Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I

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Ichthyoidal (a.) (Zool.) Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.

Ichthyolatry (n.) Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. -- Layard.

Ichthyolatry (n.) The worship of fish [syn: ichthyolatry, fish-worship].

Ichthyolite (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish. Ichthyologic.

Ichthyologic (a.) Alt. of Ichthyological.

Ichthyological (a.) Of or pertaining to ichthyology.

Ichthyologist (n.) One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

Ichthyologist (n.) A zoologist who studies fishes.

Ichthyology (n.) The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

Ichthyology (n.) The branch of zoology that studies fishes.

Ichthyomancy (n.) Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.

Ichthyomorpha (n. pl.) (Zool.) The Urodela. Ichthyomorphic

Ichthyomorphic (a.) Alt. of Ichthyomorphous.

Ichthyomorphous (a.) Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.

Ichthyophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, fish.

Ichthyophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, fish.

Ichthyophagy (n.) The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.

Ichthyophthalmite (n.) See Apophyllite. [R.]

Ichthyophthira (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of copepod crustaceans, including numerous species parasitic on fishes.

Ichthyopsida (n. pl.) (Zool.) A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.

Ichthyosauria (n. pl.) [NL. See Ichthyosaurus.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia.

They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period.

Ichthyopterygia (n. pl.) (Paleon.) See Ichthyosauria.

Ichthyopterygium (n.) (Anat.) The typical limb, or lateral fin, of fishes.

Ichthyornis (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebrae, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormae.

Ichthyosaur (n.) (Paleon.) One of the Ichthyosaura.

Ichthyosaur (n.) Any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs.

Ichthyosauria (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An extinct order of marine reptiles, including Ichthyosaurus and allied forms; -- called also Ichthyopterygia. They have not been found later than the Cretaceous period.

Ichthyosauria (n.) Extinct marine reptiles: ichthyosaurs [syn: Ichthyosauria, order Ichthyosauria].

Ichthyosaurian (a.) (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the Ichthyosauria.

Ichthyosaurian (n.) One of the Ichthyosauria.

Ichthyosauri (n. pl. ) of Ichthyosaurus.

Ichthyosaurus (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations.

Ichthyosis (n.) (Med.) A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin. -- Ich`thy*ot"ic, a.

Ichthyosis (n.) Any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is dry and scaly like a fish.

Ichthyotomist (n.) One skilled in ichthyotomy.

Ichthyotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of fishes. [R.]

Ichthys (n.) Same as Ichthus.

Icicle (n.) A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.

Icicle (n.) Ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water.

Icicled (a.) Having icicles attached.

Icily (adv.) In an icy manner; coldly.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. -- Tennyson.

Icily (adv.) In a cold and icy manner; "`Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily."

Iciness (n.) The state or quality of being icy or very cold; frigidity.

Iciness (n.) Coldness due to a cold environment [syn: chill, iciness, gelidity].

Iciness (n.) A lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" [syn: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness].

Icing (n.) A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

Icing (n.) The formation of frost or ice on a surface [syn: frost, icing].

Icing (n.) A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes [syn: frosting, icing, ice].

Icing (n.) (Ice hockey) The act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal [syn: icing, icing the puck].

Ickle (n.) An icicle. [Prov. Eng.]

Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Netherlands whose names and icons are published. -- Hakewill.

Icon (n.) (Gr. Ch.) A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church. The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Icon (n.) A symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.

Icon (n.) (Computers) a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.

Note: In a graphical user interface, pointing to and clicking on an icon may cause any of several types of actions, such as opening a file or executing a program, depending on how the icon properties are defined.

Icon (n.) any object of uncritical devotion.

The former congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is still an icon to many party members. -- The New York Times, April 16, 1998

Icon (n.) An outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects.

Icon (n.) (Computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.

Icon (n.) A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: picture, image, icon, ikon].

Icon (n.) A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon].

Icon, () A descendant of SNOBOL4 with Pascal-like syntax, produced by Griswold in the 1970's. Icon is a general-purpose language with special features for string scanning. It has dynamic types: records, sets, lists, strings, tables. If has some object oriented features but no modules or exceptions. It has a primitive Unix interface.

The central theme of Icon is the generator: when an expression is evaluated it may be suspended and later resumed, producing a result sequence of values until it fails. Resumption takes place implicitly in two contexts: iteration which is syntactically loop-like ('every-do'), and goal-directed evaluation in which a conditional expression automatically attempts to produce at least one result. Expressions that fail are used in lieu of Booleans. Data backtracking is supported by a reversible assignment. Icon also has co-expressions, which can be explicitly resumed at any time.

Version 8.8 by Ralph Griswold includes an interpreter, a compiler (for some platforms) and a library (v8.8). Icon has been ported to Amiga, Atari, CMS, Macintosh, Macintosh/MPW, MS-DOS, MVS, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Acorn.

See also Ibpag2.

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.icon.

E-mail: , . Mailing list: icon-group@arizona.edu.

["The Icon Programmming Language", Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, Prentice Hall, seond edition, 1990].

["The Implementation of the Icon Programmming Language", Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, Princeton University Press 1986]. (1992-08-21)

Icon, () A small picture intended to represent something (a file, directory, or action) in a graphical user interface.

When an icon is clicked on, some action is performed such as opening a directory or aborting a file transfer.

Icons are usually stored as bitmap images. Microsoft Windows uses a special bitmap format with file name extension ".ico" as well as embedding icons in executable (".exe") and Dynamically Linked Library (DLL) files.

The term originates from Alan Kay's theory for designing interfaces which was primarily based on the work of Jerome Bruner. Bruner's second developmental stage, iconic, uses a system of representation that depends on visual or other sensory organization and upon the use of summarising images. (2003-08-01)

Iconic (a.) 畫像的；肖像的；因襲的 Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon.

Iconical (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

Iconism (n.) The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.

Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms. -- Cudworth.

Iconize (v. t.) To form an image or likeness of. [R.] -- Cudworth.

Iconoclasm (n.) 破壞偶像，破壞偶像主義，打破舊習 The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

Iconoclasm (n.) The orientation of an iconoclast.

Iconoclast (n.) 偶像破壞者，提倡打破舊習的人 A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

Iconoclast (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

Iconoclast (n.) A destroyer of images used in religious worship [syn: iconoclast, image breaker].

Iconoclast (n.) Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions.

Iconoclast (n.) A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."

Iconoclast (n.) A person who criticizes or opposes beliefs and practices that are widely accepted.

Iconoclast (n.) A person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration.

Iconoclast (n.) A person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions. - iconoclastic (a.) - iconoclastically (adv.)

Iconoclastic (a.) 偶像破壞的，打破舊習的 Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. -- Milman. Iconodule

Iconoclastic (a.) Characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions.

Iconoclastic (a.) Destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited.

Iconodule (n.) Alt. of Iconodulist

Iconodulist (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) 崇拜偶像者；贊成宗教崇拜使用偶像者 One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. -- Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Iconographer (n.) 插畫者；圖解者 A maker of images. -- Fairholt.

Iconographic (a.) 圖解的；肖像研究的 Of or pertaining to iconography.

Iconographic (a.) Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopaedia.

Iconography (n.) 圖解；肖像研究 The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

Iconography (n.) The study of representative art in general.

Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels,

saints, virtues, vices, etc.

Iconography (n.) The images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject; "religious iconography"; "the propagandistic iconography of a despot."

Iconolater (n.) 聖像（偶像）崇拜者 One who worships images.

Iconolatry (n.) 偶像崇拜 The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

Iconolatry (n.) The worship of sacred images.

Iconology (n.) 圖像學；聖像學；象徵法；（總稱）圖像；聖像 The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Iconology (n.) The branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms).

Iconomachy (n.) 對偶像之敵視 Hostility to images as objects of worship. [R.]

Iconomical (a.) Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Iconophilist (n.) A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.

Icosahedral (a.) (Geom.) Having twenty equal sides or faces.

Icosahedral (a.) Of or relating to an icosahedron.

Icosahedron (n.) (Geom.) 二十面體 A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

Regular icosahedron, One of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangles meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.

Icosahedron (n.) Any polyhedron having twenty plane faces.

Icosandria (n. pl.) (Bot.) 二十雄蕊綱 A Linnaean class of plants, having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx. Icosandrian

Icosandrian (a.) Alt. of Icosandrous.

Icosandrous (a.) (Bot.) Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.

Icositetrahedron (n.) (Crystallog.) A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

Compare: Trisoctahedron

Trisoctahedron (n.) (Crystallog.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.

Tetragonal trisoctahedron, A trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron.

Trigonal trisoctahedron, A trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle. Trispast

-ics () A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.

Note: The names sciences ending in ics, as mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc., are, with respect to their form, nouns in the plural number. The plural form was probably introduced to mark the complex nature of such sciences; and it may have been in imitation of the use of the Greek plurals ?, ?, ?, ?, etc., to designate parts of Aristotle's writings. Previously to the present century, nouns ending in ics were construed with a verb or a pronoun in the plural; but it is now generally considered preferable to treat them as singular. In Greman we have die Mathematik, die Mechanik, etc., and in French la metaphysique, la optique, etc., corresponding to our mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc.

Mathematics have for their object the consideration of whatever is capable of being numbered or measured. – John Davidson.

The citations subjoined will serve as examples of the best present usage.

Ethics is the sciences of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents. -- Sir W. Hamilton.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. -- De Quincey.

Mechanics, like pure mathematics, may be geometrical, or may be analytical; that is, it may treat space either by a direct consideration of its properties, or by a symbolical representation. -- Whewell.
ICS, () IBM Cabling System.

ICS, () International Classification for Standards (ISO).

ICS, () Internet Connection Sharing (MS, IE, DHCP).

ICS, () Irish Computer Society (org., Irland).

Icteric (n.) A remedy for the jaundice.

Icteric (a.) Alt. of Icterical.

Icterical (a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.

Icterical (a.) Good against the jaundice. --Johnson. Icteritious

Icteric (a.) Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc [syn: jaundiced, icteric, yellow].

Icteritious (a.) Alt. of Icteritous.

Icteritous (a.) Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

Icteroid (a.) Of a tint resembling that produced by jaundice; yellow; as, an icteroid tint or complexion.

Icterus (n.) (Med.)【醫】黃疸 The jaundice.

Icterus (n.) Yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia [syn: jaundice, icterus].

Icterus (n.) Type genus of the Icteridae [syn: Icterus, genus Icterus].

Ictic (a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. [R.] -- H. Bushnell.

Ictic (a.) Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion [syn: ictal, ictic].

Ictus (n.) (Pros.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.

Ictus (n.) (Med.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

Ictus (n.) A sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" [syn: seizure, ictus, raptus].

Icy (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty. "Icy chains." -- Shak. "Icy region." -- Boyle. "Icy seas." -- Pope.

Icy (a.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection. -- Motley.

Icy (a.) Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry].

Icy (a.) Extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar].

Icy (a.) Covered with or containing or consisting of ice; "icy northern waters".

Icy (a.) Shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice; "roads and trees glazed with an icy film."

Icy-pearled (a.) Spangled with ice.

Mounting up in icy-pearled car. -- Milton. ID

ID, (n.). [capitalized] [shortened form of identification.] Any document testifying to the identity of the bearer,

especially a card or badge.

Syn: ID

I'd () A contraction from I would or I had ; as, I'd go if I could.

Id (n.) (Zool.) A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish ({Leuciscus idus or Idus idus) of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.

Id (n.) (Psychoanalysis) That part of a person's psyche which is the unconscious source of impulses seeking gratification or pleasure; the impulses are usually modified by the ego and superego before being acted upon.

Idem (pron. or a.) [L.]

The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

ID (n.) A state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State, ID].

ID (n.) A card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.].

ID (n.) (Psychoanalysis) Primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity.

ID, () IDentification.

Irvine Dataflow

Id, () (Always called "Id") A non-{strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon.