Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 68
Inurned (imp. & p. p.) of Inurn.
Inurning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inurn.
Inurn (v. t.) To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.
The sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned. -- Shak.
Inusitate (a.) Unusual. [R.] -- Bramhall.
Inusitation (n.) Lack of use; disuse. [R.] -- Paley.
Inust (a.) Burnt in. [Obs.]
Inustion (n.) The act of burning or branding. [Obs.] -- T. Adams.
Inutile (a.) Useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Inutile (a.) Not worth using.
Inutility (n.) 無益；無用；無益的物；無用的人 Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
Inutility (n.) The quality of having no practical use [syn: inutility, uselessness, unusefulness] [ant: usefulness, utility].
Inutterable (a.) 無法形容的，難以表達的，不可言傳的 Unutterable; inexpressible. -- Milton.
In vacuo (ph.)【拉】[L.] (Physics) 在真空中；孤立地，離開有關事實（或材料）地 In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
In vacuo (adv.) In isolation and without reference to anything else.
In vacuo (adv.) In a vacuum.
Invade (v. i.) 侵入，侵略；侵犯；侵襲 To make an invasion. -- Brougham.
Invaded (imp. & p. p.) of Invade.
Invading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invade.
Invade (v. t.) 侵入，侵略；侵犯，侵擾：擁入，大批進入 To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.]
Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. -- Spenser.
Invade (v. t.) To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
Such an enemy Is risen to invade us. -- Milton.
Invade (v. t.) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
Invade (v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
Syn: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See {Attack}.
Invade (v.) March aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" [syn: {invade}, {occupy}].
Invade (v.) To intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy" [syn: {intrude on}, {invade}, {obtrude upon}, {encroach upon}].
Invade (v.) Occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North" [syn: {invade}, {overrun}, {infest}].
Invade (v.) Penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs."
Invader (n.) One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
Invader (n.) Someone who enters by force in order to conquer [syn: invader, encroacher].
Invaginate (v. t.) To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in. Invaginate
Invaginate (a.) Alt. of Invaginated.
Invaginated (a.) (Biol.) Sheathed.
Invaginated (a.) (Biol.) Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.
Invaginate (v.) Sheathe; "The chrysalis is invaginated."
Invaginate (v.) Fold inwards; "some organs can invaginate" [syn: invaginate, introvert].
Invagination (n.) (Biol.) The condition of an invaginated organ or part.
Invagination (n.) The inward movement of the wall of a tissue or cell, to form a cavity; also, the cavity thus formed.
Invagination (n.) Specifically: (Biol., Embryology) The inward movement of one part of the wall of a blastula, to form a gastrula; the process of gastrulation, in which layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Note: In embolic invagination, one half of the blastosphere is pushed in towards the other half, producing an embryonic form known as a gastrula. -- In epibolic invagination, a phenomenon in the development of some invertebrate ova, the epiblast appears to grow over or around the hypoblast.
Invagination (n.) The condition of being folded inward or sheathed [syn: invagination, introversion].
Invagination (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].
Invalescence (n.) Strength; health. [Obs.]
Invaletudinary (a.) Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]
Invalid (a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
Invalid (a.) (Law) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.
Invalid (n.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
Invalid (a.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.
Invalid (v. t.) To make or render invalid or infirm. "Invalided, bent, and almost blind." -- Dickens.
Invalid (v. t.) To classify or enroll as an invalid.
Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay. -- Carlyle.
Invalid (a.) Having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license" [ant: valid].
Invalid (a.) No longer valid; "the license is invalid."
Invalid (n.) Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury [syn: invalid, shut-in].
Invalid (v.) Force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen.
Invalid (v.) Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap].
Invalid. () In a physical sense, it is that which is wanting force; in a figurative sense, it signifies that which has no effect.
Invalidated (imp. & p. p.) of Invalidate.
Invalidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invalidate.
Invalidate (v. t.) 使無效 To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.
Invalidate (v.) Declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea [syn: {invalidate}, {annul}, {quash}, {void}, {avoid}, {nullify}] [ant: {formalise}, {formalize}, {validate}].
Invalidate (v.) Make invalid for use; "cancel cheques or tickets" [syn: {cancel}, {invalidate}].
Invalidate (v.) Show to be invalid [syn: {invalidate}, {nullify}] [ant: {validate}].
Invalidate (v.) Take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract" [syn: {invalidate}, {void}, {vitiate}] [ant: {validate}].
Invalidation (n.) 無效 The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated.
So many invalidations of their right. -- Burke.
Invalidation (n.) (law) A formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) [syn: {annulment}, {invalidation}].
Invalide (n.) [F.] See Invalid, n.
Invalidism (n.) The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
Invalidism (n.) Chronic ill health.
Invalidity (n.) Lack of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.
Invalidity (n.) Lack of health; infirmity. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Temple.
Invalidity (n.) Illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses [syn: invalidity, invalidness].
Invalidness (n.) Invalidity; as, the invalidness of reasoning.
Invalidness (n.) Illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses [syn: invalidity, invalidness].
Invalorous (a.) Not valorous; cowardly.
Invaluable (a.) Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.
Invaluable (a.) Having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth [syn: invaluable, priceless].
Invaluably (adv.) Inestimably. -- Bp. Hall.
Invalued (a.) Inestimable. [R.] -- Drayton.
Invariability (n.) The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.
Invariability (n.) A quality of uniformity and lack of variation [syn: evenness, invariability] [ant: unevenness, variability].
Invariability (n.) The quality of being resistant to variation [syn: invariability, invariableness, invariance] [ant: variability, variableness, variance].
Invariable (a.) Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform.
Physical laws which are invariable. -- I. Taylor. -- In*va"ri*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*va"ri*a*bly, adv.
Invariable (n.) (Math.) An invariable quantity; a constant.
Invariable (a.) Not liable to or capable of change; "an invariable temperature"; "an invariable rule"; "his invariable courtesy" [ant: variable].
Invariable (n.) A quantity that does not vary [syn: constant, constant quantity, invariable].
Invariance (n.) (Math.) The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions. -- J. J. Sylvester.
Invariance (n.) The quality of being resistant to variation [syn: invariability, invariableness, invariance] [ant: variability, variableness, variance].
Invariance (n.) The nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it; "the invariance of the configuration under translation."
Invariant (n.) (Math.)【數】不變量 An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. -- J. J. Sylvester.
Invariant (a.) 無變化的；不變的 Unaffected by a designated operation or transformation.
Invariant (a.) Unvarying in nature; "maintained a constant temperature"; "principles of unvarying validity" [syn: {changeless}, {constant}, {invariant}, {unvarying}].
Invariant (n.) A feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it.
Invariant, () A rule, such as the ordering of an ordered list or heap, that applies throughout the life of a data structure or procedure. Each change to the data structure must maintain the correctness of the invariant. (1996-03-12)
Invasion (n.) [U] [C] 入侵，侵略；侵害，侵犯；擁入，侵佔 The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Invasion (n.) A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.
Invasion (n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease.
Syn: {Invasion}, {Irruption}, {Inroad}.Usage: Invasion is the generic term, denoting a forcible entrance into a foreign country. Incursion signifies a hasty and sudden invasion. Irruption denotes particularly violent invasion. Inroad is entry by some unusual way involving trespass and injury.
Invasion (n.) The act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder.
Invasion (n.) Any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: {invasion}, {encroachment}, {intrusion}].
Invasion (n.) (Pathology) The spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; "the tumor's invasion of surrounding structures".
Invasion (n.) The entry of a country by a public enemy, making war.
Invasion (n.) The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8, gives power to congress "to provide for calling the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions." Vide Insurrection.
Invasive (a.) Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war." -- Hoole.
Invasive (a.) (Med.) tending to spread, especially tending to intrude into healthy tissue; -- used mostly of tumors. [Narrower terms: malignant] PJC]
Invasive (a.) Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision [ant: noninvasive].
Invasive (a.) Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue; "invasive cancer cells" [ant: confined].
Invasive (a.) Involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war" [syn: incursive, invading, invasive].
Invasive (a.) Gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)].
Invect (v. i.) To inveigh. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Invected (a.) (Her.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.
Invection (n.) An inveighing against; invective. [Obs.] -- Fulke.
Invective (a.) 謾罵的 Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
Invective
(n.) 惡言謾罵 An expression which
inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach;
something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach
on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having
reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny.
The world will be able to judge of his [Junius'] motives
for writing such famous invectives. -- Sir W. Draper.
Syn: Abuse; censure; reproach; satire; sarcasm; railing; diatribe. See
Abuse.
Invective (n.) Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: {vituperation}, {invective}, {vitriol}].
Invective (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 辱駡，痛駡 Criticism that is very forceful, unkind, and often rude.
// A stream of invective from some sectors of the press continues to assail the government.
Invectively (adv.) 非難地；惡言惡語地 In an invective manner. -- Shak.
Inveighed (imp. & p. p.) of Inveigh.
Inveighing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inveigh.
Inveigh (v. i.) 猛烈抨擊；強烈抗議；痛罵 To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.
All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals,
opposed him. -- Milton.
The artificial life against which we inveighed. --
Hawthorne.
Inveigh (v.) Complain bitterly [syn:
{rail}, {inveigh}].
Inveigh (v.) Speak against in an impassioned manner; "he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society" [syn: {declaim}, {inveigh}].
Inveigh against sb/ sth (Formal) (- Phrasal verb with inveigh) (v.) 猛烈抨擊；痛駡 To strongly criticize something or someone.
// There were politicians who inveighed against immigrants to get votes.
Inveigher (n.) One who inveighs.
Inveigled (imp. & p. p.) of Inveigle.
Inveigling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inveigle.
Inveigle (v. t.) 誘騙；騙取 To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and
invite the unwary sense. -- Milton.
Inveigle (v.) Influence or urge by
gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going
along" [syn: {wheedle}, {cajole}, {palaver}, {blarney}, {coax},
{sweet-talk}, {inveigle}].
Inveigle (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 哄騙；誘騙 To persuade someone to do something in a clever and dishonest way, when they do not want to do it.
// Her son tried to inveigle her into giving him the money for a car.
Inveiglement (n.) 誘騙 The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. -- South.
Inveigler (n.) One who inveigles.
Inveil (v. t.) To cover, as with a vail. -- W. Browne.
Invendibility (n.) The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness.
Invendible (a.) Not vendible or salable. -- Jefferson. -- In*vend"i*ble*ness, n.
Invenom (v. t.) See Envenom.
Invented (imp. & p. p.) of Invent.
Inventing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invent.
Invent (v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]
And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did
invent. -- Spenser.
Invent (v. t.) To discover, as
by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the
first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode,
instrument, or machine.
Thus first Necessity invented stools. -- Cowper.
Invent (v. t.) To frame by the
imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as,
to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
Whate'er
his cruel malice could invent. -- Milton.
He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst
possible construction on others. -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: To discover; contrive; devise;
frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See Discover.
Invent (v.) Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge].
Invent (v.) Make up something artificial or untrue [syn: fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent].
Invent (v.) [ T ] (New design) (B1) 發明，創造 To design and/ or create something that has never been made before.
// The first safety razor was invented by company founder King
C. Gillette in 1903.
Invent (v.) [ T ] (Not true)
(B2) 捏造，編造，虛構
To create a reason, excuse, story, etc. that is not true, usually to deceive
someone.
// But I didn't invent the story - everything I told you is true.
Inventer (n.) One who invents.
Inventful (a.) Full of invention. -- J. Gifford.
Inventible (a.) Capable of being invented.
Inventibleness (n.) Quality of being inventible.
Invention (n.) 發明，創造 [U]；發明物，創作品 [C] The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will
be the happiness of man. -- Tatham.
Invention (n.) That which is
invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was
the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention; she patented five
inventions.
We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one
fall if not premonished. -- Evelyn.
Invention (n.) Thought; idea. --
Shak.
Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
Filling their hearers With strange invention. -- Shak.
Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a
capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. -- Dryden.
Invention (n.) (Fine Arts, Rhet.,
etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or
more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of
presenting its parts.
Invention (n.) The creation of something in the mind [syn: {invention}, {innovation}, {excogitation}, {conception}, {design}].
Invention (n.) A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation [syn: {invention}, {innovation}].
Invention (n.) The act of inventing.
Invention. () A contrivance; a discovery. It is in this sense this word is used in the patent laws of the United States. 17 Pet. 228; S. C. 1 How. U. S. 202. It signifies not something which has been found ready made, but something which, in consequence of art or accident, has been formed; for the invention must relate to some new or useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, not before known or used by others. Act of July 4, 1836, 4 Sharsw. continuation of Story's L. U.S. 2506; 1 Mason, R. 302; 4 Wash. C. C. R. 9. Vide Patent. By invention, the civilians understand the finding of some things which had not been lost; they must either have abandoned, or they must have never belonged to any one, as a pearl found on the sea shore. Lec. Elem Sec. 350.
Inventious (a.) Inventive. [Obs.]
Inventive (a.) 發明的，創造的；有發明才能的；善於創造的 Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. -- {In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n.
Inventive (a.) (Used of persons or artifacts) Marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics" [syn: {imaginative}, {inventive}].
Inventor (n.) 發明家，發明者；創作者 [C] One who
invents or finds out something new; a contriver;
especially, one who invents mechanical devices, new
drugs, new processes, or other useful objects or procedures.
Inventor (n.) Someone who is the
first to think of or make something [syn: inventor, discoverer,
artificer].
Inventor, (n.) A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Inventorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- {In`ven*to"ri*al*ly}, adv. -- Shak.
Inventories (n. pl. ) of Inventory.
Inventory (n.) 存貨清單；存貨盤存（報表）；財產目錄 [C] [U]；清單上開列的貨品；存貨 [C] [U] An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator,
of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real estate, of a deceased
person; a list of the property of which a person or estate is found to be
possessed; hence, an itemized list of goods or valuables, with their estimated
worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business.
There take an inventory of all I have. -- Shak.
Inventory (n.) The objects contained on an inventory [1]; especially: the stock of items on hand in any business, either for sale and not yet sold, or kept as raw materials to be converted into finished products.
Inventory (n.) The total value of all goods in an inventory [2].
Inventory (n.) The act of making an inventory [1].
Syn: List; register; schedule; catalogue. See List.
Inventory (n.) A detailed list of all the items in stock [syn: {inventory}, {stock list}].
Inventory (n.) The merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" [syn: {stock}, {inventory}].
Inventory (n.) (Accounting) The value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods.
Inventory (n.) A collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer" [syn: {armory}, {armoury}, {inventory}].
Inventory (n.) Making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month" [syn: {inventory}, {inventorying}, {stocktaking}, {stock-taking}].
Inventory (v.) Make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory all books before the end of the year" [syn: {inventory}, {take stock}, {stock-take}].
Inventoried (imp. & p. p.) of Inventory.
Inventorying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inventory.
Inventory (v. t.) 編制（詳細目錄等）；把……登入目錄；盤存 To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock.
I will give out divers schedules of my beauty; it shall be
inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled. -- Shak.
Inventory. () A list, schedule, or
enumeration in writing, containing, article by article, the goods and chattels,
rights and credits, and, in some cases, the lands and tenements, of a person or
persons. In its most common acceptation, an inventory is a conservatory act,
which is made to ascertain the situation of an intestate's estate, the estate
of an insolvent, and the like, for the purpose of securing it to those entitled
to it.
Inventory. () When the inventory is made of goods and estates assigned or conveyed in trust, it must include all the property conveyed.
Inventory. () In case of intestate estates, it is required to contain only the personal property, or that to which the administrator is entitled. The claims due to the estate ought to be separated; those which are desperate or had ought to be so returned. The articles ought to be set down separately, as already mentioned, and separately valued.
Inventory. () The inventory is to be made in the presence of at least two of the creditors of the deceased, or legatees or next of kin, and, in their default and absence, of two honest persons. The appraisers must sign it, and make oath or affirmation that the appraisement is just to the best of their knowledge. Vide, generally, 14 Vin. Ab. 465; Bac. Ab. Executors, &c., E 11; 4 Com. Dig. 14; Ayliffe's Pand. 414; Ayliffe's Parerg. 305; Com. Dig. Administration, B 7; 3 Burr. 1922; 2 Addams' Rep. 319; S. C. 2 Eccles. R. 322; Lovel. on Wills; 38; 2 Bl. Com. 514; 8 Serg. & Rawle, 128; Godolph. 150, and the article Benefit of Inventory.
Inventress (n.) 女發明家 A woman who invents. -- Dryden.
Inveracity (n.) 不誠實；無誠意；虛偽 Lack of veracity.