Interest (n.) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.
Interest (n.) To cause or permit to share.
Interest (n.) Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.
Interest (n.) Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.
Interest (n.) Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
Interest (n.) Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.
Interest (n.) Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.
Interest (n.) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.
Interested (v. t.) Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.
Interested (v. t.) Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
Interestedness (n.) The state or quality of being interested; selfishness.
Interesting (a.) Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news.
Interestingly (adv.) In an interesting manner.
Interestingness (n.) The condition or quality of being interesting.
Interfacial (a.) Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.
Interfascicular (a.) Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.
Interferant (n.) One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office.
Interfered (imp. & p. p.) of Interfere
Interfering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interfere
Interfere (v. i.) To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.
Interfere (v. i.) To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose.
Interfere (v. i.) To strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs; -- sometimes said of a human being, but usually of a horse; as, the horse interferes.
Interfere (v. i.) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2.
Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
Interference (n.) The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.
Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention.
Interferer (n.) One who interferes.
Interferingly (adv.) By or with interference.
Interflow (v. i.) To flow in.
Interfluent (a.) Alt. of Interfluous
Interfluous (a.) Flowing between or among; intervening.
Interfolded (p. a.) Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together.
Interfoliaceous (a.) At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.
Interfoliate (v. t.) To interleave.
Interfollicular (a.) Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland.
Interfretted (a.) Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.
Interfulgent (a.) Shining between.
Interfuse (v. t.) To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter.
Interfuse (v. t.) To spread through; to permeate; to pervade.
Interfuse (v. t.) To mix up together; to associate.
Interfusion (n.) The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused.
Interganglionic (a.) Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.
Interglobular (a.) Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine.
Intergraved (imp.) of Intergrave
Intergraved (p. p.) of Intergrave
Intergraven () of Intergrave
Intergraving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intergrave
Intergrave (v. t.) To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.
Interhemal (a.) Alt. of Interhaemal
Interhaemal (a.) Between the hemal arches or hemal spines.
Interhaemal (n.) An interhemal spine or cartilage.
Interhyal (a.) Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoidean arch.
Interhyal (n.) An interhyal ligament or cartilage.
Interim (n.) The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.
Interim (n.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.
Interior (a.) Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
Interior (a.) Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country.
Interior (n.) That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
Interior (n.) The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
Interiority (n.) State of being interior.
Interiorly (adv.) Internally; inwardly.
Interjacence (n.) Alt. of Interjacency
Interjacency (n.) The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between.
Interjacent (a.) Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles.
Interjaculate (v. t.) To ejaculate parenthetically.
Interjangle (v. i.) To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily.
Interjected (imp. & p. p.) of Interject
Interjecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interject
Interject (v. t.) To throw in between; to insert; to interpose.
Interject (v. i.) To throw one's self between or among; to come between; to interpose.
Interjection (n.) The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
Interjection (n.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation.
Interjectional (a.) Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark.
Interjectional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an interjection; consisting of natural and spontaneous exclamations.
Interjectionalize (v. t.) To convert into, or to use as, an interjection.
Interjectionally (adv.) In an interjectional manner.
Interjectionary (a.) Interjectional.
Interjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Interjoin
Interjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interjoin
Interjoin (v. t.) To join mutually; to unite.
Interjoist (n.) The space or interval between two joists.
Interjoist (n.) A middle joist or crossbeam.
Interjunction (n.) A mutual joining.
Interknit (v. t.) To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.
Interknow (v. t.) To know mutually.
Interknowledge (n.) Mutual knowledge or acquaintance.
Interlaced (imp. & p. p.) of Interlace
Interlacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interlace
Interlace (v. t. & i.) To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.
Interlacement (n.) The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
Interlamellar (a.) Alt. of Interlaminar
Interlaminar (a.) Between lammellae or laminae; as, interlamellar spaces.
Interlaminated (a.) Placed between, or containing, laminae or plates.
Interlamination (n.) The state of being interlaminated.
Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.
Interlarded (imp. & p. p.) of Interlard
Interlarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interlard
Interlard (v. t.) To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean.
Interlard (v. t.) Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as, to interlard a conservation with oaths or allusions.