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Intensives
- noun - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
Intersexes
- noun - one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
Interstate
- adjective - involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States; "Interstate Highway Commission"; "interstate highways"; "Interstate Commerce Commission"; "interstate commerce"
- one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States
Interstice
- noun - a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ; "the interstices of a network"
- small opening between things
Inversions
- noun - (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
- a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
- the act of turning inside out
- the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- the reversal of the normal order of words
- turning upside down; setting on end
Kate Smith
- noun - United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986)