Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 54
Instruction (n.) 教育；教訓，教誨；指示，命令 The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
Instruction (n.) That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted.
Instruction (n.) Precept; information; teachings.
Instruction (n.) Direction; order; command.
Instruction (n.) (Order) (C2) [ C usually plural ] 指示，命令，吩咐 Something that someone tells you to do.
// The police who broke into the house were only acting on/ under instructions.
// [ + to infinitive ] He gave me strict instructions to get there by eight o'clock.
Instruction (n.) (Teaching) Instructions (pl.) (A2) 用法說明；操作指南 Advice and information about how to do or use something, often written in a book or on the side of a container.
// The cooking instructions say to bake it for half an hour.
// You obviously didn't read the instructions properly.
// They need clear instructions on what to do next.
Instruction (n.) (Teaching) (C2) [ U ] 教授；指導（某種技能／科目） The teaching of a particular skill or subject.
// The video provides instruction on how to operate the computer.
// The course gives you basic instruction in car maintenance.
// Have you seen the instruction manual for the washing machine?
Instructional (a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
Instructional scaffolding (n.) Is a learning process designed to promote a deeper level of learning. Scaffolding is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/ her learning goals (Sawyer, 2006).
Instructional scaffolding (n.) 鷹架理論，又名支架式教學（Scaffolding Instruction、 Instructional Scaffolding），指學生在學習一項新的概念或技能時，透過提供足夠的支援來提升學生學習能力的教學準備。Is the support given during the learning process which is tailored to the needs of the student with the intention of helping the student achieve his/ her learning goals[1] This learning process is designed to promote a deeper level of learning.
Instructive (a.) Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.
Instructor (n.) One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.
Instructress (n.) A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess.
Instrument (n.) 儀器，器械，器具；手段；樂器 That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
Instrument (n.) A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument.
Instrument (n.) A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc.
Instrument (n.) One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent.
Instrument (v. t.) 用儀器裝備 To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.
Instrumental (a.) Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business.
The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. -- Shak.
Instrumental (a.) (Mus.) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." -- Macaulay.
Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds. -- Dryden.
Instrumental (a.) (Gram.) Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms.
Instrumental errors, Those errors in instrumental measurements, etc., which arise, exclusively from lack of mathematical accuracy in an instrument.
Instrumental (a.) Relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments; "instrumental compositions"; "an instrumental ensemble" [ant: vocal].
Instrumental (a.) Serving or acting as a means or aid; "instrumental in solving the crime" [syn: implemental, instrumental, subservient].
Instrumentalism (n.) (Philos.) The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n.
Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas are biological functions of our organisms, and psychological functions whereby we direct our choices and attain our successes. -- Josiah Royce.
Instrumentalist (n.) 器樂家 One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
Instrumentalist (n.) Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) [syn: {musician}, {instrumentalist}, {player}].
Instrumentalist (n.) [ C ] （尤指專業的）樂器演奏者 A person who plays a musical instrument, especially as a job.
// He was one of the finest instrumentalists of his day.
Instrumentalities (n. pl. ) of Instrumentality.
Instrumentality (n.) 幫助，媒介，手段 The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
The instrumentality of faith in justification. -- Bp. Burnet.
The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality. -- J. H. Newman.
Instrumentality (n.) A subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement."
Instrumentality (n.) The quality of being instrumental for some purpose.
Instrumentality (n.) An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end [syn: {instrumentality}, {instrumentation}].
Instrumentally (adv.) 有助益地；使用器械（或儀器）地 ；用樂器演奏地 By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. -- South.
They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. -- Burke.
Instrumentally (adv.) With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. -- Mason.
Instrumentalness (n.) Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. [R.] -- Hammond.
Instrumentalness (n.) (Rare) The quality or condition of being instrumental; especially the fact or function of serving to bring about a result or accomplish a purpose.
Instrumentary (a.) Instrumental. [R.]
Compare: Orchestration
Orchestration (n.) (Mus.) The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
Instrumentation (n.) 樂器（演奏）法；管弦樂法；儀表安裝；使用儀器；測試設備 The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. -- H. Bushnell.
Instrumentation (n.) (Mus.) The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
Instrumentation (n.) (Mus.) The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect.
Instrumentation (n.) The act of using instruments to measure or control the behavior of an object, as a patient in a hospital or a machine being tested while under development.
Instrumentation (n.) The act of furnishing or attaching instruments to.
Instrumentation (n.) The set of instruments included in a system; as, a harvester with modern instrumentation.
Instrumentation (n.) An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end [syn: {instrumentality}, {instrumentation}].
Instrumentation (n.) The act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation.
Instrumentation (n.) The instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra.
Instrumentation (n.) The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments [syn: {orchestration}, {instrumentation}].
Instrumentist (n.) 樂器演奏家A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
Instrumentist (n.) A musician who plays an instrument, as opposed to a singer.
Instyle (v. t.) To style. [Obs.] -- Crashaw.
Insuavity (n.) Lack of suavity; unpleasantness. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Insubjection (n.) Lack of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
Insubmergible (a.) Not capable of being submerged; buoyant. [R.]
Insubmission (n.) Lack of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.
Insubordinate (a.) Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.
Insubordinate (a.) Not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys" [ant: subordinate].
Insubordinate (a.) Disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority [syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive].
Insubordination (n.) 不順從，反抗 The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Insubordination (n.) Defiance of authority [ant: {subordination}].
Insubordination (n.) An insubordinate act [syn: {insubordination}, {rebelliousness}].
Insubstantial (a.) Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] -- Shak.
Insubstantial (a.) Lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial].
Insubstantial (a.) Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor" [syn: insubstantial, jejune].
Insubstantiality (n.) Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]
Insubstantiality (n.) Lack of solid substance and strength.
Insubstantiality (n.) Lacking substance or reality [ant: solidness, substantiality, substantialness].
Insuccation (n.) The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs. [Obs.] -- Coxe.
The medicating and insuccation of seeds. -- Evelyn.
Insuccess (n.) Lack of success. [R.] -- Feltham.
Insue (v. i.) See Ensue, v. i.
Insuetude (n.) The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. -- Landor.
Insufferable (a.) Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. -- Locke.
Insufferable (a.) Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.
A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. -- Dryden.
Insufferable (a.) Used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence" [syn: impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable].
Insufferably (adv.) In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
Insufficience (n.) Insufficiency. -- Shak.
Insufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied. -- Hooker.
Insufficiency (n.) Lack of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
Insufficiency (n.) A lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy].
Insufficiency (n.) (Pathology) Inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally.
Insufficiency (n.) Lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency] [ant: adequacy, sufficiency].
Insufficiency.() What is not competent; not enough.
Insufficient (a.) 不充分的，不足的 [（+for/in）]；不適合的；不勝任的 Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His
praise." -- Cowper.
Insufficient (a.) Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.
Syn: Inadequate; scanty; incommensurate; unequal; unfit; incompetent; incapable; inefficient.
Insufficient (a.) Of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" [syn: {insufficient}, {deficient}] [ant: {sufficient}].
Insufficiently (adv.) In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
Insufficiently (adv.) 1: to an insufficient degree; "he was insufficiently prepared" [ant: sufficiently].
Insufflation (n.) The act of breathing on or into anything ; especially:
Insufflation (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
Insufflation (n.) (Med.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Insufflation (n.) (Medicine) Blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity).
Insufflation (n.) An act of blowing or breathing on or into something
Insuitable (a.) Unsuitable. [Obs.] -- In*suit`a*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.]
Insular (a.) Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
Insular (a.) Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
The penury of insular conversation. -- Johnson.
Insular (n.) An islander. [R.] -- Berkeley.
Insular (a.) Relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture."
Insular (a.) Suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels.
Insular (a.) Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners" [syn: insular, parochial].
Insularity (n.) The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. -- Pinkerton.
Insularity (n.) Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.
Insularity (n.) The state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment].
Insularly (adv.) In an insular manner.
Insulary (a.) Insular. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Insulated (imp. & p. p.) of Insulate.
Insulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insulate.
Insulate (v. t.) 使絕緣，隔離 To make an island of. [Obs.] -- Pennant.
Insulate (v. t.) To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.
Insulate (v. t.) (Elec. & Thermotics) To prevent the transfer of electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.
Insulating stool (Elec.), A stool with legs of glass or some other nonconductor of electricity, used for insulating a person or any object placed upon it.
Insulate (v.) Protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came."
Insulate (v.) Place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" [syn: {isolate}, {insulate}].
Insulated (p. a.) Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
The special and insulated situation of the Jews. -- De Quincey.
Insulated (p. a.) (Elect. & Thermotics) Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.
Insulated (p. a.) (Astron.) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible. -- C. A. Young.
Insulated wire, Wire covered with some nonconducting material, such as plastic or silk, for use in conducting electricity.
Insulation (n.) The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
Insulation (n.) (Elec. & Thermotics) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.
Insulation (n.) The material or substance used to insulate from either electrical or thermal conduction; as, fiberglass is used as thermal insulation in the walls and roofs of houses.
Insulation (n.) The state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment].
Insulation (n.) A material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity [syn: insulating material, insulant, insulation].
Insulation (n.) The act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity.
Insulation (n.) [ U ] 隔熱；隔音；絕緣 The act of covering something to stop heat, sound, or electricity from escaping or entering, or the fact that something is covered in this way.
// The animal's thick fur provides very good insulation against the arctic cold.
Insulation (n.) [ U ] 隔熱（或隔音、絕緣）材料 Material that is used to stop heat, sound, or electricity from escaping or entering.
// Glass fibre is often used as roof insulation.
Insulator (n.) One who, or that which, insulates.
Insulator (n.) (Elec. & Thermotics) A substance or object that insulates; a nonconductor; as, polyurethane foam is a popular thermal insulator.
Insulator (n.) A material such as glass or porcelain with negligible electrical or thermal conductivity [syn: insulator, dielectric, nonconductor] [ant: conductor].
Insulite (n.) (Elec.) An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
Insulous (a.) Abounding in islands. [R.]
Insulse (a.) Insipid; dull; stupid. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Insulsity (n.) Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.]
The insulsity of mortal tongues. -- Milton.
Insult (n.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Insult (n.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. -- Savage.
Insult (n.) (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.
Syn: Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront.
Insulted (imp. & p. p.) of Insult.
Insulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insult.
Insult (v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Insult (v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
Insult (v. i.) To leap or jump.
Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. -- Shak.
Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king. -- Jer. Taylor.
Insult (v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic]
The lion being dead, even hares insult. -- Daniel.
An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. -- Landor.
Insult (n.) A rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification].
Insult (n.) A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [syn: insult, affront].
Insult (v.) Treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his
classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: diss, insult, affront].
Insultable (a.) Capable of being insulted or affronted. [R.] -- Emerson.
Insultation (n.) The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Insultation (n.) Exultation. [Obs.] -- Is. xiv. (heading).
Insulter (n.) One who insults. -- Shak.
Insulting (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv.
Syn: Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
Insulting (a.) Expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful].
Insultment (n.) Insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] "My speech of insultment ended." -- Shak.
Insume (v. t.) To take in; to absorb. [Obs.]
Insuperability (n.) 不能制勝，不能克服 The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
Insuperable (a.) 不能制勝的，不能克服的 Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line? -- Pope.
The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. -- I. Taylor.
Syn: Impassable; insurmountable; unconquerable. -- In*su"per*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*su"per*a*bly, adv.
Insuperable (a.) Impossible to surmount [syn: {insuperable}, {insurmountable}].
Insuperable (a.) Incapable of being surmounted or excelled; "insuperable odds"; "insuperable heroes" [syn: {insuperable}, {unconquerable}].
Insupportable (a.) 不能忍受的；無根據的 Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
Insupportable (a.) Incapable of being justified or explained [syn: {indefensible}, {insupportable}, {unjustifiable}, {unwarrantable}, {unwarranted}].
Insupposable (a.) Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.
Insuppressible (a.) 不可抑制的 That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. --Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
Insuppressive (a.) Insuppressible. [Obs.] "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." -- Shak.
Insurable (a.) 可保險的 Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.
The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof. -- Walsh.
Insurable (a.) capable of being insured or eligible to be insured.
Insurance (n.) 保險；保險契約 [U] [（+against）]；保險業 [U] The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. {Assurance}, n., 6.
Note: The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy. -- Johnson's Cyc.
Insurance (n.) The premium paid for insuring property or life.