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intensity — Everyday, meaning 1: How strong or extreme something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The amount of light, sound, heat or energy, as in light intensity.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Strong feeling or seriousness.↗ Example: We measured the light intensity in different rooms.↗ · The intensity of the storm grew overnight.↗ · Sound intensity is measured in decibels.↗ · She spoke with great intensity.↗ · High-intensity exercise makes your heart beat fast.↗ · The intensity of the colour faded in the sun.↗ · Fine gentlemen though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it.↗

intensive — Everyday, meaning 1: Intensive means using a lot of effort or work in a short time: «an intensive course».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine) Intensive care is a part of a hospital for very ill people who need constant care and special machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Intensive farming uses lots of machines, chemicals or animals in a small space to produce more food.↗ Example: She took an intensive swimming course in the holidays.↗ · Grandpa was in intensive care after his operation.↗ · Intensive farming produces lots of food from small fields.↗ · The team had an intensive week of training.↗ · Doctors in intensive care watch patients day and night.↗ · Learning French in two weeks was intensive.↗ · Intensive chicken farms keep many birds indoors.↗ · The search was intensive but quick.↗

intent — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun, formal) What someone means or plans to do; purpose, as in «with intent to steal».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) «intent on» — very determined to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Paying very close attention, as in «an intent look».↗ Example: She was intent on finishing the puzzle.↗ · He was charged with breaking in with intent to steal.↗ · The cat watched the bird with an intent look.↗ · My intent was to help, not to annoy you.↗ · To all intents and purposes, the game was over.↗ · The boys were intent on building the den.↗ · He was standing there by night like one intent on doing evil.↗

intention — Everyday, meaning 1: What you plan or mean to do: your aim or purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law, ethics) What you meant to happen: in ethics and law it matters whether harm was done on purpose or by accident.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) A special purpose or person that a prayer or Mass is offered for: «Mass for the intentions of…».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old-fashioned) «His intentions» can mean whether a man plans to marry someone.↗ Example: My intention was to help, not to make a mess.↗ · I have no intention of going to bed early!↗ · She went to the shop with the intention of buying bread.↗ · Our learning intention today is to add fractions.↗ · He had good intentions but forgot.↗ · The priest offered the Mass for the intentions of the sick.↗ · The judge asked about the man's intention.↗ · The best intentions will not always ensure success.↗

intentional — Everyday, meaning 1: Intentional means done on purpose, deliberately, not by accident.↗ Example: Was the trip intentional or an accident?↗ · The referee gave a red card for an intentional handball.↗ · The spelling mistake was intentional, to make the joke work.↗ · Intentional kindness can make someone's day.↗ · The teacher asked if the damage was intentional.↗ · The fire was intentional, said the police.↗ · Many ancient authors added intentional blinds, such as forming the Triad of A.M.T., Ameth, truth ; and of AMN, Amen.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Seven Heavens and the Seven Earths are printed with errors, and I believe intentional mistakes, in many occult ancient books.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

intentionally — Everyday, meaning 1: On purpose; meaning to do it, not by accident.↗ Example: She didn't break the vase intentionally; it slipped.↗ · He intentionally left the door open for the cat.↗ · The referee said the foul was done intentionally.↗ · Never hurt an animal intentionally.↗ · I intentionally kept the surprise secret.↗ · The page was left blank intentionally.↗

intently — Everyday, meaning 1: With close attention, with the mind fixed on one thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Keeping the eyes or ears firmly turned to something.↗ Example: She listened intently to the soft voice.↗ · The fox watched the hen intently.↗ · He gazed intently at his friend's face.↗ · Pay attention intently to the question.↗ · From the place of His habitation He looketh intently upon all the inhabitants of the earth; (Writings PSA.33.14, JPS 1917)↗

inter — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To bury a dead person in a grave or tomb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (prefix «inter-») Between or among: international (between nations), interact, interval, internet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (a name) «Inter» is the short name of Inter Milan (Internazionale), an Italian football club.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In old dialect speech, inter can mean "into".↗ Example: The king was interred in Westminster Abbey.↗ · Her ashes were interred in the family grave.↗ · «Interact» means to act with each other.↗ · An international match is a match between nations.↗ · The soldiers were interred in a war cemetery in France.↗ · Inter beat Juventus at the weekend.↗ · In the Bahir, the Thirty-Two Ways are associated with the gematria value of לֵב lev ‘heart’ ([Bahir 63], [Bahir 95] inter alia cf.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Midrash Tanchuma 1:5 on [Genesis 1:1], Zohar 1:3a inter alia.]↗ [note 8: Though the phrase is usually translated the ‘Thirty-Two Paths’, I find that the alliteration of ‘Wondrous Ways of Wisdom’ neatly approximates the SY’s choice of poetic vocabulary.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

interact — Everyday, meaning 1: To interact means to talk, play or work with other people and respond to them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, things interact when they affect each other, like chemicals reacting or animals in a food web.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To interact with a computer, game or display means to use it by clicking, touching or speaking.↗ Example: Our puppy loves to interact with other dogs.↗ · The new pupil was shy but soon began to interact with the class.↗ · Plants and animals interact in a habitat.↗ · Some medicines interact with each other badly.↗ · You can interact with the museum displays by pressing buttons.↗ · We interact online, but be careful who you talk to.↗ · Bees and flowers interact: bees get food, flowers get pollen moved.↗ · The game lets players interact with characters.↗

interaction — Everyday, meaning 1: When two or more people or things act on each other, talk or work together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The way two forces, chemicals or living things affect each other.↗ Example: Playing together is a good kind of interaction.↗ · Bees and flowers have a helpful interaction.↗ · The museum has many interactions you can touch.↗ · Some medicines have a bad interaction.↗ · There is lots of interaction between pupils in group work.↗ · The game reacts to every interaction with the screen.↗

interbred — Everyday, meaning 1: (biology) Bred together: when two different kinds of animals or plants mate and have young.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Had young with a different group, species or variety, mixing their genes.↗ Example: Scientists found that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred long ago.↗ · Horses and donkeys can be interbred to produce mules.↗ · A liger is the young of a lion and tiger that interbred.↗ · Wild wolves and dogs have sometimes interbred.↗ · The farmer interbred two kinds of wheat to make a stronger one.↗ · Species that have interbred share some genes.↗

interbreed — Everyday, meaning 1: To interbreed means for animals or plants of different kinds, breeds or groups to mate and have young together.↗ Example: Lions and tigers can interbreed in zoos, but not in the wild.↗ · Horses and donkeys interbreed to produce mules.↗ · Wolves and dogs can interbreed.↗ · Neanderthals and modern humans interbred long ago.↗ · Farmers interbred cattle to get better milk.↗ · Two species that cannot interbreed are kept apart by nature.↗

intercede — Everyday, meaning 1: To speak up for someone, asking a person in power to forgive them or to help them.↗ Example: The villagers asked the queen to intercede for the boy.↗ · Her mother interceded, and the king forgave him.↗ · The gods interceded for the brave hero.↗ · Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen; I will take vengeance, and will let no man intercede.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.3, JPS 1917)↗

intercept — Everyday, meaning 1: To stop someone or something on the way and catch or block it before it gets where it was going: intercept a pass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To secretly catch messages meant for someone else: intercept a letter.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) An intercept is the point where a line or graph crosses an axis: the y-intercept.↗ Example: The defender intercepted the pass.↗ · Codebreakers intercepted secret messages in the war.↗ · The police intercepted the stolen car.↗ · The line y = 2x + 3 has a y-intercept of 3.↗ · Find where the graph intercepts the x-axis.↗ · The goalkeeper intercepted the cross.↗ · But while looking for the truth, came the evil one, the father of lies, to intercept him.↗ · astronomers signified by the word Tali, not the constellation Draco, but the line which joins together the two points in which the orbit of the moon intercepts the ecliptic (Dragon's head and tail).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

interception — Everyday, meaning 1: The act of stopping or catching something on its way from one place to another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sport) Catching or taking the ball when the other team passes it, especially in American football, netball, rugby and football.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Secretly catching or reading a message, call or letter meant for someone else.↗ Example: The goalkeeper's interception stopped the attack.↗ · Our netball team won because of Sophie's clever interception.↗ · In American football, an interception means the defence catches a pass meant for the other team.↗ · The spy's message never arrived because of an interception.↗ · The interception of the letter gave the detectives their clue.↗ · His quick interception saved the vase from hitting the floor.↗ · The quarterback threw two interceptions in the first half.↗

intercession — Everyday, meaning 1: The act of speaking up for someone to save them from harm or punishment.↗ Example: Through his wife's intercession, the sultan spared the man's life.↗ · The prisoner was freed by the queen's intercession.↗ · We did not get the prize, but the teacher's intercession helped.↗ · Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to Me; for I will not hear thee.↗ (Prophets JER.7.16, JPS 1917)↗

intercessor — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who pleads with another for someone else's sake.↗ Example: Thy first father sinned, and thine intercessors have transgressed against Me.↗ (Prophets ISA.43.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God; (Writings JOB.16.20, JPS 1917)↗ · If there be for him an angel, an intercessor, one among a thousand, to vouch for a man's uprightness; (Writings JOB.33.23, JPS 1917)↗

interchangeable — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to be swapped or exchanged for each other without making any difference.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: So alike that one could easily replace the other.↗ Example: The heads on this toothbrush are interchangeable.↗ · In this sentence, «big» and «large» are interchangeable.↗ · In addition, the numbers are interchangeable: 4 + 7 is the same as 7 + 4.↗ · In subtraction, the numbers are not interchangeable: 9 − 2 is not 2 − 9.↗ · Lego bricks are interchangeable, so you can build anything.↗ · The players on the team are not interchangeable; each has a special job.↗ · These two chargers look the same, but they are not interchangeable.↗

interchangeably — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way where two or more things can be swapped for each other without changing the result or meaning.↗ Example: People use sofa and couch interchangeably.↗ · These batteries can be used interchangeably.↗ · The words big and large are often used interchangeably.↗ · In this game, red and blue cards work interchangeably.↗ · Mum and Mom are used interchangeably in some families.↗ · Speed and velocity are not quite interchangeable in science.↗

intercourse — Everyday, meaning 1: Friendly dealings and contact between people, families or peoples, meeting and talking together.↗ (Other meanings are for older readers.).↗ Example: Our families have had friendly intercourse for many years.↗ · The two kingdoms kept up a peaceful intercourse.↗ · Trade and talk made up their intercourse.↗

interdependency — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A condition in which things depend on one another.↗ Example: The conception of Creation as a network of ontological interdependencies is perhaps apparent in the ‘231 gates’ referred to above in SY 2:4; see also SY 6:2.]↗ How did He combine them?↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

interdict — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: An official order that forbids something.↗ Example: Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.↗ (Writings DAN.6.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'↗ (Writings DAN.6.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Then these men came tumultuously unto the king, and said unto the king: 'Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.'↗ (Writings DAN.6.16, JPS 1917)↗

interest — Everyday, meaning 1: Interest is the feeling of wanting to know more about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An interest is something you like doing or learning about, like a hobby.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In money, interest is extra money a bank pays you for saving, or extra money you pay when you borrow.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To interest someone means to make them want to know more.↗ Example: She has a big interest in dinosaurs.↗ · My interests are football, drawing and reading.↗ · The bank pays interest on my savings.↗ · He lost interest in the game after a while.↗ · Does space interest you?↗ · It's in your interest to finish your homework.↗ · Places of interest in London include the Tower.↗ · Show interest when your friend tells you a story.↗ · Finnian received that information with respect and interest.↗ · Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.↗ (Torah LEV.25.37, JPS 1917)↗ · Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest.↗ (Torah DEU.23.19, JPS 1917)↗ · He that putteth not out his money on interest, nor taketh a bribe against the innocent.↗ (Writings PSA.15.5, JPS 1917)↗ · He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.↗ (Writings PRO.28.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, and awake that shall violently shake thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?↗ (Prophets HAB.2.7, JPS 1917)↗