📖 I — The English dictionary · page 21

infusion — Everyday, meaning 1: A drink made by soaking leaves, flowers or fruit in hot water, like herbal tea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine) Putting a liquid such as medicine or fluid slowly into a vein through a tube (a drip).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Adding something new that brings energy or change: an infusion of money, an infusion of new ideas.↗ Example: Grandma drinks a camomile infusion before bed.↗ · We made an infusion of red cabbage to test acids and alkalis.↗ · The nurse gave him an infusion of fluids through a drip.↗ · The new players gave the team an infusion of energy.↗ · A mint infusion is made by steeping leaves in hot water.↗ · The school got an infusion of money to fix the roof.↗

ingathering — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: (old use) The ingathering is the gathering in of the crops at harvest time.↗ Example: And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.↗ (Torah EXO.34.22, JPS 1917)↗ · and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.↗ (Torah EXO.23.16, JPS 1917)↗ · After a year and days shall ye be troubled, ye confident women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.↗ (Prophets ISA.32.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The farmers held a feast after the ingathering.↗ · The ingathering of the wheat took all week.↗ · Everyone helped with the ingathering of the apples.↗ · The festival came after the ingathering.↗

ingenious — Everyday, meaning 1: Very clever and inventive, especially at finding new ways to solve problems.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of an idea or machine) Cleverly planned and made.↗ Example: What an ingenious way to fix the bike!↗ · Tegumai and Taffy found an ingenious way to write sounds.↗ · The robot was an ingenious invention.↗ · She built an ingenious trap to catch the sweet thief.↗ · The escape plan was ingenious.↗ · Leonardo da Vinci drew many ingenious machines.↗ · Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true.↗

ingeniously — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a clever way, using a smart idea that few others would think of.↗ Example: The fox ingeniously tricked the crow.↗ · She ingeniously built a raft from old barrels.↗ · He ingeniously hid the key where no one would look.↗

ingenuity — Everyday, meaning 1: Ingenuity is being clever and inventive, so you find new and smart ways to solve problems.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Ingenuity was also the name of a small helicopter flown on Mars.↗ Example: The team showed great ingenuity in building a bridge out of paper.↗ · With a bit of ingenuity, we fixed the bike with string.↗ · Robinson Crusoe survived by ingenuity.↗ · Engineers use ingenuity to solve problems.↗ · Human ingenuity put people on the Moon.↗ · Her ingenuity amazed the judges.↗ · The Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars.↗ · Use your ingenuity to escape the puzzle room.↗ · Now, most people throw them away, and that only shows what a number of things are wasted for want of a little patience and ingenuity.’↗

ingest — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To ingest is to take food, drink, medicine or another substance into your body by swallowing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To ingest information is to take it in and absorb it.↗ Example: Bleach is harmful if ingested.↗ · Animals ingest food through their mouths.↗ · The dog ingested a sock and had to see the vet.↗ · If a child ingests a battery, go to hospital straight away.↗ · Whales ingest tiny plastic bits from the sea.↗ · Plants do not ingest food; they make it from sunlight.↗

ingestion — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, science) Taking food, drink or another substance into the body through the mouth.↗ Example: Ingestion is the first step of digestion.↗ · The label warns «Harmful by ingestion».↗ · Accidental ingestion of button batteries is very dangerous.↗ · Animals take in food by ingestion.↗ · Ingestion of seawater can make you ill.↗ · Keep cleaning products away from toddlers to prevent ingestion.↗

ingratitude — Everyday, meaning 1: Not being thankful for what someone has done for you.↗ Example: Ingratitude sometimes brings its own punishment.↗ · He showed ingratitude when he forgot his friend's help.↗ · The goatherd was angry at their ingratitude.↗

ingredient — Everyday, meaning 1: An ingredient is one of the foods or things that are mixed together to make a dish, like flour and eggs in a cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An ingredient is one of the parts or qualities that make something happen or succeed (the ingredients of a good story).↗ Example: Flour, sugar, eggs and butter are the ingredients of the cake.↗ · Read the list of ingredients to check for nuts.↗ · The secret ingredient in Grandma's soup is a pinch of ginger.↗ · We weighed all the ingredients before baking.↗ · The recipe needs 200 grams of flour, so for a double batch we need 400 grams.↗ · Kindness is an important ingredient of friendship.↗ · The main ingredient on the label comes first.↗

ingress — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The act of going in, or the right to go in: a way in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (technical) The getting in of water, dust or air where it should not be: water ingress.↗ Example: The door is the only point of ingress.↗ · The phone is protected against water ingress.↗ · Ingress and egress mean entry and exit.↗ · Damp walls are often caused by water ingress.↗ · The castle had a narrow ingress guarded by soldiers.↗ · The rules allow ingress only with a pass.↗

ingrown — Everyday, meaning 1: (of a toenail or hair) Grown into the skin instead of out of it, which can hurt and become infected.↗ Example: I have an ingrown toenail, and it hurts.↗ · Cut your toenails straight across to stop them becoming ingrown.↗ · Tight shoes can cause ingrown toenails.↗ · The doctor treated my ingrown toenail.↗ · An ingrown hair made a small red bump.↗ · Soaking an ingrown toenail in warm water helps.↗

inhabit — Everyday, meaning 1: To inhabit a place means to live in it: «polar bears inhabit the Arctic».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To inhabit can also mean to be present in something: «strange creatures inhabit her stories».↗ Example: Penguins inhabit the cold seas of the southern hemisphere.↗ · Which animals inhabit a pond?↗ · People have inhabited this valley for thousands of years.↗ · The island is not inhabited.↗ · Bats inhabit the old church tower.↗ · The town has twenty thousand inhabitants.↗ · Many creatures inhabit the deep ocean.↗ · The BIRCH NYMPH is a melancholy maiden with floating hair, resembling the branches of the pale and fragile-looking tree which she inhabits.↗ · And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'↗ (Torah NUM.35.34, JPS 1917)↗ · The righteous shall never be moved; but the wicked shall not inhabit the land.↗ (Writings PRO.10.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, Thou gavest him to be food to the folk inhabiting the wilderness.↗ (Writings PSA.74.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.↗ (Prophets ISA.65.21, JPS 1917)↗

inhabitant — Everyday, meaning 1: An inhabitant is a person who lives in a place, such as a town, island or country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An animal that lives in a particular place or habitat: the inhabitants of the pond.↗ Example: The village has only three hundred inhabitants.↗ · The first inhabitants of the island were fishermen.↗ · Frogs and newts are inhabitants of the pond.↗ · The inhabitants of the town came out to watch the parade.↗ · How many inhabitants does your city have?↗ · The castle's only inhabitants now are bats.↗ · One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny.↗ · The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.↗ (Torah EXO.15.14, JPS 1917)↗ · These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, (Torah GEN.36.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.↗ (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917)↗ · So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.↗ (Prophets 1SA.23.5, JPS 1917)↗ · The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.↗ (Writings JOB.26.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Writings PSA.83.8, JPS 1917)↗

inhabited — Everyday, meaning 1: Having people or animals living in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Lived in a place, as in «Dinosaurs inhabited the land».↗ Example: Only three of the islands are inhabited.↗ · Is the old house still inhabited?↗ · Dinosaurs inhabited the Earth long ago.↗ · Penguins inhabit cold southern seas.↗ · Scientists search for other inhabited planets.↗ · The cave was inhabited by bats.↗ · It was inhabited, for the smoke curled up thickly from the chimneys.↗ · And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.↗ (Torah EXO.16.35, JPS 1917)↗ · But Judah shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.↗ (Prophets JOL.4.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it.↗ (Prophets JDG.1.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.↗ (Prophets JER.6.8, JPS 1917)↗

inhalation — Everyday, meaning 1: Breathing air, smoke or medicine into your lungs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A medicine or steam you breathe in.↗ Example: Inhalation fills your lungs with air.↗ · Smoke inhalation is very dangerous in a fire.↗ · Asthma medicine is taken by inhalation.↗ · Take a deep inhalation and hold it.↗ · During inhalation, your chest gets bigger.↗ · Steam inhalation can help a blocked nose.↗

inhale — Everyday, meaning 1: To breathe air or another gas into your lungs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To take in smoke, dust or a medicine by breathing it in.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To eat something very fast, as if breathing it in.↗ Example: Inhale slowly through your nose, then breathe out.↗ · When you inhale, your chest gets bigger.↗ · Never inhale fumes from paint or glue.↗ · Stay low in a fire so you do not inhale smoke.↗ · She used her inhaler to inhale her medicine.↗ · We inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.↗ · My brother inhaled his pizza in two minutes (informal).↗ · Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, inhaling the invigorating mountain air.↗

inhaler — Everyday, meaning 1: A small device you put in your mouth and press to breathe a medicine into your lungs, used mostly for asthma.↗ Example: Jamie takes his inhaler on every school trip.↗ · When she started wheezing, she used her blue inhaler.↗ · Shake the inhaler and breathe in slowly.↗ · Our teacher keeps spare inhalers in the office.↗ · A spacer helps the medicine from the inhaler reach the lungs.↗ · He uses a brown inhaler every morning to prevent attacks.↗ · If an inhaler doesn't help, call for help straight away.↗ · Never use someone else's inhaler.↗

inherent — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Being a natural, basic part of something, so it cannot be taken away: an inherent danger, an inherent quality.↗ Example: There is an inherent danger in playing near deep water.↗ · Curiosity is inherent in young children.↗ · Every sport has some inherent risk.↗ · Kindness seemed inherent in her nature.↗ · Glass is inherently fragile.↗ · The plan had an inherent problem: it cost too much.↗

inherently — Everyday, meaning 1: As a basic, natural part of something that cannot be removed; by its very nature.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) In itself, not because of something added from outside: inherently dangerous.↗ Example: Fire is inherently dangerous, so treat it with care.↗ · Climbing is inherently risky, which is why we use ropes.↗ · Nobody is inherently bad; people can learn and change.↗ · Some games are inherently unfair because of their rules.↗ · Mistakes aren't inherently bad; they help us learn.↗ · Glass is inherently fragile.↗

inherit — Everyday, meaning 1: To inherit money, a house or things is to receive them from someone after they die.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To inherit a feature is to get it from your parents through your genes: inherit blue eyes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To inherit a problem or job is to take it over from someone before you.↗ Example: She inherited her grandmother's ring.↗ · I inherited my dad's curly hair.↗ · Children inherit genes from both parents.↗ · In the story, the miller's son inherited only a cat.↗ · The new coach inherited a losing team.↗ · Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.↗ · My father is old, and if he dies I shall inherit his goods.’↗ · And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'↗ (Torah GEN.15.8, 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)↗ · Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.↗ (Torah DEU.16.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.↗ (Writings PSA.37.29, JPS 1917)↗ · His soul shall abide in prosperity; and his seed shall inherit the land.↗ (Writings PSA.25.13, JPS 1917)↗ · The wise shall inherit honour; but as for the fools, they carry away shame.↗ (Writings PRO.3.35, JPS 1917)↗

inheritance — Everyday, meaning 1: An inheritance is money, property or things you receive from someone who has died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Inheritance is the passing of features from parents to children through genes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something passed down from the past: our cultural inheritance.↗ Example: He spent his inheritance on a farm.↗ · The prodigal son asked for his inheritance early.↗ · Inheritance explains why you look like your parents.↗ · The house was her inheritance from her uncle.↗ · Folk songs are part of our inheritance.↗ · The family argued over the inheritance.↗ · His father had died, and he was lord over his whole inheritance.↗ · Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.↗ (Torah DEU.33.4, JPS 1917)↗ · According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'↗ (Torah NUM.26.56, JPS 1917)↗ · And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.↗ (Torah NUM.27.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.↗ (Prophets ISA.63.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.↗ (Writings LAM.5.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.↗ (Prophets JOS.16.4, JPS 1917)↗