. [syn: unmixable].

// Immiscible elements.

Immiscibly (adv.) 不能相混合地;不融和地 See  Immiscible

Immiscibly (adv.) In an  immiscible  fashion.

Immiscible (a.) (Of liquids) Not forming a homogeneous mixture when added together.

Water is immiscible with suntan oil.

Compare: Homogeneous

Homogeneous (a.) 同種的;同質的;【數】同次的 Of the same kind; alike.

Timbermen prefer to deal with homogeneous woods.

Homogeneous (a.) Consisting of parts all of the same kind.

Culturally speaking the farmers constitute an extremely homogeneous group.

Homogeneous (a.) [Mathematics ] Containing terms all of the same degree.

In this work, Moritz Cantor has discovered, Feuerbach introduces homogeneous coordinates.

Immission (n.) 注入,引入,允許進入 The act of immitting, or of sending or thrusting in; injection; -- the correlative of emission.

Immitted (imp. & p. p.) of Immit.

Immiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Immit.

Immit (v. t.) 【古】注射;注入 To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.

Immitigable (a.) 不能放寬的,不能緩和的,不能減輕的 Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased.

Immitigably (adv.) In an immitigable manner.

Immix (v. t.) 使混合 To mix; to mingle. [R.]

Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek. -- Spenser.

Immix (v.) Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge].

Immixable (a.) 不能混合的 Not mixable. -- Bp. Wilkins.

Immixed (a.) Unmixed. [Obs.]

How pure and immixed the design is. -- Boyle.

Immixture (n.) 混合;融合;牽連 Freedom from mixture; purity. [R.] -- W. Montagu.

Immobile (a.) 不能動的;固定的 Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. -- Prof. Shedd. Immobilisation

Immobile (a.) Not capable of movement or of being moved [ant: mobile]

Immobile (a.) Securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" [syn: fast, firm, immobile].

Immobilise (v.) 使不動;使固定 Hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital [syn: {immobilize}, {immobilise}].

Immobilise (v.) To hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: {trap}, {pin}, {immobilize}, {immobilise}].

Immobilise (v.) Make defenseless [syn: {immobilize}, {immobilise}].

Immobilise (v.) Convert (assets) into fixed capital [syn: {immobilize}, {immobilise}].

Immobilise (v.) Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: {freeze}, {block}, {immobilize}, {immobilise}] [ant: {free}, {release}, {unblock}, {unfreeze}].

Immobilise (v.) Cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic" [syn: {immobilize}, {immobilise}].

Immobility (n.) 固定性,靜止 The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

Immobility (n.) Remaining in place [syn: stationariness, immobility, fixedness].

Immobility (n.) The quality of not moving [ant: mobility].

Immobilize (v. t.) 使不動;使不能移動;使停止流通 To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

Immobilize (v.) Hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital [syn: immobilize, immobilise].

Immobilize (v.) To hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: trap, pin, immobilize, immobilise].

Immobilize (v.) Make defenseless [syn: immobilize, immobilise]

Immobilize (v.) Convert (assets) into fixed capital [syn: immobilize, immobilise].

Immobilize (v.) Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise] [ant: free, release, unblock, unfreeze].

Immobilize (v.) Cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic" [syn: immobilize, immobilise].

Immoble (a.) [Obs.] 不能動的;固定的 See Immobile.

Immoderacy (n.) 過度;無節制 Immoderateness. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Immoderancy (n.) 無節制;過份 Immoderateness; excess. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Immoderancy (n.) [U] Immoderateness; excess. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

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