📖 I — The English dictionary · page 39

isthmus — Everyday, meaning 1: (geography) A narrow strip of land with sea on both sides that joins two larger pieces of land.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A narrow part joining two bigger parts in the body or in a plant.↗ Example: The Isthmus of Panama joins North America and South America.↗ · Auckland is built on a narrow isthmus.↗ · A canal was dug across the isthmus so ships could pass.↗ · On the map, the isthmus looks like a thin bridge of land.↗ · The castle stood at the end of a rocky isthmus.↗ · At high tide the isthmus almost disappears under the waves.↗ · An isthmus joins two lands; a strait joins two seas.↗ · At the isthmus of Corinth he was opposed by Atreus, the son of Pelops, who at the death of Eurystheus had inherited the kingdom.↗

it — Everyday, meaning 1: It points to a thing, an animal or an idea already named.↗ e.g. I have a ball; it is red.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is used for weather, time and distance.↗ e.g. It is raining.↗ It is 3 o'clock.↗ It is far.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It can stand for a whole sentence or idea.↗ e.g. I know it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: It can point forward to an idea coming later.↗ e.g. It is fun to swim.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «That's it» means that's all, or that's right; «this is it» means this is the moment; «you're it» is said in the game of tag; «go for it» means try it.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (rough) «Cut it out!», «stop it!», «pack it in!»↗ (UK) mean stop doing that now; «you'll get it» means you'll be punished.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (formal) The exam voice uses «it» in stiff openings: «It is given that …», «It may be assumed that …», «It follows that …».↗ Example: Here the word «more» does not mean adding: it asks how big the difference is.↗ · Sam had a pie and cut it into 6 slices.↗ · I found a shell and put it in my bag.↗ · It is cold outside today.↗ · It is time for bed.↗ · What is it?↗ · The dog wagged its tail.↗ · Tag, you're it!↗ · It's 8:25, bus is at 8:40, we'll make it↗ · Cut it out, you two, or no pudding!↗ · That's it, no more biscuits.↗ · It is given that a pie is divided into 6 congruent portions, of which 2 are consumed.↗ · "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.↗ · and every raven after its kinds; (Torah DEU.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · It shall not be baked with leaven.↗ (Torah LEV.6.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And he called the name of it Sitnah.↗ (Torah GEN.26.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Is it not wheat harvest to-day?↗ (Prophets 1SA.12.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Was it not but a word?'↗ (Prophets 1SA.17.29, JPS 1917)↗ · But what is it even then?↗ (Prophets 1KI.14.14, JPS 1917)↗

italian — Everyday, meaning 1: Italian means from or about Italy, a country in southern Europe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An Italian is a person from Italy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Italian is the language spoken in Italy and parts of Switzerland.↗ Example: We had dinner at an Italian restaurant.↗ · Pizza is a famous Italian food.↗ · My friend's grandma is Italian.↗ · She is learning to speak Italian.↗ · «Ciao» means hello in Italian.↗ · Many music words come from Italian.↗ · Rome is the capital of Italy, and the people there are Italians.↗ · The Italian team won the match.↗ · It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.↗

italic — Everyday, meaning 1: Printed letters that slope to the right, like handwriting, used to show titles or to make a word stand out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Italic) To do with ancient Italy and its peoples and languages.↗ Example: The title of the book is printed in italics.↗ · Press Ctrl+I to make your word italic.↗ · In the story, the girl's thoughts are in italics.↗ · My teacher writes in a neat italic hand.↗ · Use italics for the names of ships, like the Titanic.↗ · The word «really» was in italics to show it was said loudly.↗ · Italic letters lean to the right.↗ · Passages in italics indicated by underscores.↗

itch — Everyday, meaning 1: An itch is a feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To itch means your skin has that feeling, or that something makes your skin feel like that, like a woolly jumper.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An itch to do something, or itching to do it, means you really want to do it soon.↗ Example: The mosquito bite started to itch.↗ · Try not to scratch that itch or it will bleed.↗ · This wool jumper makes my neck itch.↗ · I had an itch on my back I could not reach.↗ · Chickenpox spots itch a lot.↗ · The children were itching to go outside and play in the snow.↗ · Nettles made my legs itch for an hour.↗ · Dad has itchy feet and wants to travel again.↗ · Hook itched to do it, but it seemed too brutal.↗ · The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.↗ (Torah DEU.28.27, JPS 1917)↗

itchy — Everyday, meaning 1: Itchy means you have a feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Itchy can describe something that makes your skin itch: an itchy jumper.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Itchy feet» means wanting to travel or move on.↗ Example: The mosquito bite is really itchy.↗ · This wool jumper is itchy.↗ · My eyes are itchy because of hay fever.↗ · Try not to scratch your itchy spots.↗ · Chickenpox makes you very itchy.↗ · His head was itchy, so he had head lice.↗ · The label on my shirt is itchy.↗ · After a year at home, she had itchy feet.↗

item — Everyday, meaning 1: One thing in a list or a group of things, like an item on a shopping list.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A piece of news or a report: a news item.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: One thing for sale in a shop.↗ Example: Tick off each item on the list.↗ · Each item in the shop costs one dollar.↗ · She bought six items at the supermarket.↗ · A scarf is an item of clothing.↗ · Pack these items: torch, water and a map.↗ · The lost property box was full of items without names.↗ · There was a funny news item about a dog that could skate.↗ · How many items can you remember from the tray?↗ · The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight.↗ · Both items refer to anatomical hiddenness: the word emerging from the tongue, hidden in the mouth, and circumcision of the genitals, the concealed lower organs revealed during circumcision.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

itemise — Everyday, meaning 1: To itemise is to make a list of things one by one, often with the price or amount of each.↗ Example: The shop gave us an itemised receipt.↗ · Please itemise everything you spent on the trip.↗ · Dad checked the itemised phone bill.↗ · The teacher itemised the things we must bring to camp.↗ · An itemised list makes packing easier.↗ · The plumber itemised the parts and the labour.↗

itinerant — Everyday, meaning 1: Itinerant means travelling from place to place, often for work, instead of living in one place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) An itinerant is a person who travels about like this.↗ Example: An itinerant preacher rode from village to village.↗ · Itinerant workers moved from farm to farm to pick fruit.↗ · The itinerant musician played in a different town each night.↗ · In old times, itinerant pedlars sold pots and ribbons.↗ · The circus had an itinerant life.↗ · Some teachers are itinerant and visit several schools.↗

itinerary — Everyday, meaning 1: A plan of a journey, listing the places to visit and the times.↗ Example: The teacher handed out the itinerary for the trip.↗ · Our itinerary includes the zoo and the museum.↗ · Check the itinerary to see when the coach leaves.↗ · We changed our itinerary because of the rain.↗ · The itinerary says lunch is at half past twelve.↗ · Plan an itinerary for a day in London.↗

iv — Everyday, meaning 1: IV is the Roman numeral for 4 (one before five.↗ e.g. I before V).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medical) An IV is a drip that gives fluid or medicine into a vein; short for «intravenous».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: IV is used in names of kings, queens and popes for «the Fourth», like Henry IV.↗ Example: IV means 4 in Roman numerals.↗ · King Henry IV ruled England.↗ · The clock showed IV instead of 4.↗ · The nurse put an IV in his arm.↗ · Chapter IV begins on page 30.↗ · VI is 6, but IV is 4, because the smaller number comes first.↗ · ") See Nestle in Hasting's Bi/i/e Diclionnry, vol IV, p 542.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The numeral one 1 and the zero 0 are a fitting symbolization of the two opposing principles concerning which the Sefer Yetzirah iv> "23) says as follows: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · BOOK IV A Prayer of Moses the man of God.↗ (Writings PSA.90.1, JPS 1917)↗

ivory — Everyday, meaning 1: Ivory is the hard, creamy-white material that elephant tusks are made of; walrus, narwhal and hippo teeth are also ivory.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ivory is a creamy off-white colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In the past, piano keys, chess pieces and carvings were made of ivory; «tickle the ivories» (informal) means to play the piano.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «An ivory tower» is a place or life far from real-world problems, especially used about clever people who do not understand ordinary life.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Ivory City is the name of a fairy-tale city in one story.↗ Example: Elephants are killed by poachers for their ivory.↗ · Selling new ivory is against the law in many countries.↗ · The old piano had ivory keys.↗ · She chose an ivory-coloured dress.↗ · The museum has a chess set carved from walrus ivory.↗ · Rangers protect elephants from ivory hunters.↗ · (informal) Grandad likes to tickle the ivories at parties.↗ · Scientists should not live in an ivory tower.↗ · This is none other than Gulizar of the Ivory City.↗ · Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.↗ (Writings 2CH.9.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.↗ (Prophets 1KI.10.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Myrrh, and aloes, and cassia are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.↗ (Writings PSA.45.9, JPS 1917)↗

ivy — Everyday, meaning 1: An evergreen climbing plant with dark shiny leaves that grows up walls and trees.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (poison ivy, North America) A different plant whose leaves give an itchy rash.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Ivy League, USA) A group of old famous universities.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Ivy is a girl's name.↗ Example: Ivy climbed all over the old castle wall.↗ · Birds eat ivy berries in winter.↗ · Don't eat ivy berries; they are poisonous to people.↗ · We sang «The Holly and the Ivy» at the Christmas concert.↗ · In Canada we learn: leaves of three, let it be — that's poison ivy.↗ · The Badger's house had an ivy-covered entrance.↗ · My great-gran was called Ivy.↗

ix — Everyday, meaning 1: (maths) The Roman numeral for 9.↗ e.g. I (1) before X (10) means 10 minus 1.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used in names of kings, popes, chapters and events, like Charles IX or Super Bowl IX, read as «the ninth» or «nine».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: It is not an English word on its own; as small letters «ix» it is just two letters.↗ Example: IX means 9 in Roman numerals.↗ · Chapter IX is the scariest part of the book.↗ · King Louis IX of France lived in the 1200s.↗ · On our old clock, the 9 is written as IX.↗ · X minus I gives IX, which is 9.↗ · Can you write 19 in Roman numerals?↗ It is XIX.↗ · Pope Pius IX is read «Pope Pius the Ninth».↗ · Astle, The Origin and Progress of Writing, London 1784, p. 41: rhu!↗ ', IX, 354, 439).↗ <)r he could have meant Jewish astronomers like JIashallah, who was called by Abraham ibn Eira an Indian sage (mr; Din) (see M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

iyar — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The name of a month in the Hebrew calendar, about April or May.↗ Example: The twelve months of the year are: Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tamus, Ab, Elul, Tishri, Marcheshvan, Kislev, Teves, Schevat and Adar.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

iyyar — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The name of a month in the Hebrew calendar, also spelled Iyar.↗ Example: He made the letter Waw reign, and bound to it a crown, and formed with it Taurus in the World, and Iyyar in the Year, and the left hand in the Person.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

izzard — Everyday, meaning 1: (old) Izzard is an old name for the letter Z, used in parts of Britain and America long ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Izzard is also a surname.↗ Example: In old books, «from A to izzard» means from beginning to end.↗ · Izzard is an old name for the letter Z.↗ · Today we say «zed» or «zee», not izzard.↗ · The puzzle asked for the old name of Z: izzard.↗ · He knew the subject from A to izzard.↗