icu
- n a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care
id
- n a state in the Rocky Mountains
- n a card or badge used to identify the bearer
- n (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity
id al-adha
- n the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity
ida
- n an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank
ida m. tarbell
- n United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944)
ida minerva tarbell
- n United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944)
ida tarbell
- n United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944)
iddm
- n severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
idea
- n the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
it was not a good idea - n your intention; what you intend to do
the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces - n a personal view
he has an idea that we don't like him - n an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
a rough idea how long it would take - n (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it
ideal gas
- n a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
ideal solid
- n any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
idealisation
- n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- n something that exists only as an idea
- n a portrayal of something as ideal