Instruction (n.) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
Instruction (n.) That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted
Instruction (n.) Precept; information; teachings.
Instruction (n.) Direction; order; command.
Instructional (a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, instruction; educational.
Instructive (a.) Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.
Instructor (n.) One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.
Instructress (n.) A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess.
Instrument (n.) That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.
Instrument (n.) A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument.
Instrument (n.) A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc.
Instrument (n.) One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent.
Instrument (v. t.) To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument; as, a sonata instrumented for orchestra.
Instrumental (a.) Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business.
Instrumental (a.) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music.
Instrumental (a.) Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms.
Instrumentalist (n.) One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
Instrumentalities (pl. ) of Instrumentality
Instrumentality (n.) The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
Instrumentally (adv.) By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
Instrumentally (adv.) With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied.
Instrumentalness (n.) Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality.
Instrumentary (a.) Instrumental.
Instrumentation (n.) The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
Instrumentation (n.) The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
Instrumentation (n.) The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect.
Instrumentist (n.) A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
Instyle (v. t.) To style.
Insuavity (n.) Want of suavity; unpleasantness.
Insubjection (n.) Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
Insubmergible (a.) Not capable of being submerged; buoyant.
Insubmission (n.) Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.
Insubordinate (a.) Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.
Insubordination (n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Insubstantial (a.) Unsubstantial; not real or strong.
Insubstantiality (n.) Unsubstantiality; unreality.
Insuccation (n.) The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.
Insuccess (n.) Want of success.
Insue (v. i.) See Ensue, v. i.
Insuetude (n.) The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.
Insufferable (a.) Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.
Insufferable (a.) Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.
Insufferably (adv.) In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
Insufficience (n.) Insufficiency.
Insufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
Insufficiency (n.) Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.
Insufficient (a.) Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality.
Insufficient (a.) Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.
Insufficiently (adv.) In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
Insufflation (n.) The act of breathing on or into anything
Insufflation (n.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
Insufflation (n.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Insuitable (a.) Unsuitable.
Insular (a.) Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
Insular (a.) Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices.
Insular (n.) An islander.
Insularity (n.) The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
Insularity (n.) Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.
Insularly (adv.) In an insular manner.
Insulary (a.) Insular.
Insulated (imp. & p. p.) of Insulate
Insulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insulate
Insulate (v. t.) To make an island of.
Insulate (v. t.) To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.
Insulate (v. t.) To prevent the transfer o/ electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.
Insulated (p. a.) Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; separated; unconnected; isolated; as, an insulated house or column.
Insulated (p. a.) Separated from other bodies by means of nonconductors of heat or electricity.
Insulated (p. a.) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; -- said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible.
Insulation (n.) The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
Insulation (n.) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.
Insulator (n.) One who, or that which, insulates.
Insulator (n.) The substance or body that insulates; a nonconductor.
Insulite (n.) An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
Insulous (a.) Abounding in islands.
Insulse (a.) Insipid; dull; stupid.
Insulsity (n.) Insipidity; stupidity; dullness.
Insult (v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Insult (v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
Insulted (imp. & p. p.) of Insult
Insulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insult
Insult (v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
Insult (v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
Insult (v. i.) To leap or jump.
Insult (v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
Insultable (a.) Capable of being insulted or affronted.
Insultation (n.) The act of insulting; abusive or insolent treatment; insult.
Insultation (n.) Exultation.
Insulter (n.) One who insults.
Insulting (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc.
Insultment (n.) Insolent treatment; insult.
Insume (v. t.) To take in; to absorb.
Insuperability (n.) The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
Insuperable (a.) Incapable of being passed over or surmounted; insurmountable; as, insuperable difficulties.
Insupportable (a.) Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.
Insupposable (a.) Incapable of being supposed; not supposable; inconceivable.
Insuppressible (a.) That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible.
Insuppressive (a.) Insuppressible.
Insurable (a.) Capable of being insured against loss, damage, death, etc.; proper to be insured.
Insurance (n.) The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.
Insurance (n.) The premium paid for insuring property or life.