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invading — Everyday, meaning 1: Entering a country or place by force, with an army, to take control of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coming into a place in large numbers, often in an unwanted way, like insects or weeds.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Getting into the body and causing harm, as germs do.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Going into someone's private space or life without being wanted.↗ Example: The Vikings were invading the coast of England.↗ · The invading army crossed the river at dawn.↗ · White blood cells fight invading germs.↗ · Ants are invading our kitchen again.↗ · Stop reading my diary, you're invading my privacy!↗ · Russia's army invading Ukraine in 2022 was condemned by most countries at the UN.↗ · Cane toads are invading new parts of Australia.↗ · The weeds are invading the vegetable patch.↗ · After which he lifted the spell, and the invading army slunk back to Rome, and reported what Virgilius had said to the emperor.↗

invalid — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Not legally or officially acceptable, as in an invalid ticket.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Not correct or not based on good reasons, as in an invalid argument or invalid input.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, old and can be offensive) A person who is ill or disabled for a long time and needs care.↗ Example: This ticket is invalid — it's for yesterday's show.↗ · The password is invalid, try again.↗ · Your argument is invalid because you skipped a step.↗ · A cheque without a signature is invalid.↗ · Her passport was invalid, so she couldn't fly.↗ · In the old story, the invalid was cared for by his sister.↗ · It was warranted harmless to infants and invalids, so he felt quite safe.↗

invariable — Everyday, meaning 1: Invariable means never changing; always the same.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) An invariable word does not change its form, for example «sheep» has the same singular and plural.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths, rare) An invariable or invariant is a value that stays the same when other things change.↗ Example: Her invariable answer was «Maybe later».↗ · Grandpa had an invariable habit of reading the paper after lunch.↗ · The rule is invariable: no phones in class.↗ · «Sheep» is an invariable noun: one sheep, two sheep.↗ · His invariable smile cheered everyone up.↗ · Nothing in nature is truly invariable.↗ · The same devices are in almost all cases resorted to, and their effect is invariable.↗

invariably — Everyday, meaning 1: Always, every time, without any change.↗ Example: The bus is invariably late on Mondays.↗ · My brother invariably eats the last biscuit.↗ · Water invariably boils at 100 °C at sea level.↗ · When it rains, the field invariably floods.↗ · She invariably arrives with a smile.↗ · The cat invariably sits on my homework.↗ · He is quite deaf and blind, and invariably barks when there is no need, and makes no sound when there is.↗

invasion — Everyday, meaning 1: When an army enters another country by force to attack or take it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When a large number of people, animals or things arrive and spread somewhere, often causing trouble (an invasion of ants).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Getting into something that should be private (an invasion of privacy).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An invasion can also be an unfair act that takes away someone's rights.↗ Example: The Roman invasion of Britain changed life on the island.↗ · Our picnic suffered an invasion of ants.↗ · Reading my diary is an invasion of privacy!↗ · Rabbits were an invasion that harmed Australia's plants.↗ · The film is about an alien invasion.↗ · The soldiers prepared for an invasion from the sea.↗ · An invasion of tourists fills the town every summer.↗ · Jupiter granted beards to the She-Goats at their own request, much to the disgust of the he-Goats, who considered this to be an unwarrantable invasion of their rights and dignities.↗

invasive — Everyday, meaning 1: An invasive plant or animal spreads into a place where it does not belong and harms the plants and animals already living there.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An invasive illness, such as some cancers, spreads into other parts of the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An invasive medical test or operation goes inside the body, by cutting or putting something in.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Invasive questions or actions go too far into someone's private life.↗ Example: Cane toads are an invasive species in Australia.↗ · Grey squirrels are invasive in Britain and push out red squirrels.↗ · The doctor said the scan is non-invasive and will not hurt.↗ · Asking how much money someone earns can feel invasive.↗ · Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant that is hard to remove.↗ · Invasive weeds choked the pond.↗ · Some apps collect invasive amounts of data.↗

invent — Everyday, meaning 1: To make or design something new that did not exist before.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make up a story or excuse that is not true.↗ Example: Who invented the telephone?↗ · We invented a new game at lunch.↗ · The wheel was invented thousands of years ago.↗ · She invented a machine to feed her cat.↗ · He invented an excuse for being late.↗ · Let's invent a story about a talking frog.↗ · You will not learn how to invent anything."↗ · Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d.↗ 570, who designed it to assist his pupils.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · (1) "isiD (Scribe), the man whom God inspired to invent the alphabet; (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · bols were alre;iily in existence from tiie time the numerals were invented.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the corners, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones.↗ (Writings 2CH.26.15, JPS 1917)↗

invention — Everyday, meaning 1: An invention is a new thing or idea that someone has made or thought of for the first time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Invention is the act of inventing something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An invention can also be a made-up story that is not true.↗ Example: The light bulb was an important invention.↗ · The invention of the wheel made travel easier.↗ · My invention is a machine that walks the dog.↗ · The telephone was Alexander Graham Bell's invention.↗ · His excuse was pure invention.↗ · We entered our inventions in the science fair.↗ · The internet is one of the biggest inventions of all.↗ · Ah, yes; sleep is a capital invention.↗ · invention of letters was anciently spoken of as the creation of the universe.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · '"The invention of Signs to represent numbers is doubtless much older than any form ol writing" (Chambers Encyclopaedia, 1893, Vol. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The invention of such an alphabet as the Libyan must have con- sisted, chiefly of symbols for consonants, because vowel sym- (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Behold, this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.↗ (Writings ECC.7.29, JPS 1917)↗

inventiveness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The quality of being good at coming up with new ideas or new ways of doing things.↗ Example: 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)↗

inventor — Everyday, meaning 1: An inventor is a person who thinks of and makes something new that did not exist before, such as a machine, tool or way of doing something.↗ Example: Thomas Edison was a famous inventor.↗ · The inventor of the telephone was Alexander Graham Bell.↗ · Our class held a young inventors' fair.↗ · The inventor tested his machine many times before it worked.↗ · She wants to be an inventor when she grows up.↗ · Many inventors fail many times before they succeed.↗ · A capital toast was drunk to the inventor of the soup, and some one said he ought to be made a relieving officer to the poor.↗ · 15) As the Arabic numeral system of notation apparently originated from the Selirot philosophy of the Sefer Yetzirah, it is proper to share the view of those who claim the Hebrews as its inventors (E. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

inventory — Everyday, meaning 1: A complete list of all the things in a place, such as goods in a shop or items in a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: All the goods a shop or company has in store, ready to sell (stock).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (games) The list or box of things a player carries in a video game.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To make a full list of things.↗ Example: The shop takes an inventory of everything on the shelves each January.↗ · Robinson made an inventory of the things he saved from the wreck.↗ · My inventory is full, so I can't pick up the sword.↗ · The library inventory shows 3,000 books.↗ · Before we moved, Mum made an inventory of the furniture.↗ · The toy shop's inventory ran low before Christmas.↗ · If the inventory had 120 pens and 45 were sold, 75 are left.↗

inversion — Everyday, meaning 1: Turning something upside down or the other way round.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) Changing to the opposite or reverse, such as swapping the top and bottom of a fraction, or using the inverse operation.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (grammar) Changing the usual order of words, like putting the verb before the subject in a question («Are you…?»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (weather) A temperature inversion: a layer of warm air over cold air near the ground that traps fog and smoke.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (music) Changing the order of the notes in a chord.↗ Example: The roller coaster has three inversions.↗ · To divide by a fraction, we use inversion: 1/2 becomes 2/1.↗ · «Are you ready?» uses inversion of the subject and the verb.↗ · A temperature inversion trapped the smoke over the city.↗ · The poem uses inversion to make the rhyme fit.↗ · The pianist played the chord in its first inversion.↗ · Inversion of colours turns black into white on the screen.↗

invert — Everyday, meaning 1: To invert something is to turn it upside down.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To invert something is to swap it round so it goes the opposite way, back to front or in reverse order.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) To invert a fraction is to turn it upside down, so 2/3 becomes 3/2.↗ Example: Invert the glass and the water will spill out.↗ · To divide by 1/2, invert it and multiply by 2.↗ · A pinhole camera inverts the picture.↗ · In a question we invert «he is» to «is he».↗ · Put the words in inverted commas.↗ · The cake was inverted onto a plate.↗ · Bats hang inverted from the cave roof.↗

invertebrate — Everyday, meaning 1: An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone, such as an insect, spider, worm, snail, jellyfish or crab.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Invertebrate (adjective) means having no backbone.↗ Example: A worm is an invertebrate because it has no backbone.↗ · Insects, spiders and snails are invertebrates.↗ · We went on a hunt for invertebrates under logs.↗ · Most animals on Earth are invertebrates.↗ · A crab is an invertebrate with a hard shell called an exoskeleton.↗ · An octopus is a clever invertebrate.↗

inverted — Everyday, meaning 1: Inverted means turned upside down or the other way round.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Inverted commas are the punctuation marks ‘ ’ or « » used around speech or a quote; also called speech marks or quotation marks.↗ Example: Put inverted commas around what the character says.↗ · The camera made an inverted picture.↗ · Turn the jar inverted on the plate.↗ · To divide by a fraction, multiply by the inverted fraction.↗ · The bat hung inverted from the branch.↗ · The letters on the reflection looked inverted.↗ · The roof had the appearance of an inverted flower, and the colors grew deeper and brighter to the gazer.↗

invest — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) To invest is to put money into something, like a business, shares or a bank account, hoping to get more money back later.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To invest time or effort in something is to spend it because you think it will be worth it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To invest in something can mean to buy something useful that will last.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) To invest someone with power is to give them official power or a title.↗ Example: Grandma invested her savings in a small bakery.↗ · If you invest your money, it might grow, but it might also shrink.↗ · I invested a lot of time in this model rocket.↗ · It's worth investing in good football boots.↗ · The town invested in a new playground.↗ · The company invests in solar panels.↗ · Practising every day is investing in yourself.↗ · He sold all his flock, invested it in a cargo of dates, and set sail.↗ · 'Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this selfsame day; this selfsame day the king of Babylon hath invested Jerusalem.↗ (Prophets EZK.24.2, JPS 1917)↗

investigate — Everyday, meaning 1: To try to find out the facts about something, especially a crime or problem.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science, maths) To study or test something carefully to learn about it.↗ Example: Investigate which ball bounces highest.↗ · The police are investigating the burglary.↗ · We investigated how plants grow in the dark.↗ · Investigate the pattern in the times tables.↗ · Mum went to investigate the strange noise.↗ · The detective investigated every clue.↗ · Let the facts of the case be thoroughly investigated.↗ · After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and received them into his power (hands).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Learn this wisdom, and be wise in the understanding of it, investigate these numbers, and draw knowledge from them, fix the design in its purity, and pass from it to its Creator seated on his throne.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Sefer Yetzirah urges us to investigate and examine the letters, that we may have a clear insight into the subject.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗