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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: industrial - inedibility</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="industrial"> industrial, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of or resulting from industry or productive labor. Ex. industrial products. <DD> 2. having many industries. Ex. industrial nations. <DD> 3. engaged in or connected with industries, trades, or manufactures. Ex. industrial activity, an industrial exhibition. Industrial workers work at trades or in factories. An industrial school teaches trades. <DD> 4. of or having to do with the workers in industries. Ex. industrial insurance. <DD> 5. for use in industry. Ex. industrial machines. <DD> 6. much greater or much more than normally is needed or used. Ex. Laurie ... put a lock on the bedroom door: "an industrial-strength Segal lock," he says with amusement (New York Magazine). <DD>noun 1. a worker in some industry. <DD> 2. an owner or a manager of an industrial enterprise. <DD> 3. a stock, bond, etc., of an industrial enterprise. <DD> 4. rock music that has amplified instrumental effects resembling machinery and little melody. Ex. On Meantime, the group's major label debut, industrial, hardcore and metal get smelted down into one gnarly slab (Michael Azerrad). adv. industrially. </DL> <A NAME="industrialarts"> industrial arts,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the practical arts employed in industry. <DD> 2. these arts as taught in schools. </DL> <A NAME="industrialdesign"> industrial design,<DL COMPACT><DD> the profession of planning and developing industrial techniques and of designing equipment, especially equipment which is mass-produced. </DL> <A NAME="industrialdesigner"> industrial designer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a specialist in industrial design. Ex. The industrial designer may ... plan a cabinet of the best possible design for a new type of refrigerator motor (Raymond Loewy). </DL> <A NAME="industrialdiamond"> industrial diamond,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any flawed or inferior diamond, such as bort or carbonado, used widely for industrial purposes. Ex. Industrial diamonds are ... the hardest substance known to man. <DD> 2. any similar material, made synthetically. </DL> <A NAME="industrialdisease"> industrial disease,<DL COMPACT><DD> a disease that occurs as a result of working in a particular industry. Ex. ... measures to prevent this grave malady of the lungs from being added to the catalogue of industrial diseases (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="industrialengineer"> industrial engineer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a specialist in industrial engineering. </DL> <A NAME="industrialengineering"> industrial engineering,<DL COMPACT><DD> the profession of planning techniques of working and the uses of machines in industry. </DL> <A NAME="industrialinsurance"> industrial insurance,<DL COMPACT><DD> a form of life insurance for industrial workers, with low weekly premiums. </DL> <A NAME="industrialise"> industrialise, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -ised, -ising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) industrialize. </DL> <A NAME="industrialism"> industrialism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a system of social and economic organization in which large industries are very important and industrial activities or interests prevail. Ex. In 1765 Watt's steam engine was constructed, a very important date in the history of industrialism (H. G. Wells). </DL> <A NAME="industrialist"> industrialist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who manages or owns an industrial enterprise. Ex. The promise of high profits also saw a new type of industrialist rise to prominence (Time). <DD> 2. an industrial worker. </DL> <A NAME="industrialization"> industrialization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the development of large industries as an important feature in a country or economic system. Ex. Productivity has become a major concern wherever men seek to raise the level of living by means of industrialization (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="industrialize"> industrialize, verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to make industrial; develop large industries as an important feature in (a country or economic system). Ex. Industrialized nations consume natural resources at several times the rate of agrarian countries (Newsweek). <DD> 2. to organize as an industry. <DD>v.i. to become industrial; develop large industries. Ex. Communist China must increase its foreign trade to industrialize (Harper's). noun industrializer. </DL> <A NAME="industrialmedicine"> industrial medicine,<DL COMPACT><DD> a branch of preventive medicine dealing with the sanitary and working conditions of factories. </DL> <A NAME="industrialmelanism"> industrial melanism,<DL COMPACT><DD> the natural selection of darker genetic forms of certain species of moths in industrial areas, caused by evolutionary adaptation to the sooty environment. </DL> <A NAME="industrialpark"> industrial park,<DL COMPACT><DD> a section or district removed from or outside a city, planned and built, especially for manufacturing plants, warehouses, and other industrial concerns. Ex. The impressive ... plant ... covers 73,800 square feet on a donated site in a modern industrial park (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="industrialpsychologist"> industrial psychologist,<DL COMPACT><DD> a specialist in industrial psychology. Ex. Industrial psychologists try to understand how workers behave on the job, why they behave as they do, and how to make jobs more rewarding to workers, to industry, and to society (Patricia C. Smith). </DL> <A NAME="industrialpsychology"> industrial psychology,<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of psychological methods in business and industry to improve the selection and performance of workers, the methods of supervising them, the quality of working conditions, the effectiveness of jobs, and to deal with other related matters. </DL> <A NAME="industrialrelations"> industrial relations,<DL COMPACT><DD> relationship between labor and management. </DL> <A NAME="industrialrevolution"> Industrial Revolution,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850. <DD> 2. the period during which this change occurred. Ex. A man who lived at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was only dimly aware that science was changing his world (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="industrialschool"> industrial school,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a school for teaching one or more branches of industry; trade school. <DD> 2. such a school for neglected or delinquent children. </DL> <A NAME="industrialunion"> industrial union,<DL COMPACT><DD> a labor union of all persons in the same industry without regard to the various crafts or jobs; vertical union. </DL> <A NAME="industrious"> industrious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. working hard and steadily; diligent. Ex. An industrious student usually has good grades. (SYN) assiduous, active. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) showing intelligent or skillful work. <DD> 3. (Obsolete.) zealous. adv. industriously. noun industriousness. </DL> <A NAME="industry"> industry, noun, pl. -tries.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any branch of business, trade, or manufacture. Ex. The steel industry and the automobile industry employ hundreds of thousands of men. <DD> 2. all such enterprises taken collectively. Ex. Canadian industry is expanding. <DD> 3. systematic work or labor; continual employment in some useful work. <DD> 4. steady effort; busy application. Ex. Industry and thrift favor success. (SYN) diligence. <DD> 5. (Obsolete.) skill; cleverness; ingenuity. </DL> <A NAME="industrywide"> industrywide, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> covering or embracing an entire industry. Ex. On the other hand, he said, there has been industrywide price cutting (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="indwell"> indwell, verb, -dwelt or -dwelled, -dwelling.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to dwell in; inhabit. <DD>v.i. to have one's abode; dwell (in). noun indweller. </DL> <A NAME="indwelling"> indwelling, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dwelling within. Ex. ... she explained and justified her mistakes ... as well as she could to her indwelling enemy (Katherine Anne Porter). </DL> <A NAME="ine"> -ine (1),<DL COMPACT><DD> suffix forming adjectives from nouns. of; like; like that of. Ex. Crystalline = of crystal. Elephantine = like an elephant. </DL> <A NAME="ine"> -ine (2),<DL COMPACT><DD> suffix forming nouns. (Chemistry.) denoting names of basic substances and the halogen elements, as in aniline, chlorine, fluorine. See -in. </DL> <A NAME="inearth"> inearth, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bury. Ex. Refusing rest, Till I had seen in holy ground inearth'd My poor lost brother (Robert Southey). </DL> <A NAME="inebriant"> inebriant, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. intoxicating. <DD>noun an intoxicant. </DL> <A NAME="inebriate"> inebriate, verb, -ated, -ating, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to make drunk; intoxicate. Ex. Sweet wines do not so much inebriate and overturn the brain as others (Philemon Holland). <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to intoxicate mentally; excite beyond self-control; stupefy. Ex. A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity (Benjamin Disraeli). <DD>noun a habitual drunken person. <DD>adj. intoxicated; drunk. Ex. (Figurative.) Inebriate with the deep delight, Dim grew the Pilgrim's swimming sight (Robert Southey). </DL> <A NAME="inebriated"> inebriated, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> drunk or intoxicated. </DL> <A NAME="inebriation"> inebriation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> drunkenness or intoxication. </DL> <A NAME="inebriety"> inebriety, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> drunkenness, especially habitual drunkenness. </DL> <A NAME="inebrious"> inebrious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> drunken or intoxicated. </DL> <A NAME="inedibility"> inedibility, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being inedible. </DL> <A HREF="inedible.dic">NEXT</A>