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internettroll
(by extension, originally, Internet slang) A person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion. [from late 20th c.]
interplanetär
Existing or occurring between planets.
interplanetarisk
Existing or occurring between planets.
interpolation
(mathematics, science) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
interpretator
(computing) A program that converts commands into machine language in real time rather than compiling it in advance. [1954]
interpunktera
(transitive) To add punctuation to.
interpunktion
A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences; examples include commas, hyphens, and stops (periods).
interreligiös
Involving members of different religions.
intervall
One of several ranges of numbers.
intervenera
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
intervjua
(intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
intervokalisk
(phonetics) Existing or occurring between vowels.
intet
Not any thing; no thing.
intetsägande
Lacking in taste or flavor.
intill
Next to; at the side of.
intilliggande
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
intimitet
(uncountable, countable) Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, often but not necessarily involving sexuality.
intonation
(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
intoxikation
A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
inträda
(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
inträde
A cover charge.
inträdesavgift
The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
inträdesprov
(countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
inträffa
To happen; to occur.
intramuskulär
Inside a muscle or the muscles.
intrång
The forcible inclusion or entry of an external group or individual; the act of intruding.
intränga
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
inträngande
Intrusive on one's privacy, rights, sphere of activity, etc.
intravenös
Inside the veins.
intressant
Arousing or holding the attention or interest of someone.
intressent
(business) A person or organisation with a legitimate interest (a stake) in a given situation, action or enterprise.
intressera
(obsolete, often, _, impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
intrig
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
intrigera
(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
intrigmakare
One who plots or schemes, who formulates devious plans.
intrigör
A device which can be used to move, arrange or operate something.
intrikat
Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
introducera
To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally. [from 14th c.]
introduktion
The act or process of introducing.
introspektion
(psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states.
introvert
(psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an introvert: thoughtful, reflective.
intuitiv
Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
intyg
A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
inunder
On or to a lower storey.
inuti
Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference.
invadera
(transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
invaderande
(military, also, figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.
invalid
(offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
invånarantal
(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
invånare
An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.
invand
Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.
invända
(intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
invändning
Opposition, especially in speech.
invandra
(intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.
invandrare
A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
invandring
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
invärtesläkare
(medicine) A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
invasion
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
invasiv
(biology) Of an animal or plant: that grows (especially uncontrollably) in environments which do not harbour natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
invecklad
Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
invektiv
Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
inventarie
(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
inventarieförteckning
(operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
inventarier
(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
inventera
(transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.
inventering
(operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
invention
(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
inverkan
(figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect.
invers
(geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion.
investerare
A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
inviga
(transitive) To open (a building, for example) to public use.
invigd
With knowledge of; party to; let in on. [from late 14th c.]
invigning
(countable) The event, or the ceremony celebrating it, marking an official completion, opening, or beginning.
invitera
(transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
involution
(mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
involvera
(intransitive) To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
involverad
Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
involvering
The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
inympa
(transitive) To add one substance to another.
iögonfallande
Obvious or easy to notice.
Ior
(figuratively) An excessively negative or pessimistic person.
IP-adress
(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.
iPod
(by extension) Any portable personal MP3 player or similar device.
IQ
Initialism of intelligence quotient.
Irak
A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.
irakier
A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.
irakisk
Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.
Iran
A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Islamic Republic of Iran. Capital: Tehran.
iranier
A person from Iran or of Iranian descent.
iransk
(linguistics) Pertaining to the Iranian languages or their speakers.
Irene
A en given name, in regular use since the 19th century.
iridium
(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.
iriserande
(not comparable) Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
irisering
The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.
irisk
Pertaining to the Irish language.
iriska
Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
irländare
A man from Ireland.
irländsk
Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
ironisk
(of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
irrelevans
Lack of relationship with the topic at hand; lack of importance.
irrelevant
(archaic) Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
irreparabel
Incapable of being repaired, amended, cured or rectified; unrepairable.
irreversibel
Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
irrgång
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
irritation
(uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
irritationsmoment
(uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
irritera
(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
irriterad
Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked (an annoyance); vexed.
irriterande
Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
irrlära
(by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.
irrlärig
Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.
irrlärighet
(uncountable) The quality of being heterodox.
is
Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names.
Isabella
A en given name.
Isai
(biblical character) The son of Obed and the father of king David.
Isaj
(biblical character) The son of Obed and the father of king David.
isär
Excluded from consideration.
isberg
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
isbit
Any small piece of ice used for cooling drinks, larger than crushed ice, and regardless of their shape.
isbrytare
One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
iscensätta
(transitive) To arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect
iscensättning
The repetition of an earlier (usually historic) event, as a performance or social event.
Isebel
(biblical character) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings), and who incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.
isglass
A frozen snack consisting of flavored ice or juice in a tube.
isglasspinne
(chiefly, _, US, Canada) Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving.
ishockey
(North America) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
ishus
A deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice or snow; sometimes also used to store food at low temperature.
isig
Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in ice; cold; frosty.
ISIS
A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate. [from 2013]
isk
Of or pertaining to; an adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. (Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a, -n is used instead.)
iskall
(simile) Very cold.
iskällare
A deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice or snow; sometimes also used to store food at low temperature.
islam
A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.
Islamabad
The capital city of Pakistan, located within the Islamabad Capital Territory.
islamisk
Of, pertaining to, originating in, characteristic of, or deriving from Muslims or Islam.
islamist
A Muslim who espouses Islamic fundamentalist beliefs. [from 1980s]
islamistisk
Motivated by fundamentalist Muslim beliefs, particularly in the political sphere. [from 1980s]
islamsk
Of, pertaining to, originating in, characteristic of, or deriving from Muslims or Islam.
Island
An island and country in the North Atlantic Ocean in Europe.
isländsk
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
isländska
A person from Iceland or of Icelandic descent.
isländskt
Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
ism
Used to form names of a tendency of action, behaviour, condition, opinion, or state belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology, or principle or lack thereof.
Ismael
(Abrahamism, biblical character) The eldest son of Abraham and his wife's handmaiden Hagar who were cast out after the birth of Isaac; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs via the Ishmaelites.
isolator
(electricity) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
isolera
(transitive) To protect from intrusion by enclosing in a rope or other barrier.
isolerad
Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little regard for others opinions or prejudices; provincial.
isolering
(electricity) a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
isotop
(nuclear physics) Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. Thus, isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number.
isotropi
(geometry, physics) The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.

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