Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 77
Isoprene (n.) (Chem.) An oily, volatile unsaturated hydrocarbon ({C5H8), obtained by the distillation of caoutchouc or gutta-percha, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, it is viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons.
Isopycnic (a.) (Physics) Having equal density, as different regions of a medium; passing through points at which the density is equal; as, an isopycnic line or surface.
Isopycnic (n.) (Physics) A line or surface passing through those points in a medium, at which the density is the same.
Isorcin (n.) (Chem.) A crystalline hydrocarbon derivative, metameric with orcin, but produced artificially; -- called also cresorcin.
Isorropic (a.) Of equal value.
Isorropic line (In a diagram) (Geom.), The locus of all the points for which a specified function has a constant value. -- Newcomb.
Isosceles (a.) (Geom.) Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.
Isosceles (a.) (Of a triangle) Having two sides of equal length.
Isospondyli (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms.
Isospondyli (n.) Most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon [syn: Isospondyli, order Isospondyli].
Isospondylous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebrae separate and normal.
Isosporic (a.) (Bot.) Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic.
Isostemonous (a.) (Bot.) Having exactly as many stamens as petals.
Isostemony (n.) (Bot.) The quality or state of being isostemonous.
Isosulphocyanate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of isosulphocyanic acid.
Isosulphocyanic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, HNCS, isomeric with sulphocyanic acid.
Isotheral (a.) Having the nature of an isothere; indicating the distribution of temperature by means of an isothere; as, an isotheral chart or line.
Isothere (n.) (Phys. Geog.) A line connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean summer temperature.
Isotherm (n.) (Phys. Geog.) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.
Isotherm (n.) (Physics) A line on a graph connecting points representing states having the same temperature; an isothermal line.
Isotherm (n.) (Meteorology) An isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time.
Isothermal (a.) Relating to equality of temperature.
Isothermal (a.) (Phys. Geog.) Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart.
Isothermal line. (a) An isotherm.
Isothermal line. (b) A line drawn on a diagram of energy such that its ordinates represent the pressures of a substance corresponding to various volumes, while the absolute temperature is maintained at a constant value.
Isothermal zones, Spaces on opposite sides of the equator having the same mean temperature, and bounded by corresponding isothermal lines.
Isothermal (a.) Of a process or change taking place at constant temperature.
Isothermobath (n.) (Phys. Geog) A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.
Isothermobathic (a.) Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
Isotherombrose (n.) (Phys. Geog) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
Isotonic (a.) Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension.
Isotonic (a.) (Physiology, Biochemistry) Having an osmotic pressure (tonicity) equal to that of a reference solution; -- of aqueous solutions. Contrasting with hypotonic and hypertonic. See hypertonic.
A knowledge of the colligative properties of solutions . . . is essential for one to understand fully the principles involved in rendering intravenous solutions isotonic with blood serum, or opthalmic solutions isotonic with lachrymal fluid.
Solutions thus adjusted produce less shock and much less irritation than those which are hypotonic or hypertonic, and present-day practise recognizes the desirability of making the necessary adjustments whenever possible. -- Cook & Martin (Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, Tenth Ed.: Mack Publ., Easton Pa., 1951)
Isotonic system (Mus.), A system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.
Isotonic (a.) (Used of solutions) Having the same or equal osmotic pressure [syn: isotonic, isosmotic] [ant: hypertonic, hypotonic].
Isotonic (a.) Relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale; "isotonic tuning".
Isotonic (a.) Of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes [ant: isometric].
Isotonic (a.) Of two or more muscles; having equal tension.
Isotope (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) A form of an atom that has a different atomic weight from other forms of the same atom but the same chemical structure.
// A radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
Isotrimorphic (a.) Isotrimorphous.
Isotrimorphism (n.) Isomorphism between the three forms, severally, of two trimorphous substances.
Isotrimorphous (a.) Having the quality of isotrimorphism; isotrimorphic.
Isotropic (a.) Having the same properties in all directions; specifically, equally elastic in all directions.
Isotropism (n.) Isotropy.
Isotropous (a.) Isotropic.
Isotropy (n.) Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.
Isouric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, isomeric with uric acid.
Israel (n.) 以色列，以色列的後裔，猶太人 Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine [syn: {Israel}, {State of Israel}, {Yisrael}, {Zion}, {Sion}]
Israel (n.) An ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC.
Israeli (n.) 以色列人 A native or inhabitant of Israel.
Israeli (a.) 以色列（人）的 Of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people.
Israelite (n.) A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew. Israelitic
Israelite (n.) A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel
Israelite (n.) A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties [syn: Jew, Hebrew, Israelite].
Israelitic (a.) Alt. of Israelitish.
Israelitish (a.) Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.
Issuable (a.) Leading to, producing, or relating to, an issue; capable of being made an issue at law. -- Burrill.
Issuable (a.) Lawful or suitable to be issued; as, a writ issuable on these grounds.
Issuable plea (Law), A plea to the merits, on which the adverse party may take issue and proceed to trial.
Issuable, () practice. Leading or tending to an issue. An issuable plea is one upon which the plaintiff can take issue and proceed to trial.
Issuably (adv.) In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.
Issuance (n.) The act of issuing, or giving out; as, the issuance of an order; the issuance of rations, and the like.
Issuance (n.) The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity); "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago" [syn: issue, issuing, issuance].
Issuant (a.) (Her.) Issuing or coming up; -- A term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.
Issue (n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
Issue (n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury.
Issue (n.) That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants.
If the king Should without issue die. -- Shak.
Issue (n.) Produce of the earth, or profits of land, tenements, or other property; as, A conveyed to B all his right for a term of years, with all the issues, rents, and profits.
Issue (n.) A discharge of flux, as of blood. -- Matt. ix. 20.
Issue (n.) (Med.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
Issue (n.) The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; event; hence, contest; test; trial.
Come forth to view The issue of the exploit. -- Shak.
While it is hot, I 'll put it to the issue. -- Shak.
Issue (n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of
alternatives between which to choose or decide; a point of contention; a matter in controversy.
Issue (n.) (Law) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned. -- Blount. Cowell.
At issue, In controversy; disputed; opposing or contesting; hence, at variance; disagreeing; inconsistent.
As much at issue with the summer day As if you brought a candle out of doors. -- Mrs. Browning.
Bank of issue, Collateral issue, etc. See under Bank, Collateral, etc.
Issue pea, A pea, or a similar round body, used to maintain irritation in a wound, and promote the secretion and discharge of pus.
To join issue, or To take issue, To take opposing sides in a matter in controversy.
Issued (imp. & p. p.) of Issue.
Issuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Issue.
Issue (v. i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place.
From it issued forced drops of blood. -- Shak.
Issue (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.
Issue (v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.
Issue (v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.
Of thy sons that shall issue from thee. -- 2 Kings xx. 18.
Issue (v. i.) To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.
Issue (v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.
Issue (v. i.) To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.
Issue (v. i.) (Law) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.
Issue (v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.
Issue (v. t.) To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.
Issue (v. t.) To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.
Issue (n.) An important question that is in dispute and must be settled; "the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone"; "politicians never discuss the real issues".
Issue (n.) One of a series published periodically; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room" [syn: issue, number].
Issue (n.) Some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter].
Issue (n.) The act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity); "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago" [syn: issue, issuing, issuance].
Issue (n.) Supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government [syn: issue, military issue, government issue].
Issue (n.) The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff].
Issue (n.) A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot].
Issue (n.)
The immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many
offspring"; "he died without issue" [syn: offspring, progeny,
issue].
Issue (n.) The becoming visible; "not
a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of
the willow catkins" [syn: emergence, egress, issue].
Issue (n.) An opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: exit, issue, outlet, way out].
Issue (n.) The act of issuing printed materials [syn: issue, publication].
Issue (v.) Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper" [syn: publish, bring out, put out, issue, release].
Issue (v.) Circulate or distribute or equip with; "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds" [syn: issue, supply] [ant: recall].
Issue (v.) Bring out an official document (such as a warrant).
Issue (v.) Come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress].
Issue (v.) Make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me" [syn: write out, issue, make out, cut].
Issue, () kindred. This term is of very extensive import, in its most enlarged signification, and includes all persons who have descended from a common ancestor. 17 Ves. 481; 19. Ves. 547; 3 Ves. 257; 1 Rop. Leg. 88 and see Wilmot's Notes, 314, 321. But when this word is used in a will, in order to give effect to the testator's intention it will be construed in a more restricted sense than its legal import conveys. 7 Ves. 522; 19 Ves. 73; 1 Rop. Leg. 90. Vide Bac. Ab. Curtesy of England, D; 8 Com. Dig. 473; and article Legatee, II. Sec. 4.
Issue, () pleading. An issue, in pleading, is defined to be a single, certain and material point issuing out of the allegations of the parties, and consisting, regularly, of an affirmative and negative. In common parlance, issue also signifies the entry of the pleadings. 1 Chit. Pl. 630.
Issue, () Issues are material when properly formed on some material point, which will decide the question in dispute between the parties; and immaterial, when formed on some immaterial fact, which though found by the verdict will not determine the merits of the cause, and would leave the court at a loss how to give judgment. 2 Saund. 319, n. 6.
Issue, () Issues are also divided into issues in law and issues in fact. 1. An issue in law admits all the facts and rests simply upon a question of, law. It is said to consist of a single point, but by this it must be understood that such issue involves, necessarily, only a single rule or principle of law, or that it brings into question the legal sufficiency of a single fact only. It is meant that such an issue reduces the whole controversy to the single question, whether the facts confessed by the issue are sufficient in law to maintain the action or defence of the party who alleged them. 2. An issue in fact, is one in which the parties disagree as to their existence, one affirming they exist, and the other denying it. By the common law, every issue in fact, subject to some exceptions, which are noticed below, must consist of a direct affirmative allegation on the one side, and of a direct negative on the other. Co. Litt. 126, a; Bac. Ab. Pleas, &c. G 1; 5 Pet. 149; 2 Black. R. 1312; 8 T. R. 278. But it has been holden that when the defendant pleaded that he was born in France, and the plaintiff replied that he was born in England, it was sufficient to form a good issue. 1 Wils. 6; 2 Str. 1177. In this case, it will be observed, there were two affirmatives, and the ground upon which the issue was holden to be good is that the second affirmative is so contrary to the first, that the first cannot in any degree be true. The exceptions above mentioned to the rule that a direct affirmative and a direct negative are required, are the following: 1st. The general issue upon a writ of right is formed by two affirmatives: the demandant, on one side, avers that he has greater right than the tenant; and, on the other, that the tenant has a greater right than the demandant. This issue is called the mise. (q. v.) Lawes, Pl. 232; 3 Chit. Pl. 652: 3 Bl. Com. 195, 305. 2d. In an action of dower, the court merely demands the third part of acres of land, &c., as the dower of the demandant of the endowment of A B, heretofore the husband, &c., and the general issue is, that A B was not seised of such estate, &c., and that he could not endow the demandant thereof, &c. 2 Saund. 329, 330. This mode of negation, instead of being direct, is merely argumentative, and argumentativeness is not generally allowed in pleading.
Issue, () Issues in fact are divided into general issues, special issues, and common issues.
Issue, () The general issue denies in direct terms the whole declaration; as in personal actions, where the defendant pleads nil debet, that he owes the plaintiff nothing; or non culpabilis, that he is not guilty of the facts alleged in the declaration; or in real actions, where the defendant pleads nul tort, no wrong done or nul disseisin, no disseisin committed. These pleas, and the like, are called general issues, because, by importing an absolute and general denial of all the matters alleged in the declaration, they at once put them all in issue.
Issue, () Formerly the general issue was seldom pleaded, except where the defendant meant wholly to deny the charge alleged against him for when he meant to avoid and justify the charge, it was usual for him to set forth the
particular ground of his defence as, a special plea, which appears to have been necessary' to apprize the court and the plaintiff of the particular nature and circumstances of the defendant's case, and was originally intended to keep the law and the fact distinct. And even now it is an invariable rule, that every defence which cannot be, specially pleaded, may be given in evidence at the trial upon the general issue, so the defendant is in many cases obliged to plead the particular circumstances of his defence specially, and cannot give them in evidence on that general plea. But the science of special pleading having been frequently perverted to the purposes of chicane and delay, the courts have in some instances, and the
legislature in others, permitted the general issue to be pleaded, and special matter to be given in evidence under it at the trial, which at once includes the facts, the equity, and the law of the case. 3 Bl. Com. 305, 6; 3 Green. Ev. Sec. 9.
Issue, () The special issue is when the defendant takes issue upon only one substantial part of the declaration, and rests the weight of his case upon it; he is then said to take a special issue, in contradistinction to tho general issue, which denies and puts in issue the whole of the declaration. Com. Dig. Pleader, R 1, 2.
Issue, () Common issue is the name given to that which is formed on the single plea of non est factum, when pleaded to an action of covenant broken. This is so called, because to an action of covenant broken there can properly be no general issue, since the plea of non est fadum, which denies the deed only, and not the breach, does not put the whole declaration in issue. 1 Chit. Pl. 482; Lawes on Pl. 113; Gould, Pl. c. 6, part 1, Sec. 7 and Sec. 10, 2.
Issue, () Issues are formal and informal.
Issue, () A formal issue is one which is formed according to the rules required by law, in a proper and artificial manner.
Issue, () An informal issue is one which arises when a material allegation is traversed in an improper or artificial manner. Ab. Pleas, &c., G 2, N 5; 2 Saund. 319, a, n. 6. The defect is cured by verdict., by the statute of 32 H. VIII. c. 30.
Issue, () Issues are also divided into actual and feigned issues.
Issue, () An actual issue is one formed in an action brought in the regular manner, for the purpose of trying a question of right between the parties.
Issue, () A feigned issue is one directed by a court, generally by a court exercising equitable powers, for the purpose of trying before a jury a matter in dispute between the parties. When in a court of equity any matter of fact is strongly contested, the court usually directs the matter to be tried by a jury, especially such important facts as the validity of a will, or whether A is the heir at law of B.
Issue, () But as no jury is summoned to attend this court, the fact is usually directed to be tried in a court of law upon a feigned issue. For this purpose an action is brought in which the plaintiff by a fiction dares that he laid a wager for a sum of money with the defendant, for example, that a certain paper is the last will and testament of A; then avers it is his will, and therefore demands the money; the defendant admits the wager but avers that, it is not the will of A, and thereupon that. issue is joined, which is directed out of chancery to be tried; and thus the verdict of the jurors at law determines the fact in the court of equity.
Issue, () These feigned issues are frequently used in the courts of law, by consent of the parties, to determine some disputed rights without the formality of pleading, and by this practice much time and expense are saved in the decision of a cause. 3 Bl. Com. 452. The consent of the court must also be previously obtained; for the trial of a feigned issue without such consent is a contempt, which will authorize the court to order the proceeding to be stayed, and punish the parties engaged. 4 T. R. 402. See Fictitious action. See, generally Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t.
Issueless (a.) Having no issue or progeny; childless. "The heavens . . . have left me issueless." -- Shak.
Issuer (n.) One who issues, emits, or publishes.
Issuer (n.) An institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.).
-ist () A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.
Is't () A contraction of is it.
IST, () Immerse System Technology (VR)
IST, () Indian Standard Time [+0530] (TZ)
IST, () Initial System Test
IST, () Imperial Software Technology. (1995-10-12)
Isthmian (a.) Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
Isthmian games (Gr. Antiq.), One of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated on the Isthmus of Corinth in the spring of every alternate year. They consisted of all kinds of athletic sports, wrestling, boxing, racing on foot and in chariots, and also contests in music and poetry. The prize was a garland of pine leaves.
Isthmian (a.) Of or relating to or forming an isthmus.
Isthmuses (n. pl. ) of Isthmus.
Isthmus (n.) (Geog.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
Isthmus of the fauces. (Anat.) See Fauces.
Istle (n.) Same as Ixtle.
Compare: Ixtle.
Ixtle, Ixtli (n.) (Bot.) A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber. [Written also istle.] Ixtle
Isuret (n.) (Chem.) An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.
It (pron.) The neuter pronoun of the third person, corresponding to the masculine pronoun he and the feminine she, and having the same plural (they, their or theirs, them).
Note: The possessive form its is modern, being rarely found in the writings of Shakespeare and Milton, and not at all in the original King James's version of the Bible. During the transition from the regular his to the anomalous its, it was to some extent employed in the possessive without the case ending. See His, and He. In Dryden's time its had become quite established as the regular form.
The day present hath ever inough to do with it owne grief. -- Genevan Test.
Do, child, go to it grandam, child. -- Shak.
It knighthood shall do worse. It shall fright all it friends with borrowing letters. -- B. Jonson.
Note: In the course of time, the nature of the neuter sign t in it, the form being found in but a few words, became misunderstood. Instead of being looked upon as an affix, it passed for part of the original word. Hence was formed from it the anomalous genitive its, superseding the Saxon his. -- Latham.
The fruit tree yielding fruit after his (its) kind. -- Gen. i. 11.
Usage: It is used,
It (pron.) As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home.
It (pron.) As a demonstrative, especially at the beginning of a sentence, pointing to that which is about to be stated, named, or mentioned, or referring to that which apparent or well known; as, I saw it was John.
It is I; be not afraid. -- Matt. xiv. 27.
Peter heard that it was the Lord. -- John xxi. 7.
Often, in such cases, as a substitute for a sentence or clause; as, it is thought he will come; it is wrong to do this.
It (pron.) As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
It (pron.) As a substitute for such general terms as, the state of affairs, the condition of things, and the like; as, how is it with the sick man?
Think on me when it shall be well with thee. -- Gen. xl. 14.
It (pron.) As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
The Lacedemonians, at the Straits of Thermopyl[ae],
when their arms failed them, fought it out with nails and teeth. -- Dryden.
Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grows romantic, I must paint it. -- Pope.
Its self. See Itself.
IT (n.) The branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information [syn: information technology, IT].
Itacism (n.) (Greek Gram.) Pronunciation of [eta] (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it, that is, like e in the English word be. This was the pronunciation advocated by Reuchlin and his followers, in opposition to the etacism of Erasmus. See Etacism.
In all such questions between [epsilon] and [alpha][iota] the confusing element of itacism comes in. -- Alford.
Itacist (n.) One who is in favor of itacism.
Itacolumite (n.) (Min.) A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring in regions where the diamond is found.
Itaconic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids.
Compare: Pyrocitric
Pyrocitric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.
Itala (n.) An early Latin version of the Scriptures (the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint, and was also called the Italic version).
Italian (a.) Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin.
Italian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Italy.
Italian (n.) The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.
Italian (a.) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language; "Italian cooking".
Italian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Italy.
Italian (n.) The Romance language spoken in Italy.
Italianate (v. t.) To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. [R.] -- Ascham.
Italianate (a.) 義大利風格的；義大利化的 Italianized; Italianated. "Apish, childish, and Italianate". -- Marlowe.
Italianism (n.) 義大利式；義大利精神；義大利語調 A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.
Italianism (n.) Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
Italianized (imp. & p. p.) of Italianize.
Italianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Italianize.
Italianize (v. i.) To play the Italian; to speak Italian. --Cotgrave.
Italianize (v. i.) To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. "An Englishman Italianized." -- Lowell.
Compare: Composite
Composite (a.) 合成的，複合的，混成的；【建】（大寫）（柱型）混合的；【植】菊科的 Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Happiness, like air and water . . . is composite. -- Landor.
Composite (a.) (Arch.) Belonging to
a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the
Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is
one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth
century. See Capital.
Composite (a.) (Bot.) Belonging to the order Composit[ae];
bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle,
and dandelion.
Composite carriage, A railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.]
Composite number (Math.), One which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3..
Composite photograph or Composite portrait, One made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. -- F. Galton.
Composite sailing (Naut.), A combination of parallel and great circle sailing.
Composite ship, One with a wooden casing and iron frame.
Composite (n.) That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound. [R.]
Composite (a.) Consisting of separate interconnected parts
Composite (a.) Of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
Composite (n.) A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town" [syn: complex, composite].
Composite (n.) Considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers [syn: composite, composite plant].
Italic (a.) Relating to Italy or to its people.
Italic (a.) 【印】斜體的 Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
Italic languages, The group or family of languages of ancient Italy.
Italic order (Arch.), The composite order. See Composite.
Italic school, A term given to the Pythagorean and Eleatic philosophers, from the country where their doctrines were first promulgated.
Italic version. See Itala.
Italics (n. pl. ) of Italic.
Italic (n.) (Print.) （常複數）斜體字 An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.
Italic (a.) Characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters".
Italic (a.) Of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects".
Italic (n.) A style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right.
Italic (n.) A branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative [syn: Italic, Italic language].
Italic (n.) A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right.
Italicism (n.) A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.
Italicism (n.) The use of Italics.
Italicized (imp. & p. p.) of Italicize.
Italicizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Italicize.