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initialism or ice
- In Case of Emergency
- InterCityExpress?
- internal combustion engine
- in-car entertainment
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noun
- The act of coming in; arrival
adjective
- coming (or about to come) in
- succeeding to an office
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noun
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
verb
- To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
- To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
- To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- To be cut, notched, or dented.
- To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- To contract; to bargain or covenant.
See w:Indent, the Wikipedia article on indent
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noun - The interior part of a country. Shakespeare
adjective - Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
- From regions to the distant main. Cowper.
- Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc.
- Confined to a country or state; domestic; not foreing; as, an inland bill of exchange. See Exchange.
adverb Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook.
- The greatest waves of population have rolled from the east. S. Turner.
(webster)
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verb - To yoke oxen.
- 2004 H Rider Haggard. Finished p.39 Kessinger Publishing.ISBN 1419119745
::"I came down from the tree like a frightened wildcat and ran to the wagon thinking hard as I went. The Basutos were after us meaning to attack us as soon as there was sufficient light. There was no time to the oxen""
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verb (rfc-level, Verb at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
(interfer, ing)
- (intransitive) to get involved or involve oneself causing disturbance
- I always try not to with other people"s personal affairs.
- (intransitive) (physics) (of waves) to be correlated with each other when overlap, overlapped or superpose, superposed
- Correlated waves to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.
- Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations the listener hears nothing but noise.
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noun
- A distance in space or in time.
- In music, an is the difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes and often refers to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- In mathematics an is a connected section of the real line. It may be empty or have a length of zero.
- (context, mostly, british) An intermission.
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
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noun
- A quotation mark
| | ironmonger |
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noun
- (context, mostly, UK) a retailer in iron goods and hardware
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