📖 I — The English dictionary · page 6

immaturity — Everyday, meaning 1: Behaving in a silly or childish way that is not right for your age.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not being fully grown or developed yet, as with a young animal, plant or fruit.↗ Example: Laughing when someone falls over shows immaturity.↗ · The teacher said his rude joke was a sign of immaturity.↗ · Because of the bird's immaturity, its feathers were still grey.↗ · The immaturity of the apples meant they were sour.↗ · Everyone shows some immaturity sometimes; we learn as we grow.↗ · The coach worried about the young team's immaturity under pressure.↗

immeasurable — Everyday, meaning 1: Too great or large to be measured, counted or known exactly.↗ Example: The giant showed immeasurable strength.↗ · The sea had an immeasurable depth.↗ · The sunbeam crossed an immeasurable path.↗

immediate — Everyday, meaning 1: Immediate means happening at once, with no delay.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Immediate means nearest in place, time or relationship: your immediate family is your parents, brothers and sisters.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Immediate means needing attention now: an immediate danger.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Immediate can also mean direct, coming straight from the person or thing itself with no go-between.↗ Example: The fire needs immediate action — call 999!↗ · The medicine had an immediate effect.↗ · Only immediate family came to the small wedding.↗ · There was no immediate danger, so we stayed calm.↗ · Leave the building immediately when the alarm rings.↗ · We live in the immediate area of the school.↗ · Her reply was immediate: «Yes!»↗ · The great bulk of them are not the immediate work of Æsop.↗ · 23) The ancient philosophers maintained that if God is the first cause, and He is necessarily, He, the immediate effect of Him, as an absolute unity, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

immediately — Everyday, meaning 1: Immediately means at once, right now, without waiting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Immediately means directly next to, with nothing in between: «immediately behind the school».↗ Example: Leave the building immediately when the fire alarm rings.↗ · Come here immediately!↗ · Tell an adult immediately if someone is hurt.↗ · Wash cuts immediately with clean water.↗ · The shop is immediately next to the bank.↗ · He fell asleep immediately.↗ · Immediately after lunch we went outside.↗ · The Eagle accepted the Kite immediately.↗ · Immediately Joseph sat down and wrote down the sefer Yetzirah at the dictation of B'"usy."↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Immediately Joseph sat down and wrote down these words at the dictation of ty"Bsy [Ben Sira], and he wrote them in five books on the earth : Sefer Yetzirah, etc." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

immense — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely large or great in size, amount or degree.↗ Example: The blue whale is an immense animal.↗ · We felt immense relief when the dog came home.↗ · Space is immense.↗ · The castle had an immense wooden door.↗ · Building the bridge took an immense amount of work.↗ · The giant's footprint was immense.↗ · It seemed as if something immense had been thrown over him.↗ · He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

immensely — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely; very much, to a great degree.↗ Example: I enjoyed the film immensely.↗ · She was immensely proud of her brother.↗ · The book is immensely popular with children.↗ · The stars are immensely far away.↗ · Toad was immensely rich and immensely boastful.↗ · The trip helped us immensely.↗ · Once upon a time there lived a King who was immensely rich.↗

immerse — Everyday, meaning 1: To put something completely under water or another liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become fully involved in something, so you think of nothing else, as in «immersed in a book».↗ Example: Immerse the egg in the salty water.↗ · Do not immerse the kettle in water.↗ · He was so immersed in his book he missed the bus.↗ · Immerse the cube and read the new water level.↗ · We were immersed in the noise of the city.↗ · Pupils immerse themselves in the Viking topic.↗

immersion — Everyday, meaning 1: Immersion is putting something completely under water or another liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) Baptism by immersion means dipping a person fully under water, as some churches do.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Being deeply involved in something, such as learning a language by living in it: «language immersion».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK, Ireland) An immersion (heater) is an electric heater in a water tank that heats hot water.↗ Example: Immersion in water makes a sponge heavy.↗ · We measured the stone's volume by immersion in a jug of water.↗ · Some churches baptise by full immersion in a pool.↗ · My cousin goes to a French immersion school in Canada.↗ · Turn on the immersion if you want a hot bath.↗ (UK, Ireland)↗ · The book's immersion in the world of dragons kept me reading.↗ · Total immersion is a fast way to learn a language.↗

immigrant — Everyday, meaning 1: An immigrant is a person who has come to live in a new country from another country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, immigrant describes people or families who have moved to a new country.↗ Example: My grandparents were immigrants from Italy.↗ · Many immigrants arrived in New York by ship.↗ · The immigrant family opened a bakery in our town.↗ · Immigrants bring their food, music and languages.↗ · She is a first-generation immigrant; her children were born here.↗ · Out of 30 pupils, 9 were born in another country.↗ · Australia has welcomed immigrants from all over the world.↗

immigration — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming to live in a new country from another country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The place at an airport or border where officials check passports and visas: «go through immigration».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The rules and the government department that control who may come to live in a country.↗ Example: Many families in our class came here through immigration.↗ · We waited a long time at immigration at the airport.↗ · The immigration officer checked our passports.↗ · Immigration helped build cities like Toronto and Sydney.↗ · Ellis Island was where immigration to New York was checked.↗ · Grandma remembers her immigration to Australia by ship.↗

imminence — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The state of being about to happen, or of being very near.↗ (The text uses it where "immanence", God's presence within the world, is meant.).↗ Example: Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence.↗ (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)↗

imminent — Everyday, meaning 1: About to happen very soon, often something bad or dangerous.↗ Example: Dark clouds showed that rain was imminent.↗ · The firefighters said the house was in imminent danger.↗ · The baby's arrival is imminent.↗ · An announcement about the new playground is imminent.↗ · The ship's captain warned of an imminent storm.↗ · With the bell imminent, everyone packed their bags.↗ · Mountains and forests were in flames, rivers and streams were dried up, and a general conflagration was imminent.↗ · Wise men lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish is an imminent ruin.↗ (Writings PRO.10.14, JPS 1917)↗

imminently — Everyday, meaning 1: Very soon; about to happen at any moment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Used in news and official speech for something expected almost immediately: «the report is due imminently».↗ Example: The baby is expected imminently, so Dad keeps his phone on.↗ · The storm is due to hit the coast imminently.↗ · The train is arriving imminently at platform two.↗ · The results will be announced imminently.↗ · The volcano was not imminently going to erupt, the scientists said.↗ · Our new puppy is arriving imminently!↗

immobile — Everyday, meaning 1: Not moving at all; perfectly still.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not able to move or be moved, for example because of an injury, illness or because something is fixed in place.↗ Example: The cat sat immobile, watching the mouse hole.↗ · After the accident he was immobile for a month.↗ · Plants are immobile, so they can't run from danger.↗ · The statue-like guard stood immobile at the palace gate.↗ · The heavy wardrobe was immobile; we couldn't shift it.↗ · In musical statues you must stay immobile when the music stops.↗ · The eagle-eyed man lifted a face, thin and sharp as though it had been carven on the wind, and he stared forward with an immobile intentness.↗

immobilise — Everyday, meaning 1: To stop someone or something from moving or working.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (first aid) To keep an injured body part still, for example with a splint or sling, so it does not get worse.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To stop a vehicle from being started, as with a car alarm or wheel clamp.↗ Example: The first-aider used a sling to immobilise my broken arm.↗ · The spider's bite immobilises the fly.↗ · Snow and ice immobilised the whole town.↗ · The car has a device that immobilises the engine if it's stolen.↗ · Don't move someone who might have hurt their neck; paramedics will immobilise it.↗ · The cold immobilised the lizard until the sun warmed it.↗

immobility — Everyday, meaning 1: Immobility is the state of not moving or not being able to move.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Immobility can mean keeping very still on purpose.↗ Example: The broken leg caused weeks of immobility.↗ · The rabbit froze in total immobility when the fox passed.↗ · Long immobility on a plane can be bad for your legs.↗ · His immobility made the guard think he was a statue.↗ · The statue's immobility amazed the toddler.↗ · Doctors try to keep patients moving to avoid immobility.↗

immortal — Everyday, meaning 1: Never dying; living for ever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Remembered or famous for ever, like a great writer or song.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A being, such as a god in a myth, who never dies.↗ Example: The Greek gods were believed to be immortal.↗ · In the story, the vampire was immortal and never grew older.↗ · Nobody is immortal, so we should take care of our health.↗ · The poet's words became immortal.↗ · Achilles was nearly immortal except for his heel.↗ · Christians believe that every person has an immortal soul.↗ · The immortals lived on top of Mount Olympus.↗ · The Muses were honoured alike by mortals and immortals.↗

immortality — Everyday, meaning 1: Immortality is living forever and never dying.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In stories, it is the magic gift of gods and some special people who never grow old or die.↗ Example: The prince wanted immortality more than anything.↗ · Only the gods were believed to have immortality.↗ · Many tales tell of a search for immortality.↗

immune — Everyday, meaning 1: Immune means protected from an illness, so you cannot easily catch it, usually because your body has fought it before or you had a vaccine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Immune to something means not affected by it (immune to criticism).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Immune from something means officially free from it (immune from punishment).↗ Example: After having chickenpox, most people are immune to it.↗ · Your immune system fights germs that get into your body.↗ · Vaccines help people become immune to some diseases.↗ · Eating well and sleeping well help keep your immune system strong.↗ · The teacher seemed immune to our excuses.↗ · Some bacteria have become immune to certain medicines.↗

immunity — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) The body's ability to fight off a disease so that you do not catch it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) Protection from being punished or from a law: «diplomatic immunity».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Freedom from something unpleasant.↗ Example: Vaccines help your body build immunity to diseases.↗ · After chickenpox, most people have immunity for life.↗ · Ambassadors have diplomatic immunity.↗ · Washing hands and sleeping well support your immunity.↗ · In the game, the person holding the ball has immunity.↗ · Herd immunity happens when enough people are protected from a disease.↗

immure — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old) To shut someone up in a prison or a closed place, as if behind walls.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To shut yourself away from other people.↗ Example: Toad was immured in the darkest dungeon of the castle.↗ · The prisoner was immured in a tiny cell.↗ · The writer immured herself in her room to finish her book.↗ · In the legend, the princess was immured in a tower.↗ · He felt immured in the dull office all day.↗ · In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest was immured, and his hands and feet tied together with strips of bark.↗

immutably — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a way that can never change.↗

imp — Everyday, meaning 1: An imp is a small, mischievous devil or sprite in old stories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An imp is a naughty little child, said playfully.↗ Example: This is the imp's fault!↗ · The imp understood his business.↗ · Poor Iktomi cannot help being a little imp.↗

impact — Everyday, meaning 1: An impact is a strong hit of one thing against another: «the impact of the crash».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An impact is a strong effect or influence: «Exercise has a good impact on health.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To impact means to have an effect on something.↗ Example: The meteorite left a crater on impact.↗ · Litter has a bad impact on wildlife.↗ · Her speech made a big impact.↗ · The glass broke on impact.↗ · How does rain impact the crops?↗ · Seat belts reduce the impact of a crash.↗

impair — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To damage something or make it weaker or worse, as in «Loud noise can impair your hearing».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «impaired» (adjective) — weakened, as in «hearing impaired» or «visually impaired».↗ Example: Very loud music can impair your hearing.↗ · Being tired can impair your concentration.↗ · Smoke impairs your lungs.↗ · Our neighbour is visually impaired and has a guide dog.↗ · The fog impaired the driver's view.↗ · Drugs can impair your judgement.↗ · Yea, thou doest away with fear, and impairest devotion before God.↗ (Writings JOB.15.4, JPS 1917)↗