📖 I — The English dictionary · page 16

indian — Everyday, meaning 1: From or to do with India, a large country in South Asia.↗ e.g. Indian food, Indian languages.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An Indian is a person from India.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Indian Ocean lies south of India, between Africa and Australia.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Older word for the native peoples of the Americas; today "Native American", "First Nations" or the name of the people is preferred.↗ Example: My friend's family is Indian.↗ · We had Indian food for dinner.↗ · The Indian Ocean is warm.↗ · Hindi is one of the Indian languages.↗ · Columbus thought he had reached India.↗ · In Canada we say First Nations for the original peoples.↗ · Various sources such as Egyptian, Indian, Greek, Phoenician, Hebrew, etc., have been advanced as the origin of the Pythagorean philosophy.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Astle, The Origin and Progress of Writing, London 1784, p. 41: rhu!↗ ', IX, 354, 439).↗ <)r he could have meant Jewish astronomers like JIashallah, who was called by Abraham ibn Eira an Indian sage (mr; Din) (see M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

indicate — Everyday, meaning 1: To show or point to something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be a sign that something is true or likely.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) To show which way you will turn in a car by using the lights.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) To state briefly.↗ Example: The arrow indicates which way to go.↗ · Dark clouds indicate that rain is coming.↗ · The thermometer indicates 25 degrees.↗ · The driver indicated left and turned.↗ · Please indicate your answer with a tick.↗ · The graph indicates that sales went up.↗ · A red light indicates that the oven is hot.↗ · His Roman name, Vulcan, would seem to indicate a connection with the first great metal-working artificer of Biblical history, Tubal-Cain.↗ · Hence, the vowel-letters vyx were originally indicated by tlie four (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Two, three, or four strokes are so combined as to indicate the (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · This passage also indicates that Joseph ben Uziel wrote the Sefer Yetzirah.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

indication — Everyday, meaning 1: A sign that shows something is true or will happen.↗ e.g. Dark clouds are an indication of rain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A suggestion or hint.↗ e.g. She gave no indication that she was upset.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A reading shown on a measuring instrument.↗ Example: Dark clouds are an indication of rain.↗ · He gave no indication that he was angry.↗ · A fever is an indication of infection.↗ · Can you give us an indication of the cost?↗ · Smoke is an indication of fire.↗ · The colour change is an indication that the reaction has happened.↗ · A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind.↗

indicative — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) If something is indicative of something else, it shows or suggests it: «A high temperature is indicative of an infection».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) The indicative is the ordinary form of a verb used for facts and questions, like «She runs» or «Did it rain?», as opposed to commands or wishes.↗ Example: Dark clouds are often indicative of rain.↗ · (formal) His smile was indicative of his good mood.↗ · Yellow leaves can be indicative of a thirsty plant.↗ · (formal) The results are indicative of a pattern.↗ · In French we learned the present indicative.↗ · «I walk» is in the indicative mood.↗ · The indicative is used to state facts.↗ · Missing homework is indicative of a busy week, the teacher joked.↗ · In later times she appears blindfolded, and stands on a ball or wheel, indicative of the fickleness and ever-revolving {148} changes of fortune.↗

indicator — Everyday, meaning 1: An indicator is something that shows or points to what is happening or what is true, like a sign or measurement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: On a car or bike, an indicator is a flashing light that shows which way the vehicle will turn (a «blinker» or «turn signal» in the US).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science, an indicator is a substance that changes colour to show whether something is an acid or an alkali.↗ Example: Litmus paper is an indicator that turns red in acid.↗ · Red cabbage juice is an indicator: it changes colour in vinegar.↗ · The car's left indicator was flashing.↗ · Dad put his indicator on before turning right.↗ · Dark clouds are an indicator of rain.↗ · The fuel indicator showed the tank was nearly empty.↗

indictment — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A formal written charge accusing someone of a wrong.↗ Example: Oh that I had one to hear me! — Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me — and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!↗ (Writings JOB.31.35, JPS 1917)↗

indifference — Everyday, meaning 1: Indifference is not caring or not being interested in something or someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A matter of indifference is something that makes no difference to you either way.↗ Example: The cat looked at the new toy with complete indifference.↗ · His indifference to his homework worried his teacher.↗ · She hid her hurt behind a mask of indifference.↗ · We should not show indifference when someone is being bullied.↗ · Which seat I sit in is a matter of indifference to me.↗ · The crowd's indifference made the singer sad.↗ · The princess took the note and opened it with languid indifference.↗

indifferent — Everyday, meaning 1: If you are indifferent to something, you do not care about it or are not interested in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not very good; only ordinary or rather poor: an indifferent meal.↗ Example: The cat was indifferent to the dog barking outside.↗ · Tom seemed indifferent to winning or losing.↗ · How can you be indifferent when your friend is sad?↗ · The hotel was lovely, but the food was indifferent.↗ · He is an indifferent swimmer but a great runner.↗ · She answered in an indifferent voice.↗ · Most people were indifferent to the new rule.↗ · ‘If he did hear me,’ she said, ‘could he remain so cruelly indifferent?↗

indigenous — Everyday, meaning 1: Indigenous people are the first people known to live in a place, and their descendants, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia, Māori in New Zealand, First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada, and Native Americans in the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) An indigenous plant or animal is one that grows or lives naturally in a place, rather than being brought there by people: «the kangaroo is indigenous to Australia».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An indigenous idea, custom or story is one that began in a particular place rather than being brought there from somewhere else.↗ Example: Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.↗ · Our school begins assemblies by thanking the indigenous people of the land.↗ · Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia.↗ · Many indigenous languages are being taught again to children.↗ · First Nations, Inuit and Métis are indigenous peoples of Canada.↗ · Rabbits are not indigenous to Australia; they were brought by settlers.↗ · We read indigenous stories about how the land was made.↗ · The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it is not indigenous to the British Isles, but an Oriental importation.↗

indigestible — Everyday, meaning 1: Food that is hard or impossible for the stomach to break down.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Hard to understand or accept: an indigestible textbook.↗ Example: Plastic is indigestible, so animals that eat it get ill.↗ · Fibre is indigestible but helps food move through your gut.↗ · The stew was heavy and indigestible.↗ · That long report was indigestible.↗ · Cows can digest grass that is indigestible to humans.↗ · Cherry stones are indigestible.↗ · It was very heavy and indigestible, but I managed to nibble it up at last.↗

indigestion — Everyday, meaning 1: A pain or uneasy feeling in the stomach after eating, especially too much or too fast.↗ Example: Eating too fast gave him indigestion.↗ · Crows never have indigestion, said the Pigeon.↗ · Too many sweets can cause indigestion.↗

indignant — Everyday, meaning 1: Angry because something is unfair or rude: an indignant reply.↗ Example: She was indignant when they blamed her.↗ · The dog looked indignant at being bathed.↗ · Everyone was indignant at the cheat.↗

indignantly — Everyday, meaning 1: In an angry, offended way, because you think something is unfair or insulting.↗ Example: «I'm not a serpent!» said Alice indignantly.↗ · «I didn't do it!»↗ Tom replied indignantly.↗ · Toad indignantly denied that he had stolen the car.↗ · The cat looked indignantly at the dog in its basket.↗ · She indignantly pointed out that it was her turn.↗ · «Who are you calling silly?» asked the Mock Turtle indignantly.↗ · "The Wolf!" exclaimed the Sheep indignantly.↗

indignation — Everyday, meaning 1: Strong anger at something that is unfair, rude or wrong.↗ Example: He shouted in indignation.↗ · To her indignation, the teacher gave the prize to someone else.↗ · Their indignation grew when the bus left without them.↗ · and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'. — (Torah DEU.29.28, JPS 1917)↗ · They are called Double, because each letter presents a contrast or permutation; thus Life and Death; Peace and War (Evil); Wisdom and Folly; Riches and Poverty; Grace and Indignation; Fertility and Solitude (Desolation); Power and Servitude.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Who can stand before His indignation?↗ (Prophets NAM.1.6, JPS 1917)↗ · God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation every day: (Writings PSA.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou marchest through the earth in indignation, Thou threshest the nations in anger.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗

indignity — Everyday, meaning 1: Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in front of others.↗ Example: It was an indignity to be laughed at in front of everyone.↗ · The prince wanted to save himself from that indignity.↗ · Being carried off like a sack was a terrible indignity.↗

indigo — Everyday, meaning 1: A deep blue-purple colour, one of the seven colours named in the rainbow (between blue and violet).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dark blue dye, first made from a plant, used for colouring cloth such as jeans.↗ Example: Indigo comes between blue and violet in the rainbow.↗ · Her jeans were dyed indigo.↗ · The night sky turned deep indigo.↗ · People once grew the indigo plant to make blue dye.↗ · I painted the sea indigo.↗ · How many colours are in the rainbow?↗ Seven, including indigo.↗

indirect — Everyday, meaning 1: Not going straight: an indirect route.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not said openly or plainly: an indirect answer.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Happening as a side result rather than directly: an indirect cause.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (grammar) Indirect speech reports what someone said without their exact words; an indirect object receives the thing given (She gave me a book: me).↗ Example: We took an indirect route through the park.↗ · He gave an indirect answer and didn't say yes or no.↗ · Direct speech: Tom said, I am hungry.↗ Indirect speech: Tom said he was hungry.↗ · In She gave me a pen, me is the indirect object.↗ · Some plants like indirect sunlight.↗ · Smoking is an indirect cause of many illnesses.↗

indirectly — Everyday, meaning 1: Not straight from the source; by way of someone or something else.↗ e.g. I heard the news indirectly.↗ Example: I heard the news indirectly, from my cousin.↗ · The advice came indirectly through a friend.↗ · The sun warms us indirectly through the air.↗

indiscriminately — Everyday, meaning 1: Without choosing carefully; at random or in a careless way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Without caring who gets hurt or affected: bombs that kill indiscriminately.↗ Example: The storm knocked down trees indiscriminately.↗ · Using antibiotics indiscriminately helps germs become resistant.↗ · The goat ate everything indiscriminately, even my socks.↗ · International law forbids attacks that harm civilians indiscriminately.↗ · He copied answers indiscriminately and got them all wrong.↗ · Don't click on links indiscriminately; some are scams.↗

indispensable — Everyday, meaning 1: Indispensable means so important or useful that you cannot manage without it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An indispensable person is someone a team or group really needs.↗ Example: Water is indispensable to life.↗ · A map is indispensable on a long walk.↗ · Our goalkeeper is indispensable to the team.↗ · Glasses are indispensable for reading if you need them.↗ · A good dictionary is indispensable for learning a language.↗ · The nurse was indispensable during the emergency.↗ · Sunscreen is indispensable on a sunny beach.↗ · Teamwork is indispensable for winning.↗ · Hephaestus appears to have been an indispensable member of the Olympic Assembly, where he plays the part of smith, armourer, chariot-builder, &c.↗

indisposed — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, euphemism) Slightly ill, so not able to come or work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Not willing to do something, as in «indisposed to help».↗ Example: The head teacher is indisposed today, so the deputy will take assembly.↗ · The opera singer was indisposed, and her understudy sang instead.↗ · «Mr Toad is indisposed and cannot see visitors,» said the butler.↗ · Grandma felt indisposed after the long journey.↗ · He was indisposed to lend us his bike.↗ · The captain was indisposed with a cold.↗

indisposition — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A slight illness, like a cold or upset stomach, that stops you doing something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Unwillingness to do something.↗ Example: Due to a slight indisposition, the actor could not perform tonight.↗ · The teacher's absence was explained as a brief indisposition.↗ · In the old novel, the duchess suffered an indisposition and stayed in bed.↗ · His indisposition to help was obvious.↗ · The head teacher's indisposition meant the assembly was cancelled.↗ · Owing to indisposition, Lady Mary sent her apologies.↗