Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 67
Intromit (v. t.) To allow to pass in; to admit.
Glass in the window intromits light, without cold. -- Holder.
Intromit (v. i.) (Scots Law) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
Intromit (v.) Allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club building"; "This pipe admits air" [syn: admit, allow in, let in, intromit] [ant: refuse, reject, turn away, turn down].
Intromittent (a.) Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.
Intromittent (a.) (Zool.) Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.
Intromitter (n.) One who intromits.
Intropression (n.) Pressure acting within. [R.]
Introreception (n.) The act of admitting into or within. -- Hammond.
Introrse (a.) (Bot.) Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs. -- Gray.
Introspect (v. t.) To look into or within; to view the inside of. -- Bailey.
Introspect (v.) Reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings.
Introspection (n.) A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
I was forced to make an introspection into my own mind. -- Dryden.
Introspection (n.) The contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct [syn: introspection, self-contemplation, self-examination].
Introspection, () A feature of some programming languages that allows a running program to obtain information about its own implementation.
For example, the Lisp function, "symbol-function" takes a Lisp symbol and returns the function definition associated with that symbol. Lisp is particularly suited to introspection because its source code uses the same underlying representation as its data. Another example is Perl's "can" method which returns true if a given object's class provides a given method.
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Introspectionist (n.) (Metaph.) One given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.
Introspective (a.) Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
Introspective (a.) Involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational. -- J. S. Mill.
Introspective (a.) Given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences [syn: introspective, introverted, self-examining] [ant: extrospective, extroverted].
Introsume (v. t.) To draw in; to swallow. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Introsusception (n.) The act or process of receiving within.
The person is corrupted by the introsusception of a nature which becomes evil thereby. -- Coleridge.
Introsusception (n.) (Med.) Same as Intussusception.
Introvenient (a.) Coming in together; entering; commingling. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Introversion (n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. -- Berkeley.
Introversion (n.) The condition of being folded inward or sheathed [syn: invagination, introversion].
Introversion (n.) The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" [syn: invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding].
Introversion (n.) (Psychology) An introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings [ant: ambiversion, extraversion, extroversion].
Introverted (imp. & p. p.) of Introvert.
Introverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Introvert.
Introvert (v. t.) To turn or bend inward.
Introvert (v. t.) To look within; to introspect.
Intrude (v. i.) To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.
Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced. -- Shak.
Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. -- I. Watts.
Intruded (imp. & p. p.) of Intrude.
Intruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrude.
Intrude (v. t.) To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.
Intrude (v. t.) To enter by force; to invade. [Obs.]
Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud? -- Shak.
Intrude (v. t.) (Geol.) The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.
Syn: To obtrude; encroach; infringe; intrench; trespass. See Obtrude.
Intrude (v.) Enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room" [syn: intrude, irrupt].
Intrude (v.) Eenter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!" [syn: trespass, intrude].
Intrude (v.) Search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke].
Intrude (v.) Thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" [syn: intrude, obtrude].
Intruded (p. a.) (Geol.) Same as Intrusive.
Intruder (n.) One who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.
They were all strangers and intruders. -- Locke.
Intruder (n.) Specifically: A person who enters a private residence or place of business with the intention to perform a criminal act; as, killed by an intruder.
Intruder (n.) Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission [syn: intruder, interloper, trespasser].
Intruder. () One who, on the death of the ancestor, enters on the land, unlawfully, before the heir can enter.
Intrudress (n.) A female intruder.
Intrunk (v. t.) To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. [R.] -- Ford.
Intrusion (n.) The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.
Why this intrusion?
Were not my orders that I should be private? -- Addison.
Intrusion (n.) (Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.
Intrusion (n.) (Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.
Intrusion (n.) (Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.
Intrusion (n.) Any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: invasion, encroachment, intrusion].
Intrusion (n.) Entrance by force or without permission or welcome.
Intrusion (n.) The forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.
Intrusion (n.) Rock produced by an intrusive process.
Intrusion (n.) Entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation].
Intrusion, () remedies. The name of a writ, brought by the owner of a fee simple, &c., against an intruder. New Nat. Br. 453.
Intrusion, () estates, torts. When an ancestor dies seised of an estate of inheritance expectant upon an estate for life, and then the tenant dies, and between his death and the entry of the heir, a stranger unlawfully enters upon the estate, this is called an intrusion. It differs from an abatement, for the latter is an entry into lands void by the death of a tenant in fee, and an intrusion, as already stated, is an entry into land void by the death of a tenant for years. F. N. B. 203 3 Bl. Com. 169 Archb. Civ. Pl. 12; Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.
Intrusional (a.) Of or pertaining to intrusion.
Intrusionist (n.) One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
Intrusive (a.) Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.
Intrusive rocks (Geol.), Rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted with effusive or volcanic rocks. -- In*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- In*tru"sive*ness, n.
Intrusive (a.) Tending to intrude (especially upon privacy); "she felt her presence there was intrusive" [ant: not intrusive, unintrusive].
Intrusive (a.) Of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock [ant: extrusive].
Intrusive (a.) Thrusting inward; "an intrusive arm of the sea" [ant: protrusive].
Intrusted (imp. & p. p.) of Intrust.
Intrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrust.
Intrust (v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.
Syn: To commit; consign; confide. See Commit.
Intrust (v.) 1Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit].
Intubation (n.) (Med.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.
Intubation (n.) The insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ [syn: cannulation, canulation, cannulization, cannulisation, canulization, canulisation, intubation].
Intuition (n.) A looking after; a regard to. [Obs.]
What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. -- BFuller.
Intuition (n.) Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.
Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. -- Hawthorne.
Intuition (n.) Any object or truth discerned by intuition.
Intuition (n.) Any quick insight, recognized immediately without a reasoning process; a belief arrived at unconsciously; -- often it is based on extensive experience of a subject.
Intuition (n.) The ability to have insight into a matter without conscious thought; as, his chemical intuition allowed him to predict compound conformations without any conscious calculation; a mother's intuition often tells her what is best for her child.
Intuition (n.) Instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes).
Intuition (n.) An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: intuition, hunch, suspicion].
Intuition, () The Amiga windowing system (a shared-code library). (1997-08-01)
Intuitional (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.
Intuitionalism (n.) (Metaph.) The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.
Intuitionalist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism.
Intuitionism (n.) Same as Intuitionalism.
Intuitionism (n.) (Philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition.
Intuitionistic logic
Intuitionism, () Brouwer's foundational theory of mathematics which says that you should not count a proof of (There exists x such that P(x)) valid unless the proof actually gives a method of constructing such an x. Similarly, a proof of (A or B) is valid only if it actually exhibits either a proof of A or a proof of B.
In intuitionism, you cannot in general assert the statement (A or not-A) (the principle of the excluded middle); (A or not-A) is not proven unless you have a proof of A or a proof of not-A. If A happens to be undecidable in your system (some things certainly will be), then there will be no proof of (A or not-A).
This is pretty annoying; some kinds of perfectly healthy-looking examples of proof by contradiction just stop working. Of course, excluded middle is a theorem of classical logic (i.e. non-intuitionistic logic). History (2001-03-18)
Intuitionist (n.) Same as Intuitionalist. -- Bain.
Intuitionist (a.) Of or relating to intuitionism.
Intuitive (a.) Seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.
Intuitive (a.) Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.
Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive. -- Milton.
Intuitive (a.) Received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive. -- Locke.
Intuitive (a.) Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion".
Intuitive (a.) Obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: intuitive, nonrational, visceral].
Intuitively (adv.) In an intuitive manner.
Intuitively (adv.) In an intuitive manner; "inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles".
Intuitivism (n.) The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive. -- J. Grote.
Intumesced (imp. & p. p.) of Intumesce.
Intumescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intumesce.
Intumesce (v. i.) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a yellowish black mass. -- Kirwan.
Intumesce (v.) Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America" [syn: bubble up, intumesce].
Intumesce (v.) Expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce].
Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
The intumescence of nations. -- Johnson.
Intumescence (n.) Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
Intumescence (n.) Swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) [syn: intumescence, intumescency].
Intumescence (n.) The increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) [syn: intumescence, intumescency, swelling].
Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.
Intumescent (a.) Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid].
Intumulated (a.) Unburied. [Obs.]
Intune (v. t.) To intone. Cf. Entune.
Inturbidated (imp. & p. p.) of Inturbidate.
Inturbidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inturbidate.
Inturbidate (v. t.) To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. [R.]
The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. -- Coleridge.
Inturgescence (n.) A swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Intuse (n.) A bruise; a contusion. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Intussuscepted (a.) Received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated.
Intussusception (n.) The reception of one part within another.
Intussusception (n.) (Med.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination. -- Dunglison.
Intussusception (n.) (Bot.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
Intussusception (n.) (Physiol.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.
Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intussusception. -- McKendrick.
Intussusception (n.) The folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface; "the invagination of the blastula" [syn: invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding].
Intussusception (n.) (Biology) Growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall.
Intwine (v. t.) To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined. [Written also entwine.]
Intwine (v. i.) To be or to become intwined.
Compare: Entwine
Entwine (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.]
Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. -- Shelley.
Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. -- Herbert.
Intwinement (n.) The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.
Intwist (v. t.) To twist into or together; to interweave. [Written also entwist.]
Inuendo (n.) See Innuendo.
Inulin (n.) (Chem.) A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.
Compare: Dahlin
Dahlin (n.) [From Dahlia.] (Chem.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.
Inulin (n.) Used to manufacture fructose and in assessing kidney function.
Inuloid (n.) (Chem.) A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.
Inumbrate (v. t.) To shade; to darken. [Obs.]
Inuncted (a.) Anointed. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Inunction (n.) The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.
Inunction (n.) Anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual [syn: unction, inunction].
Inunctuosity (n.) The lack of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. --Kirwan.
Inundant (a.) Overflowing. [R.] -- Shenstone.
Inundated (imp. & p. p.) of Inundate.
Inundating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inundate.
Inundate (v. t.) 浸水；泛濫；（洪水般的）撲來；壓倒 To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.
Inundate (v. t.) To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.
Syn: To overflow; deluge; flood; overwhelm; submerge; drown.
Inundate (v.) Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: {deluge}, {flood}, {inundate}, {swamp}].
Inundate (v.) Fill or cover completely, usually with water [syn: {inundate}, {deluge}, {submerge}].
Inundate (v.) - Inundated, - Inundating, - Inundation (n.), - Inundator (n.), - Inundatory (a.) : To cause (someone or something) to receive or take in a large amount of things at the same time.
Inundate (v.) To cover (something) with a flood of water.
Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood : Overflow.
Inundate (v. t.) Overwhelm <was inundated with phone calls>.
Inundate (v.) To cover with or as if with a flood <I'm inundated by mail.>.
Inundate (v.) [ T ] (Too much) 使應接不暇 To give someone so much work or so many things that they cannot deal with it all.
// We have been inundated with requests for help.
Inundate (v.) [T] (Flood) (Formal) （洪水）淹沒 To flood an area with water.
// If the dam breaks it will inundate large parts of the town.
Inundation (n.) 淹沒，泛濫；洪水；（洪水般的）撲來；壓倒 The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. -- Wilkie.
Inundation (n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists.
To stop the inundation of her tears. -- Shak.
Inundation (n.) The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" [syn: {flood}, {inundation}, {deluge}, {alluvion}].
Inundation (n.) An overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [syn: {flood}, {inundation}, {deluge}, {torrent}].
Inunderstanding (a.) Void of understanding. [Obs.] -- Bp. Pearson.
Inurbane (a.) Uncivil; unpolished; rude. Opposite of urbane. -- M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n.
Inurbanity (n.) Lack of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. -- Bp. Hall.
Inured (imp. & p. p.) of Inure.
Inuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inure.
Inure (v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." -- Milton.
He . . . did inure them to speak little. -- Sir T. North.
Inured and exercised in learning. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. -- Cowper.
"Here the fortune of the day turned, and all things became adverse to the Romans; the place deep with ooze, sinking under those who stood, slippery to such as advanced; their armor heavy, the waters deep; nor could they wield, in that uneasy situation, their weighty javelins. The barbarians on the contrary, were inured to encounter in the bogs, their persons tall, their spears long, such as could wound at a distance." In this morass the Roman army, after an ineffectual struggle, was irrecoverably lost; nor could the body of the emperor ever be found. Such was the fate of Decius, in the fiftieth year of his age; . . . -- Gibbon [quoting Tacitus] (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. 10)
Inure (v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]
Inure (v.) Cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate].
Inurement (n.) Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.