Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 16
Imploring (a.) 懇求的 That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly, adv.
Imploring (a.) Begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring] [ant: imperative].
Implosion (n.) 向內爆炸；向內破裂 A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.
Implosion (n.) Hence: The inward-moving detonation wave cause by detonation of explosives arrayed spherically around a core; -- a technique used in atomic bombs to compress fissionable material to allow a chain reaction time to produce an explosion of the fissionable material.
Implosion (n.) (Phon.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] [sect] 159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany. -- H. Sweet.
Implosion (n.) A sudden inward collapse; "the implosion of a light bulb".
Implosion (n.) The initial occluded phase of a stop consonant.
Implosive (a.) (Phon.) 【語】閉塞音的 Formed by implosion. -- n. An implosive sound, an implodent. -- Im*plo"sive*ly, adv. -- H. Sweet.
Implosive (n.) (Phon.) 【語】內爆發音 An implosive sound, an implodent.
Implumed (a.) Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless.
Implunge (v. t.) To plunge.
Impluvium (n.) (pl. - via ) （古代羅馬房屋院內的）蓄水池 In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.
Compare: Compluvium
Compluvium (n.) (pl. Compluvia) (Architecture) [建]（古羅馬房屋的）房頂方井（雨水經此流入院中蓄水池）A space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
Compare: Cistern
Cistern (n.) 貯水器；水槽；水池（屋頂上的） A tank for storing water, especially one supplying taps or as part of a flushing toilet.
Cistern (n.) An underground reservoir for rainwater.
Implied (imp. & p. p.) of Imply.
Implying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imply.
Imply (v. t.) 暗指；暗示；意味著 [+（that）]；必然包含；必需 To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." -- Chapman.
Imply (v. t.) To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.
Where a malicious act is proved, a malicious intention is implied. -- Bp. Sherlock.
When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. -- Blackstone.
Imply (v. t.) To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.]
Whence might this distaste arise?
If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. -- J. Webster.
Syn: To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See Involve.
Imply (v.) Express or state indirectly [syn: imply, connote].
Imply (v.) Suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic.
Imply (v.) Have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: entail, imply, mean].
Imply (v.) Suggest that someone is guilty [syn: incriminate, imply, inculpate].
Imply (v.) Have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes" [syn: imply, involve].
Impoison (v. t.) To poison; to imbitter; to impair.
Impoisoner (n.) A poisoner. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Impoisonment (n.) The act of poisoning or impoisoning. [Obs.] -- Pope. Impolarily
Impolarily (adv.) Alt. of Impolarly
Impolarly (adv.) Not according to or in, the direction of the poles. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Impolicy (n.) 失策 The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. -- Bp. Horsley.
Impolite (a.) Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n.
Impolite (a.) Not polite [Ant: polite].
Impolitic (a.) Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.
The most unjust and impolitic of all things, unequal taxation. -- Burke.
Syn: Indiscreet; inexpedient; undiplomatic.
Impolitic (a.) Not politic; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue" [ant: politic].
Impolitical (a.) Impolitic. [Obs.] -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Impoliticly (adv.) In an impolitic manner.
Impoliticness (n.) The quality of being impolitic.
Imponderabilia (pl. n.) 難以衡量的事物 Imponderables.
// It ignores these imponderabilia without which life is no life, history no history, and a people no people. -- American Quarterly
Imponderability (n.) The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.
Imponderable (a.) 不可稱量估計的；不能確實判定或解釋的 Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
Imponderable (n.) (Physics) 難以衡量的事物 An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.
Imponderable (a.) Difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility" [ant: ponderable].
Imponderable (n.) A factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed; "human behavior depends on many imponderables".
Imponderableness (n.) 無重量 The quality or state of being imponderable.
Imponderous (a.) 不可稱量估計的；不能確實判定或解釋的 Imponderable. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pon"der*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Impone (v. t.) To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.]
Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. -- Shak.
Impoofo (n.) The eland.
Impoon (n.) The duykerbok.
Impoor (v. t.) To impoverish.
Imporosity (n.) The state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness.
Imporous (a.) Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid.
Imported (imp. & p. p.) of Import.
Importing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Import.
Import (v. t.) To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.
Import (v. t.) To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.
Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. -- Hooker.
Import (v. t.) To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.
I have a motion much imports your good. -- Shak.
If I endure it, what imports it you? -- Dryden.
Syn: To denote; mean; signify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest; concern.
Import (v. i.) To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that . . . importeth to the work." -- Bacon.
Import (n.) Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.
Import (n.) That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
Import (n.) Importance; weight; consequence.
Importable (a.) Capable of being imported.
Importable (a.) Not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable.
Importance (n.) The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
Importance (n.) Subject; matter.
Importance (n.) Import; meaning; significance.
Importance (n.) Importunity; solicitation.
Importancy (n.) Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important.
Important (a.) Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
Important (a.) Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
Important (a.) Bearing on; forcible; driving.
Important (a.) Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Important (a.) (A1) 必需的；重要的；珍貴的 Necessary or of great value.
// I think his career is more important to him than I am.
// It's important for children to learn to get on with each other.
// The important thing is to keep the heat low or the sugar will burn.
// He's not amazingly handsome, but he's nice and that's more important.
Opposite: Unimportant
Unimportant (a.) (B1) 不重要的，無足輕重的 Not important.
// Staffing is still a relatively unimportant issue compared to our other problems.
Important (a.) (B1) 重大的；很有影響力的 Having great effect or influence.
// He was one of the most important writers of that period.
An important person/ decision.
Importantly (adv.) In an important manner.
Importation (n.) The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering. [R.]
Importation (n.) The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation.
Importation (n.) That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
Importation (n.) The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country [syn: importing, importation].
Importation (n.) Commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country [syn: import, importation] [ant: export, exportation].
Importation (n.), comm. law. The act of bringing goods and merchandise into the United States from a foreign country. 9 Cranch, 104, 120; 5 Cranch, 368; 2 Mann. & Gr. 155, note a.
Importation (n.) To prevent the mischievous interference of the several states with the national commerce, the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 10, provides as follows: "No state shall, without the consent of the congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws, and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the congress."
Importation (n.) This apparently plain provision has received a judicial construction. In the year 1821, the legislature of Maryland passed an act requiring that all importers of foreign articles, commodities, &c., by the bale or package, of wine, rum, &c., and other persons selling the same by wholesale, bale or package, hogshead, barrel or tierce, should, before they were authorized to sell, take out a license for which they were to pay fifty dollars, under certain penalties. A question arose whether this act was or was not a violation of the constitution of the United States, and particularly of the above clause, and the supreme court decided against the constitutionality of the law. 12 Wheat. 419.
Importation (n.) The act of congress of March 1, 1817, 3 Story, L. U. S. 1622, provides:
Importation (n.) That, after the 30th day of September next, no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly or wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production or manufacture; or from which such goods, wares or merchandise, can only be or most usually are, first shipped for transportation: Provided, nevertheless, That this regulation shall not extend to the vessels of any foreign nation which has not adopted, and which shall not adopt a similar regulation.
Importation (n.) That all goods, wares or merchandise, imported into the United States contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and the ship or vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States and such goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or vessel, and cargo, shall be liable to be seized, prosecuted, and condemned, in like manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as have been heretofore established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws.
Importation (n.) That no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall, be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States, in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power; but this clause shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States, provided no goods, wares, or mere other than those imported in such vessel from some foreign port, and which shall not have been unladen, shall be carried from one port or place to another in the United States.
Importation (n.) That after the 30th day of September next, there shall be paid upon every ship or vessel of the United States, which shall be entered in the United States from any foreign port or place, unless the officers, and at least two-thirds of the crew thereof, shall be proved citizens of the United States, or persons not the Subjects of any foreign prince or state, to the satisfaction of the collector, fifty cents per ton: And provided also, that this section shall not extend to ships or vessels of the United States, which are now on foreign voyages, or which may depart from the United States prior to the first day of May next, until after their return to some port of the United States.
Importation (n.) That the several bounties and remissions, or abatements of duty, allowed by this act, in the case of vessels having a certain proportion of seamen who are American citizens, or persons not the subjects of any foreign power, shall be allowed only, in the case of vessels having such proportion of American seamen during their whole voyage, unless in case of sickness, death or desertion, or where the whole or part of the crew shall have been taken prisoners in the voyage. Vide article Entry of goods at the Custom-house.
Imported (a.) Brought into the country from a foreign source; -- used of especially merchandise; -- correlative of exported. imported wines.
Imported (a.) Used of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source; "imported wines".
Imported (a.) (Of goods or services) Brought into a country from abroad for sale.
‘Imported cigarettes.’
Imported (a.) (Of data) Transferred into a file or document.
‘Analysis of the imported data.’
Importer (n.) One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.
Importer (n.) Someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country).
Importing (a.) Full of meaning.
Importless (a.) Void of meaning.
Importunable (a.) Heavy; insupportable.
Importunacy (n.) The quality of being importunate; importunateness.
Importunacy (n.) Constant demanding and pressure; importunity.
Importunate (a.) 纏擾不休的；討厭的；強求的 Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.
Importunate (a.) Hard to be borne; unendurable.
Importunator (n.) One who importunes; an importuner.
Importunee (a.) Inopportune; unseasonable.
Importunee (a.) Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation.
Importuned (imp. & p. p.) of Importune.
Importuning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Importune.
Importune (a.) To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
Importune (a.) To import; to signify.
Importune (v. i.) To require; to demand. [Obs.]
Importunely (adv.) In an importune manner.
Importuner (n.) One who importunes.
Importunities (n. pl. ) of Importunity
Importunity (n.) 硬要；強求 The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.
Importuous (a.) (Not comparable) Without a port or harbor.
Imposable (a.) Capable of being imposed or laid on.
Imposableness (n.) Quality of being imposable.
Imposed (imp. & p. p.) of Impose.
Imposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impose.
Impose (v. t.) 徵（稅）；加（負擔等）於 [（+on/ upon）]；把……強加於 [（+on/ upon）] To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
Impose (v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.
Impose (v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
Impose (v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
Impose (v. i.) 利用，佔便宜；打擾 [（+on/ upon）]；欺騙 [（+on/ upon）] To practice trick or deception.
Impose (n.) A command; injunction. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Impose (v.) Compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: {enforce}, {impose}].
Impose (v.) Impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: {inflict}, {bring down}, {visit}, {impose}].
Impose (v.) Impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: {levy}, {impose}].
Imposement (n.) (Obsolete) 徵收 Imposition.
Imposer (n.) One who imposes.
Imposing (a.) 令人難忘的,；，壯麗的,，威風的 Laying as a duty; enjoining.
Imposing (a.) Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle.
Imposing (a.) Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
Imposing (n.) The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.
Imposing (a.) 壯觀的；宏偉的；氣宇不凡的 Having an appearance that looks important or causes admiration.
// An imposing mansion.
// He was an imposing figure on stage.
Imposingly (adv.) 轟轟烈烈 In an imposing manner.
Imposingness (n.) (Uncountable) 給人印象深刻 The quality of being imposing.
Imposition (n.) 徵收，課稅，稅款，欺騙 The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
Imposition (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.