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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
Antony Gormley

Meaning of "inert" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INERT

From Latin iners unskilled, from in-1 + ars skill.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INERT

inert  [ɪnˈɜːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INERT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inert is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INERT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inert in the English dictionary

The first definition of inert in the dictionary is having no inherent ability to move or to resist motion. Other definition of inert is inactive, lazy, or sluggish. Inert is also having only a limited ability to react chemically; unreactive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INERT


advert
ˈædvɜːt
alert
əˈlɜːt
concert
ˈkɒnsɜːt
convert
kənˈvɜːt
dessert
dɪˈzɜːt
dirt
dɜːt
expert
ˈɛkspɜːt
flirt
flɜːt
girt
ɡɜːt
hurt
hɜːt
insert
ɪnˈsɜːt
noninert
ˌnɒnɪnˈɜːt
shirt
ʃɜːt
skirt
skɜːt
squirt
skwɜːt
sweatshirt
ˈswɛtˌʃɜːt
upskirt
ˈʌpˌskɜːt
vert
vɜːt
wert
wɜːt
wort
wɜːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INERT

inerrancy
inerrant
inert gas
inertia
inertia force
inertia selling
inertia-reel seat belt
inertial
inertial confinement fusion
inertial force
inertial fusion
inertial guidance
inertial mass
inertial navigation
inertial observer
inertial reference frame
inertial system
inertially
inertly
inertness

WORDS THAT END LIKE INERT

albert
assert
Colbert
couvert
covert
desert
donnert
Ebert
exert
gert
gilbert
Herbert
in concert
lambert
on the alert
pervert
revert
Robert
Rupert
Schubert

Synonyms and antonyms of inert in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INERT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inert» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inert

Translation of «inert» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INERT

Find out the translation of inert to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inert from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inert» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不动的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inerte
570 millions of speakers

English

inert
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अक्रिय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خاملة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

инертный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inerte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inerte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lengai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unbeweglich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

全く動かない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

움직이지 않는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inert
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trơ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atıl
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inerte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obojętny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інертний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inert
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αδρανές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

inerte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inert
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inert

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INERT»

The term «inert» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.314 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of inert
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INERT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inert» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inert» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inert

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10 QUOTES WITH «INERT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inert.
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Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
2
Bradley Chicho
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
3
Shirley Chisholm
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
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David James Duncan
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
5
Antony Gormley
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
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Malaika Arora Khan
Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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John Lasseter
When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.
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Rupert Sheldrake
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.
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Don Tapscott
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
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Amy Waldman
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INERT»

Discover the use of inert in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inert and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fundamental Aspects of Inert Gases in Solids
Proceedings of a NATO ARW held at Bonas, France, September 16--22, 1990
S.E. Donnelly, J.H. Evans, 1991
2
Marking, Rendering Inert, and Licensing of Explosive ...
Feasibility and Practicability of Rendering Common Explosive Chemicals Inert. The purpose of this task is to explore and define methods, materials and technologies that have been used in the United States and internationally to render ...
‎1997
3
ADVANCES IN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
LEAVING GROUPS ON INERT METAL COMPLEXES WITH INHERENT OR INDUCED LABILITY GEOFFREY A. LAWRANCE Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia I. Introduction The terms labile ...
A. G. Sykes, 1990
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Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity
Reduction half-reaction: Voltaic Cells with Inert Electrodes In the half-cells described so far, the metal used as an electrode is also a reactant or a product in the redox reaction. Not all half-reactions involve a metal as a reactant or product,  ...
John Kotz, Paul Treichel, John Townsend, 2008
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Marine Fire Prevention, Firefighting and Fire Safety: A ...
INERT GAS SYSTEM FOR TANK VESSELS Although the inert gas system is not a fire extinguishing system, it is designed to prevent fires and explosions. With few exceptions, every tank ship of 100,000 or more dead weight tonnage, and with ...
Maritime Training Advisory Board (U.S.), United States. Maritime Administration, Robert J. Brady Company, 1994
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Elements of the P Block
As noted in Section 9.3, the Group III elements supply an excellent example of the inert pair effect. Their atoms have outer electron configurations of the type [ FIS]hs2hp1. where /; is the period number, and FIS is short for filled inner subshells.
Charlie Harding, Rob Janes, D. A. Johnson, 2002
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The Manipulation of Air-Sensitive Compounds
flush of inert gas through the box is often employed to minimize impurities in the glove box atmosphere. The most commonly used inert gas is nitrogen; but when the materials being handled form nitrides, helium or argon is used. Some very ...
Duward F. Shriver, 1986
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Process Utility Systems: Introduction to Design, Operation ...
The main inert gas used in industry is nitrogen, but argon and carbon dioxide are also worth mentioning. Other inert gases include helium, krypton, neon and xenon, but these generally have specialized applications and are not considered  ...
Jack Broughton, 1994
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The Kinetic Theory of Inert Dilute Plasmas
Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer, Leonardo Dagdug. Springer Series on ATOMIC, OPTICAL, AND PLASMA PHYSICS The Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics covers in a comprehensive manner theory and experiment in ...
Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer, Leonardo Dagdug, 2008
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Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests
Charles Selwitz, Shin Maekawa. Figure 1.4 Mortality of red and confused flour beetles exposed 24 hours at 26 °C to 1 % oxygen in nitrogen at four relative humidities (Jay, Arbogast, and Pearman 1971). P e r c e n t m o r t a l it y 9% RH 33% ...
Charles Selwitz, Shin Maekawa, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INERT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inert is used in the context of the following news items.
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Was disgraced sheriff Joey Kyle preparing for Armageddon?
While Epps said it was not a huge safety concern, he noted that the “highly sensitive” blasting caps were stored in proximity to the more inert C4 ... «Springfield News-Leader, Jul 15»
2
Yemenis are terrorized by a weapon made in America, sold to the …
... on the claim that all undetonated skeets will self-neutralize, noting that while the manufacturer says they are automatically rendered inert after ... «KUOW News and Information, Jul 15»
3
Rubén Rosario: Leaving weapons in airport luggage is not a case of …
... giant scissors, bear mace, a grenade-shaped vaping device, a gun knife, a novelty bomb, an inert firework display and a knuckle stunner.". «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Jul 15»
4
Can Montana's Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? - The New York …
... mixing it into a cement-like paste and returning it to the tunnels, rendering it inert. The rest would be contained in a way yet to be determined, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
5
The Placebo Effect – Beyond Analgesia | Brain Blogger
Placebos are drugs or other sources of treatment that are physically and pharmacologically inert, without any direct therapeutic effects. «Brain Blogger, Jul 15»
6
aboard one of the world's largest aircraft carriers - ABC
A lot of it's simulated drops, but we're doing some live small diameter inert ordinance up there." USS George Washington Photo: A technician ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
7
Painkiller Abuse Drives Drugmakers To Innovate PFE KMPH ENDP …
Previous approaches have focused on making the tablet uncrushable or on rendering it inert when broken. The first abuse-deterrent ... «Investor's Business Daily, Jul 15»
8
Global development's 'data intermediaries' and their critical role post …
“Data itself is many times inert,” Pipa told Devex. “It's intellectual capital that's sitting there waiting for its power to be unlocked.” And unlocking ... «Devex, Jul 15»
9
A Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique
"Since the graphene surface of the GLC is inert, it does not adsorb or otherwise perturb the natural state of our nanoparticles." Working at ... «Product Design & Development, Jul 15»
10
Experimental & Molecular Medicine - Acute exposure to silica …
Surface modifications of silica nanoparticles are crucial for their inert versus proinflammatory and immunomodulatory properties. «Nature.com, Jul 15»

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