📖 I — The English dictionary · page 2

idealism — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The belief that ideas or spiritual things are more real or important than physical things.↗

idealized — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Made to seem perfect or better than it really is.↗

ideally — Everyday, meaning 1: Ideally means in the best possible way or the way you would most like, if everything were perfect: «Ideally, I'd like a puppy».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ideally means perfectly or exactly right for something: «The house is ideally placed near the school».↗ Example: Ideally, we should go to bed by nine.↗ · Ideally, you'd water the plants every day.↗ · The cottage is ideally placed near the beach.↗ · She is ideally suited to be team captain.↗ · Ideally, a recipe should be easy to follow.↗ · Ideally the experiment would be repeated three times.↗ · We'd ideally like sunny weather for sports day.↗ · Ideally, wash your hands for twenty seconds.↗

identical — Everyday, meaning 1: Identical means exactly the same in every way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Identical twins are two babies born together who look almost exactly alike.↗ Example: 5 identical boxes weigh 20 kg.↗ · She buys 3 identical pens for 6 dollars.↗ · The square is cut into 4 identical parts.↗ · How much does one of the identical bags weigh?↗ · The twins are identical, so it is hard to tell them apart.↗ · No two snowflakes are identical.↗ · Her answer was identical to mine.↗ · The two triangles are identical in shape and size.↗ · This is almost identical with Uncle Remus's story of how the rabbit robbed the fox of his game.↗ · It is identical in form with the letter , ("> ol the Arabic alpha- bet.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · nary in which a large number of the characters are identical with the Libyan and Tilinagh.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Klyce (f/ni- verse 1921 para. 43 f) advances the view that zero and infinity are logically identical.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

identically — Everyday, meaning 1: In exactly the same way; with no differences.↗ Example: The twins were dressed identically.↗ · Do both tests identically so it is fair.↗ · The two triangles are identically shaped.↗ · All the cupcakes were decorated identically.↗ · The robots moved identically.↗ · The two copies were printed identically.↗

identifiable — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to be recognised or named: you can tell who or what it is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Able to be picked out as separate and definite: an identifiable pattern, an identifiable cause.↗ Example: Put your name in your coat so it is easily identifiable.↗ · The bird was identifiable by its bright red chest.↗ · Don't post anything that makes you identifiable, like your school uniform.↗ · In the photo, the faces were not identifiable.↗ · There was no identifiable reason why the plant died.↗ · Fingerprints make a person identifiable.↗ · The rock was identifiable as granite from its speckled crystals.↗

identification — Everyday, meaning 1: Something that proves who you are, such as a card or passport; short form ID.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of finding out or naming what something or someone is, as in «identification of a bird».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A feeling of being like someone and understanding them.↗ Example: Please bring a form of identification.↗ · We used an identification key to name the minibeasts.↗ · The police asked for his identification.↗ · Bird identification is easier with binoculars.↗ · Dogs have a microchip for identification.↗ · My passport is my photo identification.↗ · And these are the Twelve Leaders in the Person: two hands, two legs, two kidneys, spleen, liver, gall, rumen, abomasum, craw.↗ [note 2: Identification of the latter four terms is very strange.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The key to the complete identification of the philosophy of Pythagoras with that of the Sefer Yetzira as interpreted in this thesis is the Zero.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

identified — Everyday, meaning 1: (past of «identify») Recognised or found out who or what someone or something is: «We identified the bird from its song».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showed or named what something is: «She identified the problem».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (identified with) Felt that you understand and share someone's feelings.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: When one thing is identified with another, people say they are the same, or treat them as the same.↗ Example: We identified the bird as a robin.↗ · The scientists identified a new type of frog.↗ · She quickly identified the mistake in her sum.↗ · The police identified the car from its number plate.↗ · I identified with the shy boy in the story.↗ · We identified all the right angles in the shape.↗ · The fossil was identified as a dinosaur tooth.↗ · This divinity is sometimes identified with Tyche, sometimes with Ananke.↗ · If Pythagoras was a Hebrew he should rather be identified with the high-priest Joshua son of Jehozadak.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

identifier — Everyday, meaning 1: A name, number, label or sign that shows exactly who or what something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) A name given to something in a program, such as a variable or function name, so the computer can tell them apart.↗ Example: Each library book has a barcode as its identifier.↗ · In Scratch we used «score» as the identifier for our variable.↗ · Your username is an identifier, but your password must stay secret.↗ · A unique identifier means no two things share it.↗ · The spots on its back are a good identifier for this ladybird.↗ · The program gave an error because the identifier had a space in it.↗

identify — Everyday, meaning 1: To recognise and say who or what someone or something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To find or pick out something, such as a pattern, a mistake or a problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: identify with: to feel that you understand someone or share their feelings.↗ Example: Can you identify this shape?↗ It has six sides.↗ · Identify the noun in each sentence.↗ · The police asked the boy to identify the thief.↗ · Identify the next number in the pattern 2, 4, 6, 8.↗ · Scientists identified a new kind of frog.↗ · I identify with the girl in the story because I am shy too.↗ · Try to identify the mistake in this sum.↗ · He was identified by his red cap.↗ · Afanasief (viii. p. 527) identifies the Sun's Sister with the Dawn.↗ · And Samekh-Tzadi-Resh-Shin, between the teeth and tongue, lain down and flattened.↗ [note 1: These last two words, שכובה ושטותה, are difficult to identify.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The supplemental paragraphs have been printed in modern form by Kalisch ; they identify the several letters of the Heptad more definitely with the planets, days of the week, human attributes and organs of the senses.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

identity — Everyday, meaning 1: Who someone is.↗ e.g. The police found out the thief's identity.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The things that make a person or group who they are, like their name, culture and beliefs: our school's identity.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Being exactly the same: an identity of interests.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) An equation that is true for every number, like a + b = b + a.↗ Example: The superhero kept his identity secret.↗ · You need proof of identity to open a bank account.↗ · Never share your passwords — someone could steal your identity.↗ · Music is part of our town's identity.↗ · It was a case of mistaken identity.↗ · In maths, 2 × (a + b) = 2a + 2b is an identity because it is always true.↗ · Then send him to my palace at Athens bearing these tokens of his identity."↗

ideographic — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Describing writing in which a picture or sign stands for a whole idea rather than a sound.↗ Example: The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

idiom — Everyday, meaning 1: An idiom is a group of words with a meaning you cannot guess from the separate words, like «it's raining cats and dogs» (it is raining very hard).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An idiom can also be the special way a group of people speak or write.↗ Example: «It's a piece of cake» is an idiom meaning it's easy.↗ · My Polish friend was puzzled by the idiom «raining cats and dogs».↗ · Can you draw the literal meaning of the idiom «spill the beans»?↗ · «Under the weather» is an idiom for feeling ill.↗ · Idioms are hard to translate into other languages.↗ · «Let the cat out of the bag» is an idiom about telling a secret.↗ · Another association between language, mouth, and genitals, though the connection (if any) with the SY is unclear, is found in the idiom עָרְלַת שְׂפָתַיִם ʽorlat sefatayim ‘uncircumcised of lips’, probably meaning one who is unskilled in speech, e.g. [Exodus 6:12].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

idiot — Everyday, meaning 1: (rude) An idiot is a person who does something very stupid; it is an insult.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, joking) People call themselves or a friend an idiot when they make a silly mistake.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old, now offensive) It was once a medical word for a person with a learning disability; it is not used that way now.↗ Example: I'm such an idiot — I left my lunch at home!↗ · Don't call your brother an idiot; it's unkind.↗ · He felt like an idiot when he fell in the puddle.↗ · Only an idiot would cycle without lights at night.↗ (rude)↗ · She made an idiot of herself at the party.↗ · «You idiot!» shouted the driver.↗ (rude)↗ · I was an idiot to forget the key, laughed Dad.↗ · ‘Ahem!’↗ There he stood like an idiot.↗

idiotic — Everyday, meaning 1: Very stupid or silly; making no sense.↗ Example: That was an idiotic thing to do!↗ · Jumping off the shed was an idiotic idea.↗ · Rat thought Toad's plan to drive again was idiotic.↗ · Stop asking idiotic questions and listen.↗ · The Mad Hatter gave idiotic answers to every question.↗ · It's idiotic to leave the gate open with the dog in the garden.↗

idle — Everyday, meaning 1: Not working or not being used, as in «the machines stood idle».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lazy, not wanting to work.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Without a real reason or purpose, as in «idle chatter» or «an idle threat».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) Of an engine: to run slowly while the car is not moving.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (verb) To spend time doing nothing.↗ Example: Please don't let the engine idle outside the school.↗ · The tractor sat idle in the shed.↗ · Don't be idle — help me tidy up.↗ · It was just idle chatter.↗ · We idled away the afternoon in the garden.↗ · His threat was an idle one.↗ · The computer goes to sleep when it is idle.↗ · As long as our father lived Alnaschar was very idle.↗ · But he said: 'Ye are idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say: Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.↗ (Torah EXO.5.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.↗ (Torah EXO.5.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.↗ (Writings PRO.19.15, JPS 1917)↗

idleness — Everyday, meaning 1: Idleness is being lazy and not working or doing anything useful.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Idleness is also simply not being in use or not busy: a machine's idleness.↗ Example: The grasshopper spent the summer in idleness while the ants worked.↗ · His idleness meant his homework never got done.↗ · After weeks of idleness, the factory machines were rusty.↗ · A little idleness on a holiday can be nice.↗ · «Idle hands make mischief,» Grandma says.↗ · Idleness made the long afternoon feel boring.↗ · Idleness is a great sin, and I certainly don’t like any of my friends to be idle or sluggish.↗ · By slothfulness the rafters sink in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.↗ (Writings ECC.10.18, JPS 1917)↗ · She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.↗ (Writings PRO.31.27, JPS 1917)↗

idler — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who does not like to work and wastes time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (as comparative) More lazy: «the idler he became».↗ Example: The idler lay in the sun all day.↗ · Our class idler never finished his sums.↗ · The older he grew, the idler he became.↗

idly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a lazy way, doing nothing useful.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a dreamy, careless way, without real purpose, as when thoughts drift.↗ Example: The boy sat idly on the wall.↗ · «Why are you lying there idly?» she asked.↗ · She idly picked at the grass while she thought.↗ · Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand idly by the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.16, JPS 1917)↗

idol — Everyday, meaning 1: An idol is a person who is greatly admired and loved by many people, such as a pop star or sports star.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (religion, Bible) An idol is a statue or picture that is worshipped as a god; the Bible forbids worshipping idols.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Anything treated as more important than it should be: «Money became his idol».↗ Example: My idol is a famous footballer.↗ · The singer was the idol of millions of fans.↗ · The Israelites made a golden calf as an idol.↗ · The Ten Commandments forbid worshipping idols.↗ · The explorer found a stone idol in the jungle temple.↗ · Don't make money your idol.↗ · She met her idol and got an autograph.↗ · The long, colored tapestry, on which she and her maidens had worked pictures of their idols, Odin, Thor, and Friga, was hung up.↗ · Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.↗ (Torah LEV.19.4, JPS 1917)↗ · and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them — (Torah DEU.29.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.↗ (Torah LEV.26.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And the idols shall utterly pass away.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.↗ (Prophets HOS.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they served their idols, which became a snare unto them; (Writings PSA.106.36, JPS 1917)↗