📖 I — The English dictionary · page 17

indistinct — Everyday, meaning 1: Not clear or sharp; hard to see, hear or remember clearly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Blurred or faint: indistinct shapes in the fog.↗ Example: Indistinct voices came from behind the door.↗ · An indistinct shape moved in the fog.↗ · Turn the knob until the cell is no longer indistinct under the microscope.↗ · My memory of being a baby is very indistinct.↗ · He spoke so quietly his words were indistinct.↗ · The old writing on the stone was indistinct.↗ · Then the voice melted again into the indistinct murmur of the rustling leaves, and died gradually away.↗

indistinguishable — Everyday, meaning 1: So alike that you cannot tell them apart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: So faint or unclear that you cannot pick it out or recognise it, for example a shape in fog.↗ Example: The twins are indistinguishable until one of them smiles.↗ · This fake note is almost indistinguishable from a real one.↗ · In the fog, the hills were indistinguishable from the sky.↗ · The two salts are indistinguishable by sight, so we tested them with water.↗ · Some mushrooms that can kill you are nearly indistinguishable from safe ones, so never pick wild mushrooms to eat.↗ · Her copy of the painting was indistinguishable from the original.↗ · In the problem, the five red balls are indistinguishable, so swapping them does not make a new arrangement.↗ · His voice on the phone was indistinguishable from his dad's.↗

individual — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Single and separate; for one person or thing only.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) One person, thought of separately from a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Different from others; special to one person.↗ Example: The individual price of a cake is 1 dollar.↗ · Each individual pupil gets a certificate.↗ · She has a very individual style.↗ · We did individual projects, not group work.↗ · The yoghurts come in individual pots.↗ · Every individual matters.↗ · Individual players can win prizes too.↗ · They had not taken a hundred steps when they saw two rough-looking individuals sitting on a stone begging for alms.↗ · It is the Consummation of the Truth of individual spiritual things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Notwithstanding the decay of the individual, the genus is produced by the antithesis of man and wife.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

individually — Everyday, meaning 1: One at a time, separately, not as a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way that fits each single person or thing: each cake was individually decorated.↗ Example: The teacher marked each test individually.↗ · First work individually, then compare answers with your partner.↗ · The chocolates are individually wrapped.↗ · The coach spoke to each player individually after the match.↗ · The pens cost 50p individually or £2 for a pack of five.↗ · Each costume was individually made by hand.↗ · Individually, the ants are tiny, but together they are strong.↗ · The meaning for the SY is: God did not make things by themselves, individually, but rather, He made all things in relationship to all other things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

indivisible — Everyday, meaning 1: Not able to be divided or separated into parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) Not able to be divided exactly by a certain number without a remainder: 7 is indivisible by 2.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) So closely joined that they act as one: «one nation… indivisible» in the US Pledge of Allegiance.↗ Example: Seven is indivisible by two; there is always one left over.↗ · A prime number is indivisible except by one and itself.↗ · The friends were indivisible; you never saw one without the other.↗ · People once thought atoms were indivisible, but they have smaller parts.↗ · «One nation, indivisible» is a line from the US Pledge of Allegiance.↗ · Is 15 indivisible by 4?↗ Yes, because 15 ÷ 4 leaves a remainder of 3.↗ · 13) See above Note 1, God, idea and word are indivisible.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

indoctrination — Everyday, meaning 1: Indoctrination is teaching someone to accept ideas or beliefs without questioning them or thinking for themselves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Training people to believe one side only, often by a group or government.↗ Example: The book describes the indoctrination of children in a strict regime.↗ · Good teaching encourages questions, not indoctrination.↗ · Some groups use indoctrination to control their members.↗ · She escaped long indoctrination and learned to think freely.↗ · Propaganda is a tool of indoctrination.↗ · The film warns about online indoctrination.↗

indolence — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Laziness; not wanting to work or make an effort.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A relaxed, slow, lazy state, as on a hot day.↗ Example: The king lived a life of indolence while his people worked.↗ · His indolence meant the garden was full of weeds.↗ · On the hot afternoon the cats lay in happy indolence.↗ · The teacher blamed his poor marks on indolence.↗ · The story warned against indolence and greed.↗ · After a busy term, we enjoyed a week of indolence on the beach.↗

indonesian — Everyday, meaning 1: From or about Indonesia, a large country in Southeast Asia made of thousands of islands.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person from Indonesia.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), the national language of Indonesia.↗ Example: Indonesian food often has rice, peanut sauce and spices.↗ · My friend's mum is Indonesian and comes from Bali.↗ · The Indonesian islands include Java, Sumatra and Borneo's southern part.↗ · Komodo dragons live on a few Indonesian islands.↗ · She is learning to say hello in Indonesian: selamat pagi means good morning.↗ · Many Indonesian volcanoes are still active.↗

indoor — Everyday, meaning 1: Indoor means happening, used or found inside a building, not outside.↗ Example: We had indoor play because it was raining.↗ · The school has an indoor swimming pool.↗ · Mum keeps indoor plants on the windowsill.↗ · Indoor football is played on a smaller pitch.↗ · Bring your indoor shoes for the gym.↗ · Cats that live indoors are called indoor cats.↗ · He had once been an indoor dog, and lay by the fire, and he had been hoarse ever since.↗

indoors — Everyday, meaning 1: Indoors means inside a building, not outside.↗ Example: It's raining, so let's play indoors.↗ · Go indoors if you hear thunder.↗ · Keep the cat indoors on Bonfire Night.↗ · We had PE indoors because the field was wet.↗ · Never light a barbecue indoors.↗ · My grandma's tomatoes grow indoors in winter.↗ · We spent too long indoors; let's go to the park.↗ · The swimming pool is indoors, so we can swim all year.↗ · Whereupon he went off indoors, whistling cheerfully.↗

indri — Everyday, meaning 1: An indri is the largest kind of lemur, a black-and-white tree-living animal found only in the rainforests of Madagascar, famous for its loud singing calls.↗ Example: The indri lives only in Madagascar.↗ · Indris sing loud songs that echo through the forest.↗ · The indri is the biggest living lemur.↗ · Indris leap from tree to tree.↗ · Indris are critically endangered.↗ · An indri has a very short tail, unlike other lemurs.↗

induce — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To cause something to happen, as in «Some medicines induce sleep».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To persuade or tempt someone to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) To start the birth of a baby with medicine.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) To produce electricity or magnetism without touching, as in an induced current.↗ Example: Warm milk may induce sleep.↗ · Nothing would induce me to jump off that wall.↗ · The doctor decided to induce the baby.↗ · Moving a magnet through a coil induces a current.↗ · The bright lights induced a headache.↗ · They offered prizes to induce people to recycle.↗ · Perhaps you will be able to induce her to be reasonable.’↗

inducement — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Something that persuades or encourages someone to do something, such as a reward or a bribe.↗ Example: Free pizza was an inducement to come to the meeting.↗ · The shop offered a discount as an inducement to buy.↗ · Offering an inducement to a referee is against the rules.↗ · There was little inducement to stay in the rain.↗ · Prizes are an inducement to read more books.↗ · He refused all inducements to change his vote.↗

induction — Everyday, meaning 1: An induction is a meeting or short course that introduces new people to a job, school or club.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, induction is the making of electricity or magnetism in an object by moving a magnet or another current near it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In logic and maths, induction is reaching a general rule from many examples.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In medicine, induction means starting something, like the birth of a baby, with help.↗ Example: New pupils have an induction day before they start school.↗ · An induction hob heats the pan using magnetism.↗ · A generator makes electricity by induction.↗ · My mum had a week of induction at her new job.↗ · Moving a magnet through a coil of wire makes a current by induction.↗ · The new members got an induction to the swimming club.↗

indulge — Everyday, meaning 1: To let yourself do or have something you enjoy, especially as a treat: indulge in chocolate.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To let someone have whatever they want, even when it's not good for them: to indulge a child.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To allow and go along with someone's interest or wish: indulge his curiosity.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church, history) An «indulgence» in the medieval Catholic Church was a release from punishment for sin; selling them was one cause of the Reformation.↗ Example: On my birthday I indulged in a huge slice of cake.↗ · Grandma indulges us with sweets when we visit.↗ · Go on, indulge yourself — you've earned it.↗ · Mum indulged my curiosity and let me take the clock apart.↗ · Don't indulge the puppy every time it begs.↗ · Martin Luther protested against the selling of indulgences.↗ · Rudy, as usual, had plenty of courage, and indulged in pleasant thoughts of the favorable answer he should receive that evening.↗ · Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that indulge it shall eat the fruit thereof.↗ (Writings PRO.18.21, JPS 1917)↗

indulgence — Everyday, meaning 1: Indulgence is letting someone have what they want, being kind and not strict with them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An indulgence is a treat or something nice you allow yourself.↗ Example: The old king showed his son great indulgence.↗ · Sweets are a rare indulgence in our house.↗ · The animal was kept and treated with every indulgence.↗ · A long bath is my favourite indulgence.↗ · I therefore hope that the candid reader will consider the great difficulties I had to overcome in this still unbeaten way of the ancient Jewish spiritual region, and will receive with indulgence this new contribution to archaeological knowledge.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

indulgent — Everyday, meaning 1: Letting someone have or do what they want, even when it might not be good for them; too kind and not strict: indulgent parents.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Treating yourself to something pleasant: an indulgent chocolate cake.↗ Example: Her indulgent grandparents let her stay up late.↗ · The Rat smiled in an indulgent way at Mole's excitement.↗ · An indulgent teacher might let the class skip homework.↗ · We had an indulgent breakfast of pancakes and cream.↗ · Toad's friends had been too indulgent with him.↗ · The king was indulgent to his spoiled son.↗

industrial — Everyday, meaning 1: Industrial means to do with factories, making goods, and industry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An industrial place has lots of factories.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Industrial also describes things that are strong and large enough for factory use, like industrial machines.↗ Example: The Industrial Revolution started in Britain.↗ · Smoke rose from the industrial chimneys.↗ · Dad works on an industrial estate.↗ · Industrial waste polluted the river.↗ · They used an industrial vacuum to clean the hall.↗ · Manchester was a great industrial city.↗

industrialisation — Everyday, meaning 1: The change of a country or area from farming and handwork to factories, machines and big industry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) In particular the Industrial Revolution in Britain from about 1760, which then spread to Europe, North America and the world.↗ Example: Industrialisation changed Britain from farms to factories.↗ · During industrialisation, many children worked long hours in mills.↗ · Industrialisation made cities grow very fast.↗ · Smoke from industrialisation polluted the air.↗ · Railways spread across the country during industrialisation.↗ · China went through rapid industrialisation in recent decades.↗

industrious — Everyday, meaning 1: Hard-working; always busy and putting in steady effort.↗ Example: Ants are industrious little creatures.↗ · Our teacher wrote that I am an industrious pupil.↗ · The industrious beavers built a dam across the stream.↗ · Mole was industrious, spring-cleaning his little home.↗ · The industrious baker was up at four every morning.↗ · The fable of the ant and the grasshopper praises the industrious ant.↗ · And she was industrious and thoughtful.↗ · And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of Joseph.↗ (Prophets 1KI.11.28, JPS 1917)↗

industriously — Everyday, meaning 1: Industriously means working hard, steadily and with great effort, without stopping to rest.↗ Example: The dog dug industriously with his paws.↗ · She spun industriously all evening.↗ · Ben worked industriously on his sums.↗ · The ants carried food industriously to the nest.↗

industry — Everyday, meaning 1: The work of making goods in factories: heavy industry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An industry is all the businesses that make or do one kind of thing: the car industry, the tourist industry.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Hard work: a person of great industry.↗ Example: The car industry employs thousands of people.↗ · Tourism is a big industry in Ireland.↗ · The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the 1700s.↗ · Many towns grew up around coal and steel industry.↗ · The bees work with great industry.↗ · My aunt works in the music industry.↗ · So he praised the prince for his industry and cleverness, and made him his steward at once.↗