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.
Inusitate (a.) Unusual.
Inusitation (n.) Want of use; disuse.
Inust (a.) Burnt in.
Inustion (n.) The act of burning or branding.
Inutile (a.) Useless; unprofitable.
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.
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. i.) 侵入，侵略；侵犯；侵襲 To make an invasion. -- Brougham.
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.
Invaginate (v. t.) To insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.
Invaginate (a.) Alt. of Invaginated.
Invaginated (a.) Sheathed.
Invaginated (a.) Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.
Invagination (n.) The condition of an invaginated organ or part.
Invagination (n.) One of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Invalescence (n.) Strength; health.
Invaletudinary (a.) Wanting health; valetudinary.
Invalid (a.) Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
Invalid (a.) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.
Invalid (a.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
Invalid (n.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.
Invalid (v. t.) To make or render invalid or infirm.
Invalid (v. t.) To classify or enroll as an invalid.
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.) See Invalid, n.
Invalidism (n.) The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
Invalidity (n.) Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.
Invalidity (n.) Want of health; infirmity.
Invalidness (n.) Invalidity; as, the invalidness of reasoning.
Invalorous (a.) Not valorous; cowardly.
Invaluable (a.) Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.
Invaluably (adv.) Inestimably.
Invalued (a.) Inestimable.
Invariability (n.) The quality of being invariable; invariableness; constancy; uniformity.
Invariable (a.) Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform.
Invariable (n.) An invariable quantity; a constant.
Invariance (n.) The property of remaining invariable under prescribed or implied conditions.
Invariant (n.) 【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.
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.
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.
Invect (v. i.) To inveigh.
Invected (a.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.
Invection (n.) An inveighing against; invective.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inveigler (n.) One who inveigles.
Inveil (v. t.) To cover, as with a vail.
Invendibility (n.) The quality of being invendible; invendibleness; unsalableness.
Invendible (a.) Not vendible or salable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Invention (n.) Thought; idea.
Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
Invention (n.) 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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
Inventress (n.) 女發明家 A woman who invents.
Inveracity (n.) 不誠實；無誠意；虛偽 Lack of veracity.