Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 8
Imaginable (a.) Capable of being imagined; conceivable.
Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. --Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.
Imaginable (a.) Capable of being imagined; "that is one possible answer" [syn: conceivable, imaginable].
Imaginal (a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.
Imaginal (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to an imago.
Imaginal disks (Zool.), Masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larv[ae] of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.
Imaginant (a.) Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Imaginant (n.) An imaginer. [Obs.] -- Glanvill.
Imaginarily (a.) In a imaginary manner; in imagination. -- B. Jonson.
Imaginariness (n.) The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.
Imaginary (a.) Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.
Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? -- Addison.
Imaginary calculus See under Calculus.
Imaginary expression or Imaginary quantity (Alg.), An algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, [root]-9, a + b [root]-1.
Imaginary points, Lines, surfaces, etc. (Geom.), points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.
Syn: Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal; illusive.
Imaginary (n.) (Alg.) An imaginary expression or quantity.
Imaginary (a.) Not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [syn: fanciful, imaginary, notional].
Imaginary (n.) (Mathematics) A number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 [syn: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number, imaginary].
Imaginary (a.) (C1) 想像中的；虛構的 Something that is imaginary is created by and exists only in the mind.
// As a child I had an imaginary friend.
// The story is set in an imaginary world.
// Imaginary fears.
Imaginate (a.) Imaginative. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Imagination (n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. -- Glanvill.
Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. -- Bacon.
Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
The imagination of common language -- the productive imagination of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparative." -- Sir W. Hamilton.
The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination. -- I. Taylor.
The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived.
But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. -- Stewart.
Imagination (n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. -- Shak.
Imagination (n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion. -- Shak.
Syn: Conception; idea; conceit; fancy; device; origination; invention; scheme; design; purpose; contrivance.
Usage: Imagination, Fancy. These words have, to a great extent, been interchanged by our best writers, and considered as strictly synonymous. A distinction, however, is now made between them which more fully exhibits their nature. Properly speaking, they are different exercises of the same general power -- the plastic or creative faculty. Imagination consists in taking parts of our conceptions and combining them into new forms and images more select, more striking, more delightful, more terrible, etc., than those of ordinary nature. It is the higher exercise of the two.
It creates by laws more closely connected with the reason; it has strong emotion as its actuating and formative cause; it aims at results of a definite and weighty character. Milton's fiery lake, the debates of his Pandemonium, the exquisite scenes of his Paradise, are all products of the imagination. Fancy moves on a lighter wing; it is governed by laws of association which are more remote, and sometimes arbitrary or capricious. Hence the term fanciful, which exhibits fancy in its wilder flights. It has for its actuating spirit feelings of a lively, gay, and versatile character; it seeks to please by unexpected combinations of thought, startling contrasts, flashes of brilliant imagery, etc. Pope's Rape of the Lock is an exhibition of fancy which has scarcely its equal in the literature of any country. -- "This, for instance, Wordsworth did in respect of the words `imagination' and `fancy.' Before he wrote, it was, I suppose, obscurely felt by most that in `imagination' there was more of the earnest, in `fancy' of the play of the spirit; that the first was a loftier faculty and gift than the second; yet for all this words were continually, and not without loss, confounded. He first, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, rendered it henceforth impossible that any one, who had read and mastered what he has written on the two words, should remain unconscious any longer of the important difference between them." -- Trench.
The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale. -- C. J. Smith.
Imagination (n.) The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" [syn: imagination, imaginativeness, vision].
Imagination (n.) The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination" [syn: imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery].
Imagination (n.) The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems; "a man of resource" [syn: resource, resourcefulness, imagination].
Imagination (n.) (B1) [ C or U ] 想像力 The ability to form pictures in the mind.
// My younger son has a very vivid (= active) imagination.
// I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no imagination.
// For some reason the story captured/ caught the imagination of the public (= made them very interested).
// It couldn't by any stretch of the imagination be described as a (= it is certainly not a) beautiful city.
// There's a sex scene in the film which apparently leaves nothing to the imagination (= shows sexual parts of the body very clearly).
Imagination (n.) [ U ] 幻覺；幻想；空想 Something that you think exists or is true, although in fact it is not real or true.
// Was she paying him a lot of attention or was it just my imagination?
// Is it my imagination or is David behaving strangely at the moment?
Imagination (n.) (B1) [ U ] 創造力 The ability to think of new ideas.
// It's a job that needs someone with a bit of imagination.
Imaginational (a.) Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.
Imaginationalism (n.) Idealism. -- J. Grote.
Imaginative (a.) Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element. -- Mure.
Imaginative (a.) Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative.
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. -- Coleridge.
Imaginative (a.) Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Im*ag"i*na*tive*ly, adv. -- Im*ag"i*na*tive*ness, n.
Imaginative (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].
Imagined (imp. & p. p.) of Imagine.
Imagining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imagine.
Imagine (v. t.) To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! -- Shak.
Imagine (v. t.) To contrive in
purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t.,
5.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? -- Ps.
lxii. 3.
Imagine (v. t.) To represent to one's self; to think; to believe. -- Shak.
Syn: To fancy; conceive; apprehend; think; believe; suppose; opine; deem; plan; scheme; devise.
Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
Imagine (v. i.) To think; to suppose.
My sister is not so defenseless left As you imagine. -- Milton.
Imagine (v.) Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage].
Imagine (v.) Expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess].
Imagineer (n.) A employee responsible for creative planning and engineering.
Imagineer (n.) Imagineer Co., Ltd. is a Japanese entertainment company headquartered in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The name "Imagineer" is a portmanteau, derived from the words "imagination" and "engineer". They started publishing video games in the mid-1980s. In the late 90's the company published a few games for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn under the name Imadio. The computer game software production and publishing has been once the heart of their business, however, nowadays they are more focused on the Japanese phone business.
Imaginer (n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. -- Bacon.
Imaginous (a.) Imaginative. [R.] -- Chapman.
Imagoes (n. pl. ) of Imago.
Imago (n.) An image.
Imago (n.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.
Imam (n.) Alt. of Imaum.
Iman (n.) Alt. of Imaum.
Imaum (n.) Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.
Imaum (n.) A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.
Imaret (n.) A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.
Imbalance (n.) [Mass noun] 不均衡狀態；不安定 Lack of proportion or relation between corresponding things.
‘Tension is generated by the imbalance of power.’
[Count noun] ‘The condition is caused by a hormonal imbalance.’
Imbalm (v. t.) See Embalm.
Imban (v. t.) To put under a ban.
Imband (v. t.) To form into a band or bands.
Imbanked (imp. & p. p.) of Imbank.
Imbanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbank.
Imbank (v. t.) To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.
Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.
Imbannered (a.) Having banners.
Imbar (v. t.) To bar in; to secure.
Imbargo (n.) See Embargo.
Imbark (v. i. & t.) See Embark.
Imbarn (v. t.) To store in a barn.
Imbase (v. t.) See Embase.
Imbase (v. i.) To diminish in value.
Imbastardize (v. t.) To bastardize; to debase.
Imbathe (v. t.) To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce.
Imbay (v. t.) See Embay.
Imbecile (a.) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.
Imbecile (n.) One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.
Imbecile (v. t.) To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
Imbecilitate (v. t.) To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
Imbecilities (n. pl. ) of Imbecility
Imbecility (n.) The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.
Imbedded (imp. & p. p.) of Imbed.
Imbedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbed.
Imbed (v. t.) To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.
Imbellic (a.) Not warlike or martial.
Imbenching (n.) A raised work like a bench.
Imber-goose (n.) The loon. See Ember-goose.
Imbezzle (v. t.) See Embezzle.
Imbibed (imp. & p. p.) of Imbibe.
Imbibing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbibe.
Imbibe (v. t.) To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
Imbibe (v. t.) To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.
Imbibe (v. t.) To saturate; to imbue.
Imbiber (n.) One who, or that which, imbibes.
Imbibition (n.) The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.
Imbittered (imp. & p. p.) of Imbitter.
Imbittering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbitter.
Imbitter (v. t.) To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.
Imbitterer (n.) One who, or that which, imbitters.
Imbitterment (n.) The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
Imblaze (v. t.) See Emblaze.
Imblazon (v. t.) See Emblazon.
Imbody (v. i.) To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.
Imboil (v. t. & i.) See Emboil.
Imbolden (v. t.) See Embolden.
Imbonity (n.) Want of goodness.
Imbordered (imp. & p. p.) of Imborder.
Imbordering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imborder.
Imborder (v. t.) To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of.
Imbosked (imp. & p. p.) of Imbosk.
Imbosking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbosk.
Imbosk (v. t.) To conceal, as in bushes; to hide.
Imbosk (v. i.) To be concealed.
Imbosomed (imp. & p. p.) of Imbosom.
Imbosoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbosom.
Imbosom (v. t.) To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.
Imbosom (v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove.
Imboss (v. t.) See Emboss.
Imbosture (n.) Embossed or raised work.
Imbound (v. t.) To inclose in limits; to shut in.
Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.
Imbowel (v. t.) See Embowel.