📖 I — The English dictionary · page 14

inconsolable — Everyday, meaning 1: So sad or upset that nothing can cheer you up: an inconsolable child after losing a toy.↗ Example: The little girl was inconsolable when her puppy ran away.↗ · The king was inconsolable after the storm.↗ · He was inconsolable at losing his best friend.↗

inconstant — Everyday, meaning 1: (literary) Changing often; not loyal or faithful: an inconstant friend.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not steady; changing in amount or strength: an inconstant wind.↗ Example: The inconstant wind kept changing direction.↗ · In the poem, the moon is called inconstant because it changes shape.↗ · He was an inconstant friend who forgot us when someone new came along.↗ · Spring weather in Ireland is inconstant: sun, then rain.↗ · The candle's inconstant flame flickered.↗ · The old song warned of an inconstant heart.↗

incontinence — Everyday, meaning 1: Not being able to control when you pass urine or poo; it is a medical condition.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, old) A lack of self-control.↗ Example: Grandad has incontinence since his operation.↗ · Some older people need help with incontinence.↗ · Babies wear nappies because they cannot control their bladder yet.↗ · Incontinence pads are sold at the chemist.↗ · The nurse helped him with his incontinence.↗ · Some medicines can cause incontinence.↗

incontrovertibly — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) In a way that nobody can argue against or prove wrong, because the facts are completely clear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Without any possible doubt; certainly.↗ Example: The video incontrovertibly showed that the ball crossed the line.↗ · The experiment proved incontrovertibly that plants need light to grow.↗ · The fingerprints incontrovertibly linked the thief to the broken window.↗ · It is incontrovertibly true that 2 + 2 = 4.↗ · The results were incontrovertibly clear, so the teacher did not ask us to repeat the test.↗ · «You took the last biscuit,» said Mum, «and the crumbs prove it incontrovertibly.»↗ · Scientists have shown incontrovertibly that the Earth goes round the Sun.↗

inconvenience — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) Trouble or difficulty that stops things going smoothly or easily.↗ e.g. Sorry for the inconvenience.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) Something that causes small trouble.↗ e.g. The broken lift is an inconvenience.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To cause someone trouble or extra work.↗ e.g. I don't want to inconvenience you.↗ Example: We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the roadworks.↗ · Having no hot water is a big inconvenience.↗ · I hope I'm not inconveniencing you.↗ · The late bus was a small inconvenience.↗ · Sorry for the inconvenience — the shop opens again soon.↗ · Living far from school is an inconvenience.↗ · The magic waters, of course, soon remedy this temporary inconvenience.↗ [309]↗

inconvenient — Everyday, meaning 1: Causing trouble or getting in the way of what you want to do: an inconvenient time for a visit.↗ Example: The rain came at an inconvenient time.↗ · It is inconvenient to lose your bus pass.↗ · Sleeping on a hard floor is inconvenient.↗

inconveniently — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that causes trouble or difficulty, or at a bad time: «The bus broke down inconveniently in the rain.».↗ Example: The shop is inconveniently far from the station.↗ · It started raining inconveniently just as we left.↗ · The plug was inconveniently placed behind the sofa.↗ · Inconveniently, my pencil broke during the test.↗ · The dentist appointment was inconveniently timed during football practice.↗ · The bridge was inconveniently closed for repairs.↗

incorporate — Everyday, meaning 1: To include something as part of a bigger thing: incorporate ideas into a story.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mix in: incorporate the butter into the flour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (business, law) To make a company into a legal organisation; «Inc.» after a US company name means «Incorporated».↗ Example: Try to incorporate three new adjectives into your story.↗ · Gently incorporate the eggs into the cake mixture.↗ · The new design incorporates a cup holder.↗ · Our school play incorporated songs from around the world.↗ · The town was incorporated in 1850.↗ · The company's name ends in «Inc.», short for «Incorporated».↗

incorporated — Everyday, meaning 1: Incorporated means included as part of something bigger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money, law) An incorporated company has been officially set up as a corporation, a legal business; «Inc.» after a company name stands for incorporated.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An incorporated town or city has its own official local government.↗ Example: She incorporated her friends' ideas into the poster.↗ · The flour was incorporated into the mixture.↗ · The company was incorporated in 1998.↗ · «Inc.» stands for incorporated.↗ · The village was incorporated as a city.↗ · Our project incorporated drawings, facts and a quiz.↗ · There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education.↗

incorporation — Everyday, meaning 1: Including something or someone as part of a bigger whole: the incorporation of new ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (business, law) Making a business into an official company, a corporation (Inc. in the USA).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Joining a town or area into another one.↗ Example: The incorporation of fruit into school meals made them healthier.↗ · The incorporation of the village into the city happened in 1900.↗ · Inc. after a company name means it is incorporated.↗ · The teacher praised the incorporation of quotes in my essay.↗ · Incorporation of new players into the team took time.↗ · The incorporation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 was not accepted by most UN countries.↗

incorrect — Everyday, meaning 1: Not right or not true; wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not suitable or not polite for the situation, as in «incorrect behaviour».↗ Example: Your answer is incorrect — try again.↗ · The spelling of «freind» is incorrect.↗ · The shop gave me incorrect change.↗ · His prediction was incorrect, but he learned a lot.↗ · That information is incorrect.↗ · Incorrect use of the oven can be dangerous.↗ · Minor punctuation errors (omitted or incorrect punctuation, mismatched quote marks etc.) have been amended without note.↗ · The explanatory notes given by this author are, nevertheless, insufficient and sometimes very incorrect.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

incorrectly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a wrong way; not correctly.↗ Example: He added the numbers incorrectly.↗ · My name was spelt incorrectly on the certificate.↗ · The car seat was fitted incorrectly.↗ · If you measure incorrectly, the cake will flop.↗ · She answered two questions incorrectly.↗ · The plug was wired incorrectly.↗

incorrigible — Everyday, meaning 1: Having bad habits or faults that cannot be changed or corrected: «an incorrigible liar».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (playful) Always doing something naughty or silly that people half like: «You're incorrigible!».↗ Example: Toad was incorrigible; he always went back to motor cars.↗ · My puppy is an incorrigible thief of socks.↗ · Grandad is an incorrigible joker.↗ · «You're incorrigible!» laughed Mum when I took another biscuit.↗ · The teacher called him an incorrigible chatterbox.↗ · She is an incorrigible optimist.↗ · This noise roused the giant, who rushed from his cave, crying: “You incorrigible villain, are you come here to disturb my rest?↗

increase — Everyday, meaning 1: To become bigger in number, amount or size; to grow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make something bigger or more.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A rise in number, amount or size.↗ Example: The number of pupils increased from 20 to 25.↗ · Increase 8 by 5 and you get 13.↗ · Prices increase every year.↗ · When you heat water, its temperature increases.↗ · There was an increase in rain this month.↗ · Exercise increases your heart rate.↗ · Cases of colds are on the increase.↗ · The number of carriages is continually on the increase.↗ · And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof; (Torah EXO.23.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.↗ (Torah LEV.25.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou wilt increase my greatness, and turn and comfort me.↗ (Writings PSA.71.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase.↗ (Writings PSA.107.37, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD increase you more and more, you and your children.↗ (Writings PSA.115.14, JPS 1917)↗

increased — Everyday, meaning 1: Increased means made bigger or became more.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An increased amount is a bigger one than before.↗ Example: The price increased by $3.↗ · The number of pupils increased to 30.↗ · His savings increased by 12.↗ · By how much did it increase?↗ · The temperature of the water increased as it was heated.↗ · The bus fare increased from $2 to $3.↗ · Her reading speed increased a lot this year.↗ · The rain increased in the afternoon.↗ · As the warmth increased, the Snow Man decreased.↗ · And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.↗ (Torah GEN.30.43, JPS 1917)↗ · And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.↗ (Torah GEN.7.18, JPS 1917)↗ · By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.↗ (Torah EXO.23.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.↗ (Prophets 2SA.15.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And He increased His people greatly, and made them too mighty for their adversaries.↗ (Writings PSA.105.24, JPS 1917)↗ · these mentioned by name were princes in their families; and their fathers' houses increased greatly.↗ (Writings 1CH.4.38, JPS 1917)↗

incredible — Everyday, meaning 1: So amazing that it is hard to believe: an incredible trick.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Very good: that cake was incredible!↗ Example: The magician did an incredible trick.↗ · The gods could travel incredible distances.↗ · That cake was incredible!↗

incredibly — Everyday, meaning 1: Incredibly means extremely or very, very: «It was incredibly cold».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Incredibly can mean in a way that is hard to believe: «Incredibly, the cat survived the fall».↗ Example: The test was incredibly hard.↗ · She is incredibly good at chess.↗ · It was incredibly hot at the beach.↗ · Incredibly, the little team won the cup.↗ · That roller coaster is incredibly fast.↗ · We were incredibly lucky with the weather.↗ · The puppy is incredibly cute.↗ · Incredibly, nobody was hurt in the storm.↗ · In an incredibly short time Danhasch returned, bearing the sleeping princess.↗

incredulity — Everyday, meaning 1: Not being able to believe something; great surprise and disbelief.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The look or feeling of someone who thinks «that can't be true!».↗ Example: She stared at the huge pumpkin in incredulity.↗ · His face showed pure incredulity when he heard he had won.↗ · The class listened with incredulity as the teacher said octopuses have three hearts.↗ · «You did all your homework?»↗ Mum asked with incredulity.↗ · The news was met with incredulity.↗ · «A whale is a mammal, not a fish?» he said with incredulity.↗

incredulous — Everyday, meaning 1: Not able or not willing to believe something; showing that you do not believe it: an incredulous look.↗ Example: Alice gave the Hatter an incredulous look.↗ · «A talking toad?» said the boy, incredulous.↗ · The crowd was incredulous when the small team won.↗ · She listened with an incredulous smile.↗ · Mum was incredulous that I had tidied my room.↗ · The Rat stared at Toad, incredulous.↗ · He shook his head, incredulous.↗ · But Penelope, still incredulous, determined to put him to a sure test.↗ · The following interesting comment is from Rabbi Moses Botarel:-"It was Abraham our Father-blessed be he who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the Unity.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

increment — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An increase, or something added.↗ Example: The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so-called because it forms every body which is formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so called because it forms every body which is, formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

incubate — Everyday, meaning 1: To keep eggs warm so they will hatch, as a bird does by sitting on them or as a machine does.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To keep something such as germs, or a sick premature baby, at the right warm temperature so it can grow or be looked after.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) When an illness incubates, it is growing in the body before you feel sick.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) To develop an idea or a new company slowly before it is ready.↗ Example: The hen incubates her eggs for about 21 days.↗ · Our class incubated duck eggs and four ducklings hatched.↗ · Scientists incubate bacteria in warm dishes to study them.↗ · The flu virus incubates for a day or two before you feel ill.↗ · Penguin dads incubate the egg on their feet.↗ · She incubated her idea for a book for years before writing it.↗

incubation — Everyday, meaning 1: Incubation is keeping eggs warm so they can develop and hatch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine) The incubation period is the time between catching an illness and showing the first signs of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Incubation is keeping something, like bacteria or a new business idea, in the right conditions so it can grow.↗ Example: Chicken eggs need about 21 days of incubation.↗ · During incubation the hen turns her eggs.↗ · Chickenpox has an incubation period of 10 to 21 days.↗ · The bacteria were kept at body temperature for incubation.↗ · We checked the eggs every morning during incubation.↗ · Penguin fathers do the incubation in some species.↗

incubator — Everyday, meaning 1: An incubator is a machine that keeps eggs warm so they can hatch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An incubator is a special clear cot in hospital that keeps a baby born too early or ill warm and safe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An incubator is a warm box used in labs for growing bacteria or cells.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (business) An incubator is a place or program that helps new small companies grow.↗ Example: Our class hatched six chicks in an incubator.↗ · The incubator keeps the eggs at 37.5 degrees.↗ · My baby brother was born early and spent two weeks in an incubator.↗ · The scientist put the dish of bacteria in the incubator.↗ · Don't open the incubator lid too often or the eggs will cool.↗ · The new app company started in a business incubator.↗