Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To place in a grave or tomb; bury.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A common prefix meaning ‘between’ or ‘among’ or ‘during,’ occurring in many English words taken from the Latin, either directly or through Middle English and Old French or French forms (being then in Middle English also
enter- , and so retained in some modern forms: seeenter- ), or formed in English on the Latin model. - To place in the earth and cover with it.
- Specifically To bury; inhume; place in a grave, or, by extension, in a tomb of any kind.
- A Latin preposition meaning ‘between’ or ‘among,’ used in some Latin phrases occurring in English books, as in
inter nos (between or among ourselves), inter arma silent leges (laws are silent among arms—that is, in time of war), etc., and very common as a prefix. Seeinter- . - A Middle English form of
enter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
bury in agrave .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb place in a grave or tomb
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm not really into what I call inter-faith dialogue.
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I'm interested in what I call inter-faith projects.
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You take the first part of the word "inter" as in "inter-provincial".
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Ilike photographs that aggressively contextualize interesting things and people in interesting contexts.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » 3 Rules for Photography 2010
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But people indulge in inter-personal comparison all the time, and there are few people who stick to their own unadulterated Utility functions, many people interpolate socially acceptable behaviour into what they really want, maybe that is the cause of "Mid-Life Crises" and the new "Quarter Life Crises", a conflict between Individual Utility Schedules and some subjectively observed Social Utility Schedule.
Surveys and Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Those stories are almost exclusively in interesting places, or at least around interesting people.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » 3 Rules for Photography 2010
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As far as the distributional effects of paying less for capital investment in inter-metropolitan transport capacity through HSR than through additional highway lanes and investment in additional airport capacity, it seems as if the discussion is proceeding in a vacuum, acting as if interstate roads and airports do not receive capital subsidies from taxpayers.
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Mr. Manos will no doubt try to persuade other European banks to open up overnight and very short-term inter-bank lines of credit as a first step on the path back to normality, but it is likely to be a long process.
A Good Day For Greek Banking Simon Nixon 2011
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The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency.
We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor Will Hutton 2010
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In it, Dulles makes the point Christianity's original experts on Islam were neither impartial scholars nor specialists in inter-faith dialogue, but medieval apologists - writers from the 7th through the 14th centuries who articulated a strong defense of Christianity in light of Islamic critique.
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