📖 I — The English dictionary · page 30

interfaith — Everyday, meaning 1: Interfaith means between or among people of different religions, like Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An interfaith event brings different faiths together to meet, talk, pray or work for good causes.↗ Example: The town held an interfaith service for peace.↗ · Leaders from many religions met for interfaith dialogue.↗ · During Interfaith Week we visited a mosque, a synagogue and a gurdwara.↗ · The interfaith group runs a food bank together.↗ · Interfaith friendship helps people respect each other's beliefs.↗ · The interfaith council meets every month.↗

interfere — Everyday, meaning 1: To interfere is to get involved in other people's business when you are not wanted.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To interfere with something is to stop it from working or happening properly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) When waves interfere, they meet and add or cancel each other.↗ Example: Please don't interfere in our game.↗ · Loud noise can interfere with your sleep.↗ · Never interfere with a fire alarm.↗ · Phones may interfere with the plane's radio.↗ · Mum told Gran not to interfere.↗ · Screen time before bed interferes with sleep.↗

interference — Everyday, meaning 1: Getting involved in someone else's business when you are not wanted: interference in their affairs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, radio) Noise or crackle that spoils a radio, TV or phone signal.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) A foul when a player wrongly blocks another.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) The way waves combine and add up or cancel out.↗ Example: The radio crackled with interference.↗ · She resented her brother's interference in her plans.↗ · The referee called interference.↗ · Countries should hold elections without foreign interference.↗ · Mobile phones can cause interference on speakers.↗ · Light waves show interference patterns.↗ · One of the Dolphins replied, “We would far rather be destroyed in our battle with each other than admit any interference from you in our affairs.”↗

interim — Everyday, meaning 1: Interim means for the time being, until something permanent is arranged; temporary.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) In the interim means in the time between two events; meanwhile.↗ Example: The school has an interim head until a new one is chosen.↗ · The team wrote an interim report halfway through the project.↗ · The new road will open next year; in the interim, use the old one.↗ · The interim coach led the team for three matches.↗ · We set up an interim shelter after the storm.↗ · An interim payment was made before the full amount.↗

interior — Everyday, meaning 1: The interior is the inside of something, like a building, car or box.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The interior of a country or continent is the part far from the coast.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Interior describes things on the inside: interior walls, interior design.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) An interior angle is an angle inside a shape at one of its corners.↗ Example: The interior of the castle was cold and dark.↗ · The car has a leather interior.↗ · Few people live in the interior of Australia.↗ · The interior angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.↗ · She works as an interior designer.↗ · Paint the interior walls white.↗ · "Sancta Maria!" resounded from the interior.↗

interjection — Everyday, meaning 1: (grammar) A word or short phrase that shows a sudden feeling, such as «Wow!», «Ouch!», «Oops!» or «Hey!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something said suddenly to interrupt someone.↗ Example: «Ouch!» is an interjection.↗ · Underline the interjection in the sentence.↗ · «Phew, that was close!» starts with an interjection.↗ · Comics are full of interjections like «Wham!»↗ · His interjection stopped the speech.↗ · «Oops» is the interjection I use when I drop things.↗

interleave — Everyday, meaning 1: To interleave things is to put them between each other in turn, like mixing two piles of cards one by one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To interleave a book is to put blank or extra pages between its pages.↗ Example: Interleave the red and black cards so they alternate.↗ · The teacher interleaved addition and subtraction questions on the sheet.↗ · Interleaved practice helps you remember better than doing one type at once.↗ · She interleaved the photos with tissue paper to protect them.↗ · The old diary was interleaved with pressed flowers.↗ · The computer interleaves the two sounds so they play together.↗

interlock — Everyday, meaning 1: To fit or lock firmly together, with parts of one thing going into gaps in another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be closely joined so that one thing depends on another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A device or knitted fabric whose parts are linked together, such as a safety lock on a machine or interlock cotton.↗ Example: The jigsaw pieces interlock perfectly.↗ · The Olympic flag has five interlocking rings.↗ · She interlocked her fingers and stretched her arms.↗ · Lego bricks interlock so the tower does not fall.↗ · The teeth of the two gears interlock and turn together.↗ · The stories in the book interlock, so you meet the same people again.↗ · The washing machine has a door interlock, so it will not open while it spins.↗ · My granny's cardigan is made of soft interlock cotton.↗

interlocutor — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A person you are talking with in a conversation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A person or group that talks on behalf of others, especially in official talks between countries or groups.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old use) The person in the middle of an old-style stage show who asked the questions and led the jokes.↗ Example: My interlocutor nodded but said nothing.↗ · In a good conversation, you listen to your interlocutor.↗ · The government wanted a trusted interlocutor to speak with the rebels.↗ · The writer describes her interlocutor as calm and patient.↗ · Be polite to your interlocutor, even when you disagree.↗ · In the debate, each pupil faced an interlocutor from the other team.↗ · The old stage show had an interlocutor who asked silly questions.↗

intermediary — Everyday, meaning 1: An intermediary is a person or group who goes between two sides to help them talk, agree or make a deal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal adjective) Intermediary means in the middle, between two stages or things.↗ Example: The teacher acted as an intermediary between the two angry boys.↗ · The countries talked through an intermediary.↗ · An estate agent is an intermediary between the buyer and the seller.↗ · Maya was the intermediary when her friends fell out.↗ · The deal was made through an intermediary.↗ · Caterpillar to butterfly passes through an intermediary stage, the chrysalis.↗ · Perhaps capturing an intermediary concept between the immaterial divine imminence and the material wind is ‘wisp’, meaning both a small breeze and a phantom presence, but ‘Holy Wisp’ is a rather underwhelming expression.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

intermediate — Everyday, meaning 1: In the middle; between two levels, stages or places.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not a beginner but not yet an expert, as in «an intermediate swimmer».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A person at a middle level; in chemistry, a substance made in the middle of a reaction.↗ Example: I'm in the intermediate swimming group.↗ · Show the intermediate steps in your working.↗ · The chrysalis is an intermediate stage between caterpillar and butterfly.↗ · The book is for intermediate learners of French.↗ · Grey is an intermediate colour between black and white.↗ · Between 3 and 7, the intermediate whole numbers are 4, 5 and 6.↗ · She is no longer a beginner; she's an intermediate.↗ · Ruthenian is a language intermediate between Russian and Polish, but quite independent of both.↗

interment — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Interment is the burying of a dead person's body in a grave or tomb.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) An interment is one burial, the ceremony when a body is laid in the ground.↗ Example: The interment took place in the village churchyard.↗ · After the church service, the family went to the cemetery for the interment.↗ · The notice said «Interment private, family only».↗ · Archaeologists study the interment of ancient kings.↗ · Grandad's interment was quiet and peaceful.↗ · The Egyptians prepared bodies carefully before interment.↗ · Flowers were laid on the grave after the interment.↗ · When the place of interment was reached the corpse was lowered, just as it was, into a deep pit.↗

interminable — Everyday, meaning 1: Going on for so long that it seems it will never end; endless and tiresome.↗ Example: We walked through an interminable forest.↗ · The wait for the bus felt interminable.↗ · The lesson seemed interminable.↗

intermingle — Everyday, meaning 1: To intermingle is to mix together, so that the different parts are spread among each other.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When people intermingle, they mix and mingle in a group, talking with people they did not come with.↗ Example: The smells of bread and coffee intermingled in the kitchen.↗ · At the party, the parents intermingled with the teachers.↗ · In the river mouth, fresh water intermingles with salt water.↗ · The two colours of paint intermingled into a swirl.↗ · Many cultures intermingle in a big city like London or Toronto.↗ · Laughter intermingled with the music.↗ · At lunch the older and younger pupils intermingled on the field.↗ · Birds, flowers, and festoons appeared intermingled in seeming confusion.↗

intermission — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A pause or break in something that is going on.↗ Example: Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, (Writings LAM.3.49, JPS 1917)↗

intermittent — Everyday, meaning 1: Stopping and starting again and again; not continuous.↗ Example: The forecast is for intermittent rain.↗ · We had an intermittent Wi-Fi signal in the caravan.↗ · There was an intermittent beeping from the smoke alarm, so we changed the battery.↗ · Intermittent showers stopped the cricket match several times.↗ · His cough was intermittent.↗ · The streetlight has an intermittent fault.↗

intern — Everyday, meaning 1: An intern is a student or young person who works somewhere for a short time to learn the job, sometimes without pay.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) An intern is a young doctor who has just finished medical school and is training in a hospital.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To intern someone is to lock them up, usually in a camp, during a war, because they come from an enemy country.↗ Example: My cousin is an intern at a bank this summer.↗ · The intern made tea and learned how the office works.↗ · The young intern checked the patient's chart with the senior doctor.↗ · She wants to be an intern at the zoo.↗ · During the war, thousands of people were interned in camps.↗ · The internship lasts six weeks.↗ · The intern asked lots of good questions.↗

internal — Everyday, meaning 1: Inside something, especially inside the body, a building or a country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Happening within a group or organisation, not with outsiders, as in «an internal exam».↗ Example: The heart and lungs are internal organs.↗ · The internal angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.↗ · Our school has an internal exam before the real one.↗ · Close the internal doors to keep heat in.↗ · Some injuries are internal and can't be seen.↗ · The company had an internal meeting.↗ · I base it off an interpretation of the SY’s internal structure, the semantic properties of the root ספ״ר SPR, and the SY’s general grammatical inventiveness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

internally — Everyday, meaning 1: Internally means inside something, such as inside the body, a building or a machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Internally means within an organisation or group, not involving people outside it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Internally can also mean in your mind, without saying it out loud.↗ Example: The engine is cooled internally by water.↗ · This cream is not to be taken internally — don't swallow it.↗ · After the crash, the doctors checked if he was bleeding internally.↗ · The school dealt with the problem internally.↗ · The job was advertised internally first.↗ · Plants move water internally through their stems.↗ · She smiled, but internally she was nervous.↗ · He consulted many doctors far and near, and took all kinds of medicines both internally and externally.↗

international — Everyday, meaning 1: International means between or involving two or more countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, sport) An international is a match between national teams, or a player who has played for their country.↗ Example: We flew from an international airport.↗ · The Olympics is an international sports event.↗ · Our school held an international food day.↗ · English is an international language.↗ · She is a rugby international who played for Ireland.↗ · Making an international call costs more.↗ · At the International Mathematical Congress held in Paris in 1900, Cantor suggested that zero was pro- bably in use among the Babylonians as early as 1700 B. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

internationally — Everyday, meaning 1: Internationally means between or among different countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Internationally means all over the world, in many countries, not just one.↗ Example: She is an internationally famous singer.↗ · The football match was shown internationally.↗ · Scientists work together internationally to study the climate.↗ · The metre is an internationally agreed unit.↗ · This chocolate is sold internationally.↗ · The charity helps children internationally.↗ · Our school writes to pen pals internationally.↗