Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 55
Insurance (n.) The sum for which life or property is insured.
Insurance (n.) A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.]
The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection. -- Mickle.
Insurance (n.) Hence: Any means of assuring against loss; a precaution; as, we always use our seat belts as insurance against injury.
{Accident insurance}, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person.
{Endowment insurance} or {Endowment assurance}, A combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. Also called {whole life insurance}.
{Fire insurance}. See under {Fire}.
{Insurance broker}, A broker or agent who effects insurance.
{Insurance company}, A company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death.
{Insurance policy}, A certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured.
{Life insurance}. See under {Life}.
Insurance (n.) Promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company.
Insurance (n.) Written contract or certificate of insurance; "you should have read the small print on your policy" [syn: {policy}, {insurance policy}, {insurance}].
Insurance (n.) Protection against future loss [syn: {indemnity}, {insurance}].
Insurancer (n.) One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. -- Blair.
Compare: Insurer
Insurer (n.) 保險業者；保險公司；保證人 [C] A person or company that underwrites an insurance risk; the party in an insurance contract undertaking to pay compensation.
‘Even switching the amount of the shortfall predicted by your insurer to a repayment mortgage will help.’
Compare: Underwriter
Underwriter (n.) 擔保人；保險商；（證券等）認購者 A person or company that underwrites an insurance risk.
‘Insurance underwriters and risk managers are concerned about fire in sleeping areas.’
Underwriter (n.) A bank or other financial institution that pledges to buy all the unsold shares in an issue of new shares.
‘The issues are guaranteed success as the underwriters will buy whatever is not snapped up by the market.’
Underwriter (n.) A person or company that undertakes to finance or otherwise support or guarantee something.
‘A major underwriter of the project.’
Insurant (n.) 保險契約者；被保險人 The person insured , called also the insured. -- Champness.
Insured (imp. & p. p.) of Insure.
Insuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insure.
Insure (v. t.) 為……投保；接受保險 [H] [（+against）]；【美】保證，確保[+（that）] [O1] To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.
Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.
Insure (v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.
Insure (v.) Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure].
Insure (v.) Make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn: guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure].
Insure (v.) Protect by insurance; "The insurance won't cover this" [syn: cover, insure, underwrite].
Insure (v.) Take out insurance for.
Insurer (n.) One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.
Insurgence (n.) 謀叛，發生暴動 Alt. of Insurgency.
Insurgency (n.) 謀叛，發生暴動 A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.
Insurgency (n.) An organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict [syn: {insurgency}, {insurgence}].
Insurgency (n.) [ U ] 叛亂，造反，暴動 An occasion when a group of people attempt to take control of their country by force.
// The government is reported to be concerned about the growing insurgency in the south.
Compare: Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency (n.) [ U or C ] （政府的）反暴動，反叛亂 Military action taken by a government to prevent attacks by small groups of soldiers or fighters that are opposed to it
Insurgent (a.) Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious.
Insurgent (n.) [C] [P1] 起事者；暴動者；叛亂者，叛軍；【美】（政黨內的）反黨分子，反對派 A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.
Insurgent (a.) 起事的；暴動的；叛亂的；【美】反黨的，叛黨的 In opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: {insurgent}, {seditious}, {subversive}].
Insurgent (n.) A person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) [syn: {insurgent}, {insurrectionist}, {freedom fighter}, {rebel}].
Insurgent (n.) A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment [syn: {guerrilla}, {guerilla}, {irregular}, {insurgent}].
Insurmountability (n.) 不逾越；難以克服 The state or quality of being insurmountable.
Insurmountable (a.) 不能克服的；不能超越的 Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle. -- Locke.
Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable. -- I. Watts.
Syn: Insuperable; impassable; invincible.
Insurmountable (a.) Not capable of being surmounted or overcome; "insurmountable disadvantages" [syn: insurmountable, unsurmountable] [ant: surmountable].
Insurmountable (a.) Impossible to surmount [syn: insuperable, insurmountable].
Insurmountableness (n.) 不可克服 The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability.
Insurmountably (adv.) 不可克服地（難超越地） In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome.
Insurrection (n.) 起義；暴動；造反；叛亂 [C] [U] A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. -- Ezra iv. 19.
Insurrection (n.) A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Obs.]
Syn: Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny.
Usage: Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on
a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew.
I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. -- Shak.
Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. -- Bacon.
He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life. -- Milton.
Insurrection (n.) Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising].
Insurrection (n.) An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Insurrectional (a.) 叛亂的；暴動的 Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.
Insurrectional (a.) Of or relating to or given to insurrection [syn: insurrectional, insurrectionary].
Insurrectionary (a.) 暴動的 Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.
Their murderous insurrectionary system. -- Burke.
Insurrectionary (a.) Of or relating to or given to insurrection [syn: insurrectional, insurrectionary].
Insurrectionist (n.) 起義者；暴動者；造反者；叛亂者 [C] One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.
Insusceptibility (n.) 無感覺，無感受性 Lack of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.
Insusceptible (a.) 無感覺的，無感動的，不受影響的 Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery.
Insusceptive (a.) 無感覺的，無感動的，不受影響的 Not susceptive or susceptible.
Insusurration (n.) [U] (Obsolete) The act of whispering into something.
Insusurration (n.) [U] Speaking in a whisper about someone.
Inswathed (imp. & p. p.) of Inswathe.
Inswating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inswathe.
Inswathe (v. t.) To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.
Intact (a.) 完整無缺的；原封不動的；未受損傷的 [F] Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire. -- Buckle.
When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. -- F. W. Robertson. Intactible
Intact (a.) Constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; "a local motion keepeth bodies integral"- Bacon; "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"; "fought to keep the union intact" [syn: {integral}, {entire}, {intact}].
Intact (a.) (Of a woman) Having the hymen unbroken; "she was intact, virginal" [syn: {intact}, {inviolate}].
Intact (a.) (Used of domestic animals) Sexually competent; "an entire horse" [syn: {entire}, {intact}].
Intact (a.) Undamaged in any way; "the vase remained intact despit rough handling."
Intactible (a.) Alt. of Intactable.
Intactable (a.) Not perceptible to the touch.
Intagliated (a.) 凹雕的 Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. -- T. Warton.
Intaglius (n. pl. ) of Intaglio.
Intagli (n. pl. ) of Intaglio.
Intaglio (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.
Intail (v. t.) See Entail, v. t.
Intake (n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.
Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
Intake (n.) The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.
Intaminated (a.) Uncontaminated.
Intangibilities (n. pl. ) of Intangibility.
Intangibility (n.) The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.
Intangible (a.) 觸摸不到的；無形的，無實體的；難以確定的，模糊的；難以理解的 Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Intangible (a.) (Of especially business assets) Not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value; "intangible assets such as good will" [ant: {tangible}].
Intangible (a.) Incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans [syn: {intangible}, {impalpable}] [ant: {tangible}, {touchable}].
Intangible (a.) Hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of impending disaster."
Intangible (a.) Lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul" [syn: {intangible}, {nonphysical}].
Intangible (n.) 無形的東西 [C]；無形資產 [P] Assets that are saleable though not material or physical [syn: {intangible}, {intangible asset}].
Intangle (v. t.) See Entangle.
Intastable (a.) Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory.
Integer (n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.
Integrability (n.) The quality of being integrable.
Integrable (a.) Capable of being integrated.
Integral (a.) 整體的，整數的，積分的 Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
Integral (a.) Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.
Integral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.
Integral (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus.
Integral (n.) 整體；[數] 整數，積分 A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.
Integral (n.) An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent.
Integrality (n.) Entireness.
Integrally (adv.) In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.
Integrant (a.) Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral.
Integrated (imp. & p. p.) of Integrate.
Integrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Integrate.
Integrate (v. t.) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
Integrate (v. t.) To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
Integrate (v. t.) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
Integrate (v.) (C1) [ I or T ] （使）融入（某社會或群體）；（使）成為一體 To mix with and join society or a group of people, often changing to suit their way of life, habits, and customs.
// He seems to find it difficult to integrate socially.
// It's very difficult to integrate yourself into a society whose culture is so different from your own.
// Children are often very good at integrating into a new culture.
Integrate (v.) [ T ] 使合併，使成為一體 To combine two or more things in order to become more effective.
// You need to integrate exercise into your normal life.
// The idea with young children is to integrate learning with play.
Integration (n.) 整合；完成；集成 The act or process of making whole or entire.
Integration (n.) (Math.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
Note: The symbol of integration is [integral2l] (standing for the Latin summa sum), and the integral is also regarded as the limiting value of the sum of great numbers of differentials, when the magnitude of the differentials decreases, and their number increases indefinitely. See Limit, n. When the summation is made between specified values of the variable, the result is a definite integral, and those values of the variable are the limits of the integral. When the summation is made successively for two or more variables, the result is a multiple integral.
Integration (n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
Integration (n.) The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community [syn: integration, integrating, desegregation] [ant: segregation, sequestration].
Integration (n.) The act of combining into an integral whole; "a consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the two bills were passed unanimously"; "the defendants asked for a consolidation of the actions against them" [syn: consolidation, integration].
Integration (n.) An operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined.
Integration, () Combining software or hardware components or both into an overall system.
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Integrator (n.) (Math. & Mech.) 整合之人（物）；積算器 That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
Integrator (n.) A measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure [syn: integrator, planimeter].
Integrity (n.) 正直，廉正，完整 The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
Integrity (n.) Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
Integrity (n.) Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Integrity (n.) An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; "the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development"; "he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia" [syn: {integrity}, {unity}, {wholeness}].
Integrity (n.) Moral soundness; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity."
Integropallial (a.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.
Integumation (n.) That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.
Integument (n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular.
Integumentary (n.) Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.
Integumentation (n.) The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
Intellect (n.) (Metaph.) 智力；理解力；思維能力 [U] [C]；非凡的才智，出眾的才華[U]；才智非凡的人，才華出眾的人 [C]；（總稱）知識分子，知識界 [the S] The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
Intellect (n.) The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.
Intellect (n.) A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect.
Intellect (n.) knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect" [syn: mind, intellect].
Intellect (n.) The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect].
Intellect (n.) A person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual, intellect].
INTELLECT, () A query language written by Larry Harris in 1977, close to natural English.
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Intellected (a.) Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [R.]
In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. -- Cowper.
Intellection (n.) A mental act or process; especially:
Intellection (n.) (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. -- Bentley.
Intellection (n.) (b) A creation of the mind itself. -- Hickok.
Intellection (n.) The process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation].
Intellective (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
Intellective (a.) Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. -- Glanvill.
Intellective (a.) Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. -- Milton.
Intellectively (adv.) In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write." -- Warner.
Intellectual (a.) 智力的；理智的；需智力的 Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. -- I. Watts.
Intellectual (a.) Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity? -- Milton.
Intellectual (a.) Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Intellectual (a.) Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
Intellectual (n.) 知識分子；有很高智力的人 [C] The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. -- Milton.
I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. -- De Quincey.
Intellectual (n.) A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, one who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television.
Intellectual (a.) Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: {intellectual}, {rational}, {noetic}].
Intellectual (a.) Appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" [ant: {nonintellectual}].
Intellectual (a.) Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: {cerebral}, {intellectual}] [ant: {emotional}].
Intellectual (n.) A person who uses the mind creatively [syn: {intellectual}, {intellect}].
Intellectual (a.) (B2) 智力的，腦力的 Relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas.
// Looking after a baby at home all day is nice but it doesn't provide much intellectual stimulation.
// I like detective stories and romances - nothing too intellectual.
Intellectual (n.) [ C ] (C2) 知識分子，腦力勞動者 A very educated person whose interests are studying and other activities that involve careful thinking and mental effort.
// She was too much of an intellectual to find popular movies interesting
Intellectualism (n.) 【哲】理智主義；追求學問的精神；專心於知識的追求 Intellectual power; intellectuality.
Intellectualism (n.) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
Intellectualism (n.) Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, an excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings.
Intellectualist (n.) 知性論者；偏重理智者 One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] -- Bacon.
Intellectualist (n.) One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
Intellectuality (n.) 理智；知識分子 Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
Intellectualize (v. t.) To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. -- Lowell.
Intellectualize (v. t.) To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
Intellectually (adv.) In an intellectual manner.
Intellectually (adv.) In an intellectual manner; "intellectually gifted children"; "intellectually influenced."
Intelligence (n.) [U] 智能；智慧；理解力；情報；情報工作；情報機關 [G]；消息，信息 The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
Intelligence (n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. -- Spenser.
Intelligence (n.) Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid. -- Shak.
Intelligence (n.) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.]
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. -- Clarendon.