Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - inspire
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Inspire
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(inspires, inspiring, inspired) 1. If someone or something inspires you to do something new or unusual, they make you want to do it. Our challenge is to motivate those voters and inspire them to join our cause... VERB: V n to-inf 2. If someone or something inspires you, they give you new ideas and a strong feeling of enthusiasm. Jimi Hendrix inspired a generation of guitarists. VERB: V n 3. If a book, work of art, or action is inspired by something, that thing is the source of the idea for it. The book was inspired by a real person, namely Tamara de Treaux. ...a political murder inspired by the same nationalist conflicts now wrecking the country. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n, V-ed • -inspired ...Mediterranean-inspired ceramics in bright yellow and blue... COMB in ADJ 4. Someone or something that inspires a particular emotion or reaction in people makes them feel this emotion or reaction. The car’s performance quickly inspires confidence. VERB: V n
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verb (~d; inspiring) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French ~r, from Latin inspirare, from in- + spirare to breathe Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural inspiration b. to exert an animating, enlivening, or exalting influence on was particularly ~d by the Romanticists c. to spur on ; impel, motivate threats don't necessarily ~ people to work d. affect seeing the old room again ~d him with nostalgia 2. a. archaic to breathe or blow into or upon b. archaic to infuse (as life) by breathing 3. a. to communicate to an agent supernaturally b. to draw forth or bring out thoughts ~d by a visit to the cathedral 4. inhale 1 5. a. bring about, occasion the book was ~d by his travels in the Far East b. incite 6. to spread (rumor) by indirect means or through the agency of another intransitive verb inhale • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 stimulate or arouse (a person) to esp. creative activity, esp. by supposed divine or supernatural agency (your faith inspired him; inspired by God). 2 a (usu. foll. by with) animate (a person) with a feeling. b (usu. foll. by into) instil (a feeling) into a person etc. c (usu. foll. by in) create (a feeling) in a person. 3 prompt; give rise to (the poem was inspired by the autumn). 4 (as inspired adj.) a (of a work of art etc.) as if prompted by or emanating from a supernatural source; characterized by inspiration (an inspired speech). b (of a guess) intuitive but accurate. 5 (also absol.) breathe in (air etc.); inhale. Derivatives inspiratory adj. inspiredly adv. inspirer n. inspiring adj. inspiringly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF inspirer f. L inspirare breathe in (as IN-(2), spirare breathe) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. внушить; вселить; пробудить; заронить (мысль, чувство и т. п.) to inspire smb. with hope, to inspire hope in (into) smb. —- вселить в кого-л. надежду to inspire smb. with new life —- вдохнуть в кого-л. новую жизнь; придать кому-л. свежие силы to inspire smb. with respect —- внушать кому-л. уважение to inspire respect —- вызывать уважение 2. инспирировать, тайно внушать to inspire false stories about smb. —- распространять (инспирировать) ложь о ком-л. 3. вдохновлять, воодушевлять; стимулировать the book was inspired by his travels in the Far East —- стимулом для написания книги послужила его поездка по Дальнему Востоку 4. вдыхать, дышать the air we inspire —- воздух, которым мы дышим 5. рел. ниспослать наитие ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) внушать, вселять (чувство и т.п.) (in) The generals speech inspired keenness in the men. 2) вдохновлять, воодушевлять (with) The generals speech inspired the men with keenness. 3) инспирировать, тайно внушать 4) вдыхать Syn: see encourage ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to encourage someone by making them feel confident and eager to achieve something great (We need a new captain - someone who can inspire the team. | inspire sb to sth) (I hope this success will inspire you to greater efforts.) 2 to make someone have a particular feeling or react in a particular way (Gandhi's quiet dignity inspired respect even among his enemies. | not inspire confidence (=make people feel anxious because they do not trust your ability)) (His driving hardly inspires confidence.) 3 to give someone the idea for a story, painting, poem etc (The story was inspired by a chance meeting with an old Russian duke.) 4 technical to breathe in ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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univ. abbr. Interstate Network Of Science Programs Integrating Research And Education ...English abbreviation dictionary
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