📖 I — The English dictionary · page 5

illustrator — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who draws or paints the pictures for books, magazines, posters or websites.↗ Example: Quentin Blake was the illustrator of many Roald Dahl books.↗ · The illustrator drew a funny dragon on every page.↗ · Who is the illustrator of this picture book?↗ · She wants to be an illustrator when she grows up.↗ · Some authors are also their own illustrators.↗ · The illustrator used watercolours for the pictures.↗ · It is seldom, indeed, that an illustrator enters so thoroughly into the spirit of his text.↗

illustrious — Everyday, meaning 1: Famous and greatly respected, for great deeds or a noble family.↗ Example: The illustrious city of Athens was famed for wise men.↗ · The princess was of illustrious birth.↗ · You are a citizen of illustrious Athens.↗

ilo — Everyday, meaning 1: ILO stands for the International Labour Organization, a part of the United Nations that sets fair rules for work, such as fighting child labour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: On its own ilo is not an English word; it may be part of a name or a cut piece of a word (kilo, silo).↗ Example: The ILO is part of the United Nations.↗ · The ILO works to end child labour.↗ · The ILO has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.↗ · ILO rules say workers should be safe at work.↗ · The ILO was set up in 1919, after the First World War.↗ · Ilo on its own isn't an English word.↗

image — Everyday, meaning 1: A picture, photo or drawing of something, on paper or a screen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A picture of something in your mind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The picture of something seen in a mirror, lens or water; a reflection.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The way other people see someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: An image can also be a statue or carved figure of a person or god.↗ Example: Draw the image of the shape after reflecting it in the mirror line.↗ · The image in the mirror is back to front.↗ · She searched for images of tigers for her project.↗ · Don't post images of yourself online without asking a parent.↗ · The poem made a clear image in my mind.↗ · A magnifying glass makes a bigger image.↗ · He's the image of his father.↗ · Some images online have been changed to trick people.↗ · The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter↗ · Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made He man.↗ (Torah GEN.9.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.↗ (Torah GEN.1.27, JPS 1917)↗ · lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (Torah DEU.4.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Is this man Coniah a despised, broken image?↗ (Prophets JER.22.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image.↗ (Writings DAN.2.31, JPS 1917)↗ · They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.↗ (Writings PSA.106.19, JPS 1917)↗

imagery — Everyday, meaning 1: Imagery is the use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind, using descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings, often through similes and metaphors.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Imagery is also pictures or images, such as satellite imagery or the images in a film or painting.↗ Example: The poem uses imagery of the sea and storms.↗ · Find two examples of imagery in the first paragraph.↗ · The writer's vivid imagery made me feel I was in the forest.↗ · Satellite imagery showed the size of the bushfire.↗ · Church windows are full of religious imagery.↗ · Similes and metaphors are kinds of imagery.↗ · The film's imagery was dark and frightening.↗ · And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.16, JPS 1917)↗

imaginable — Everyday, meaning 1: That can be thought of or pictured in the mind.↗ Used with «all» or «every», it means as much or as many as you can think of.↗ Example: She had all the beauty imaginable.↗ · The nurse took every pain imaginable with her daughter.↗ · Bellissima saw the loveliest being imaginable.↗

imaginary — Everyday, meaning 1: Imaginary means existing only in the mind, not real.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In maths an imaginary line, like a line of symmetry or the equator, is one we think of but cannot see.↗ Example: She has an imaginary friend called Polly.↗ · The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth.↗ · Dragons are imaginary creatures.↗ · We built an imaginary castle in the playground.↗ · Draw the imaginary line of symmetry.↗ · The monster under the bed was only imaginary.↗ · “Not quite empty, mummy,” Slightly said, after looking into an imaginary mug.↗

imagination — Everyday, meaning 1: The ability to make pictures, ideas and stories in your mind about things that are not real or not present.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The ability to think of new and clever ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something that is only in your mind: «It's just your imagination».↗ Example: Use your imagination to write a story about a dragon.↗ · She has a wonderful imagination.↗ · The noise in the dark was just my imagination.↗ · The book captured the children's imagination.↗ · With a bit of imagination, a box becomes a spaceship.↗ · Einstein said imagination is important for scientists.↗ · Children's imaginations are full of monsters and fairies.↗ · And this was enough to excite Jurgen's imagination.↗ · And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.↗ (Torah GEN.6.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.↗ (Writings PSA.73.7, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever, even the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and direct their heart unto Thee; (Writings 1CH.29.18, JPS 1917)↗

imaginative — Everyday, meaning 1: Good at thinking of new, clever or creative ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing creativity and new ideas: «an imaginative story».↗ Example: Mia wrote an imaginative story about a talking teapot.↗ · Imaginative play helps young children learn.↗ · He found an imaginative way to fix the broken kite.↗ · The artist's paintings are bright and imaginative.↗ · Be imaginative and invent your own monster.↗ · The class came up with imaginative ideas for the school fair.↗ · For all these reasons, then, Celtic folk-tales are of high scientific interest to the folk-lorist, while they yield to none in imaginative and literary qualities.↗ · The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelligence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes, which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Twenty-fourth Path is the Imaginative Intelli- gence, and it is so called because it gives a likeness to all the similitudes which are created in like manner similar to its harmonious elegancies.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

imagine — Everyday, meaning 1: To imagine is to picture something in your mind: imagine a purple cow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To imagine is to think or guess that something is true.↗ e.g. I imagine you are tired.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To imagine something can mean to think you see or hear it when it is not real.↗ Example: Watch, count, and imagine.↗ · Imagine 3 bags with 4 apples in each.↗ · Imagine Tom gave away 2 of his 6 cars.↗ · Imagine you are an astronaut on the Moon.↗ · Close your eyes and imagine a quiet beach.↗ · I imagine the shop is closed by now.↗ · Did you hear a noise, or did I imagine it?↗ · Can you imagine a world without cars?↗ · 7:1 Thus for instance, they imagined that the name of Jehovah, יהוי, is by reversing the alphabet; מצפץ (mzpz); mem signifies the letter jod, zaddi, the letter he, and pe, the letter wav.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · This passage was apparently misunderstood by some later writers, who imagined that Rabbi Akiba was the author of the Sefer Yetzirah attributed to Abraham.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.↗ (Writings JOB.21.27, JPS 1917)↗ · For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.↗ (Writings PSA.21.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.↗ (Writings PSA.10.2, JPS 1917)↗

imam — Everyday, meaning 1: (Islam) An imam is the person who leads prayers in a mosque and often teaches and gives advice to Muslims.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Islam, especially Shia) A title for an important religious leader descended from the Prophet Muhammad's family.↗ Example: The imam led the prayers at the mosque on Friday.↗ · The imam visited our school to talk about Islam.↗ · Muslims stand in rows behind the imam when they pray.↗ · The imam gave a talk about kindness to neighbours.↗ · The family asked the imam to help with the wedding.↗ · An imam studies the Qur'an for many years.↗ · Our RE class asked the imam questions about Ramadan.↗

imbibe — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal or old use) To drink, especially a liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To take in and absorb ideas, feelings or knowledge.↗ Example: The old man imbibed the cool water.↗ · We imbibe knowledge from good books.↗ · Crimthann imbibed all the justice of that remark.↗

imbue — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To fill something with a quality or feeling.↗ Example: This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

imbued — Everyday, meaning 1: To soak or fill something with a liquid, colour or quality, such as poison or magic.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fill a person with a feeling or quality, as in «imbued with courage».↗ Example: She imbued the robe with poison.↗ · The walls were imbued with the smell of smoke.↗ · The queen was imbued with kindness.↗ · It should probably be understood on one level as a reference to the ten digits of the decimal numeral system, though as we shall see, these Sefirot Belimah are imbued with metaphysical significance beyond mere numerals.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

imitate — Everyday, meaning 1: To copy the way someone speaks, moves or behaves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make something look or sound like something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To follow someone as an example: «imitate your heroes».↗ Example: Parrots can imitate human voices.↗ · My brother imitates the teacher's voice to make us laugh.↗ · Young children imitate what they see adults do.↗ · Some harmless flies imitate wasps to scare off birds.↗ · The clarinet imitates the cuckoo in this piece of music.↗ · Christians try to imitate Jesus in kindness.↗ · "How should I?"↗ I replied, resolved to imitate the princess in her fidelity.↗

imitation — Everyday, meaning 1: A copy of something, often a fake that looks like the real thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Copying someone's voice or actions, often to be funny.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Not real but made to look real: «imitation leather».↗ Example: The ring is only an imitation; it isn't real gold.↗ · He does a great imitation of a chicken.↗ · Babies learn to talk by imitation.↗ · The chair is covered in imitation leather.↗ · It was a poor imitation of the famous painting.↗ · «Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,» said Gran.↗ · But they all with one voice shouted out that the Clown's imitation was much more true to life.↗

immaculate — Everyday, meaning 1: Perfectly clean and tidy, with no dirt or mess at all.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Without any mistake; perfect: an immaculate performance.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) Without sin.↗ e.g. Catholic Christians believe in the «Immaculate Conception», that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the start of her life.↗ Example: Grandma's kitchen is always immaculate.↗ · His uniform was immaculate on the first day of school.↗ · The second-hand bike was in immaculate condition.↗ · The gymnast gave an immaculate performance and scored ten.↗ · Her handwriting is immaculate.↗ · Catholics celebrate the Immaculate Conception on 8 December.↗ · After an hour of tidying, my room looked immaculate — for one day.↗

immaterial — Everyday, meaning 1: Immaterial means not important or not relevant to what is being talked about.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Immaterial also means not made of matter, with no physical body, like a spirit.↗ Example: Whether the car is red or blue is immaterial; it needs fixing.↗ · The cost is immaterial if it saves a life.↗ · In this problem, the colour of the bags is immaterial.↗ · Christians believe the soul is immaterial.↗ · Whether he meant to break it is immaterial; it is broken.↗ · Ghosts in stories are often immaterial and walk through walls.↗ · "If you really can cure, it is immaterial when you do it.↗ · Nonetheless, English translators have usually shied away from the this-worldly symbolism of the ‘Holy Wind’, much preferring immaterial ‘Spirit’ either out of theological embarrassment or deference to tradition.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · 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)↗

immature — Everyday, meaning 1: Immature means behaving in a silly, childish way, not as sensible as you should be for your age.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) Immature means not fully grown or developed yet, like an immature bird or fruit.↗ Example: It's immature to laugh when someone falls over.↗ · Stop being so immature and say sorry.↗ · Immature gulls have brown feathers.↗ · Immature fruit is hard and sour.↗ · The tadpoles are immature frogs.↗ · He was too immature to look after a puppy.↗