📖 I — The English dictionary · page 28

intact — Everyday, meaning 1: Whole and not damaged or broken; with nothing missing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Still the same as before, not harmed or changed (her confidence was intact).↗ Example: The egg was still intact after the fall.↗ · The parcel arrived intact, with nothing broken.↗ · After the storm, our tent stayed intact.↗ · The old bridge is still intact after hundreds of floods.↗ · Keep the seal intact until you buy the jar.↗ · His good mood remained intact all day.↗ · Only one vase came out of the box intact.↗ · These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

intake — Everyday, meaning 1: Intake is the amount of something you take into your body, like food, water or air.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An intake is the group of new people who join a school, college, job or the army at one time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An intake is a place or opening where water, air or fuel goes into a pipe or machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An intake of breath is a quick breath in, from surprise or shock.↗ Example: Try to cut down your sugar intake.↗ · Your water intake should go up when it's hot.↗ · This year's intake at our school is 60 children.↗ · There was a sharp intake of breath when the vase fell.↗ · The engine's air intake was blocked.↗ · The recommended daily intake of salt is less than 6 grams for adults.↗

intangible — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Not able to be touched; something you cannot hold, like air or an idea.↗ Example: He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, colossal pillars from intangible air.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · "He formed existence out of void, something out of nothing, and He hewed large stones out of- intangible air, thus, twenty- two in number, one in sj)irit."'↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

integer — Everyday, meaning 1: (maths) A whole number that can be positive, negative or zero, with no fraction or decimal part: …↗ −3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3 ….↗ Example: 5, 0 and −7 are all integers.↗ · 3.5 is not an integer.↗ · Round 4.6 to the nearest integer: the answer is 5.↗ · Find two consecutive integers that add up to 15: 7 and 8.↗ · The temperature was −4, a negative integer.↗ · List the integers between −2 and 2: −1, 0, 1.↗

integral — Everyday, meaning 1: Integral means necessary and important as a part of a whole: you cannot have the whole without it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Integral also means built in, made as one piece with something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths, advanced) An integral is a calculation in calculus that finds things like the area under a curve.↗ Example: Practice is an integral part of learning music.↗ · She is an integral member of the choir.↗ · The bike has an integral lock.↗ · Water is integral to life.↗ · In calculus, an integral finds the area under a curve.↗ · Kindness is integral to our school values.↗

integrity — Everyday, meaning 1: Being honest and doing what is right even when nobody is watching.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being whole and strong, not broken: «the integrity of the bridge».↗ Example: She showed integrity when she owned up to her mistake.↗ · Integrity means doing the right thing when no one is watching.↗ · A person of integrity does not cheat in tests.↗ · He handed in the lost wallet because he has integrity.↗ · The engineers checked the integrity of the bridge.↗ · Cheating in games breaks your integrity.↗ · But Hermes, astute as he was dishonest, determined to test the shepherd's integrity.↗ · Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.↗ (Writings PSA.25.21, JPS 1917)↗ · I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.↗ (Writings PSA.101.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity — (Writings JOB.31.6, JPS 1917)↗

integument — Everyday, meaning 1: (biology) A tough outer layer or covering of an animal or plant, such as skin, a shell, a husk or the coat of a seed.↗ Example: Skin is the integument of the human body.↗ · A seed's integument protects the baby plant inside.↗ · The beetle's integument is hard and shiny.↗ · Snakes shed their integument as they grow.↗ · The integumentary system includes skin, hair and nails.↗ · The bark is the integument of the tree.↗

intellect — Everyday, meaning 1: Intellect is the power of the mind to think, understand and reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Intellect can mean a clever person with a great mind.↗ Example: She has a sharp intellect and solves puzzles fast.↗ · Reading builds the intellect.↗ · The professor was a man of great intellect.↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendor of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelligence, and it is so called bemuse by it is created the Intellect of all created beings under the highest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

intellectual — Everyday, meaning 1: Intellectual means about thinking, reasoning and understanding: «intellectual skills».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An intellectual is a person who thinks deeply and is interested in ideas, books and learning.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Interested in serious ideas: «an intellectual film».↗ Example: Chess is a great intellectual challenge.↗ · Reading helps your intellectual growth.↗ · Her grandfather was a famous intellectual.↗ · Copying a song breaks intellectual property rules.↗ · The puzzle tested our intellectual skills.↗ · They had an intellectual conversation about stars.↗ · The manner in which these tales are told, however, may often be taken as a test of the intellectual capacity of their tellers.↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendor of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

intellectually — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that uses or relates to thinking, reasoning and understanding.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the mind, rather than in the body or the feelings.↗ Example: Chess is intellectually challenging.↗ · She is intellectually curious and always asks questions.↗ · The project was fun and intellectually demanding.↗ · Intellectually, he knew the dog was safe, but he still felt scared.↗ · Reading widely helps you grow intellectually.↗ · The debate was intellectually honest and fair.↗

intelligence — Everyday, meaning 1: Intelligence is the ability to learn, understand and think clearly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Secret information gathered about enemies or dangers, and the people who gather it: «military intelligence».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In computers, artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine's ability to do tasks that seem to need thinking.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Intelligence can also mean news or information about something.↗ Example: Dolphins are known for their intelligence.↗ · Use your intelligence to solve the riddle.↗ · Artificial intelligence can help doctors.↗ · The spies gathered intelligence about the plan.↗ · Octopuses show amazing intelligence.↗ · There are many kinds of intelligence, like music and sport skills.↗ · Nobody knew; nobody could give any intelligence.↗ · The Twenty-third Path is the Stable Intelligence, (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Thirty-first Path is the Perpetual Intelligence; and why is it so called?↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Thirty-first Path is the Perpetual Intelligence ; but why is it so-called ?↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that is of a distorted understanding shall be despised.↗ (Writings PRO.12.8, JPS 1917)↗

intelligent — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to learn, understand and think well and quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing good thinking (an intelligent answer, an intelligent choice).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Of a machine or system: able to act in a smart way (intelligent software).↗ Example: Crows are intelligent birds that can use tools.↗ · That was an intelligent question, Maya.↗ · My dog is so intelligent she can open the gate.↗ · Scientists search for intelligent life in space.↗ · Make an intelligent choice and wear a helmet.↗ · Being intelligent is not the same as being kind.↗ · The robot uses intelligent software to avoid walls.↗ · ‘Do not fear,’ he answered; ‘she is too clever and intelligent to lose her way.↗ · 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

intelligible — Everyday, meaning 1: Clear enough to be understood: an intelligible answer, intelligible speech.↗ Example: His handwriting was hardly intelligible.↗ · Speak slowly so your speech is intelligible.↗ · The radio message was crackly but intelligible.↗ · The teacher made the hard idea intelligible to everyone.↗ · After the storm the phone line was barely intelligible.↗ · Write your answer in clear, intelligible sentences.↗ · But at last he did say something intelligible, and this is what he said.↗

intend — Everyday, meaning 1: To plan or mean to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mean something to be for a certain person or use (this gift is intended for you).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To mean a certain meaning by your words.↗ Example: I intend to read the whole book this week.↗ · She did not intend to break the window; it was an accident.↗ · This ladder is intended for adults only.↗ · The plan worked as intended.↗ · What did you intend by that remark?↗ · We intended to go to the beach, but it rained.↗ · The money is intended for new library books.↗ · “The royal captain intends to visit you.”↗

intended — Everyday, meaning 1: Intended means planned or meant: «I intended to call you».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Meant for a particular person or use: «The film is intended for children».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old-fashioned) Someone's intended is the person they plan to marry.↗ Example: I intended to finish my homework, but I fell asleep.↗ · This toy is intended for children over three.↗ · The joke was not intended to hurt anyone.↗ · The plan worked as intended.↗ · The letter was intended for my sister.↗ · The bridge was intended to last a long time.↗ · I intended to get a more perfect specimen.↗ · What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · If the sphere be rotated forward, good is implied, if in a retrograde manner evil is intended.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The expression בְּלִי[]מָה beli[-]mah can be understood as either one word or two, with both readings being plausible and perhaps intended, and manuscripts commonly varying between the one- and two-word renditions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.↗ (Writings PSA.21.12, JPS 1917)↗

intense — Everyday, meaning 1: Very strong or extreme, as in intense heat, intense pain or intense colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having or showing very strong feelings, or being very serious.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Needing great effort, as in «intense training».↗ Example: The intense heat made the road melt.↗ · Don't look at intense light like the Sun.↗ · The final minutes of the game were intense.↗ · She gave me an intense stare.↗ · The training was intense, so we were tired.↗ · The red paint was an intense colour.↗ · He is very intense about his football.↗ · When Demeter became conscious of her loss her grief was intense, and she refused to be comforted.↗

intensely — Everyday, meaning 1: Intensely means very strongly, deeply or extremely.↗ Example: The sun was intensely hot at noon.↗ · He stared intensely at the chessboard.↗ · She trained intensely for the race.↗ · The cheese smelled intensely of garlic.↗ · They argued intensely about the rules.↗ · The film was intensely scary.↗ · So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze.↗

intensified — Everyday, meaning 1: Intensified means became stronger, bigger or more extreme: «The storm intensified overnight».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Intensified means made stronger on purpose: «The police intensified their search».↗ Example: The rain intensified and we ran inside.↗ · The hurricane intensified over the warm sea.↗ · The search for the missing dog intensified.↗ · The smell intensified as we got closer to the bin.↗ · The team intensified their training before the final.↗ · As the music intensified, everyone started dancing.↗ · The heat intensified during the afternoon.↗ · Worry intensified when the bus was late.↗

intensify — Everyday, meaning 1: To intensify means to become stronger, greater or more extreme.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To intensify something means to make it stronger or more extreme.↗ Example: The storm intensified overnight.↗ · The smell of smoke intensified as we got closer.↗ · The police intensified their search for the missing dog.↗ · The music intensified as the hero reached the door.↗ · Adding salt can intensify the flavour of chocolate.↗ · His fear intensified when the lights went out.↗

intensifying — Everyday, meaning 1: Becoming stronger, greater or more extreme: an intensifying storm.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Making something stronger: intensifying the colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (grammar) An intensifying word (an intensifier) makes another word stronger, like «very», «really», «so», «totally».↗ Example: The hurricane is intensifying as it moves over warm water.↗ · The rain was intensifying, so we ran for shelter.↗ · Adding more salt kept intensifying the flavour.↗ · «Very» is an intensifying word.↗ · The heat was intensifying through the afternoon.↗ · Competition was intensifying in the final round.↗