Inert
adj.
Lacking the power to move or unable to move.
He lay there, inert, not moving at all.
Often appears as...
- inert body
- inert substance
adj.
Not reacting or doing anything.
An inert gas, such as helium or neon, does not react chemically.
Often appears as...
- inert gas
- inert material
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Academic
adj.
Not having any effect or impact.
The medicine seemed to be inert and had no effect on the patient's condition.
Often appears as...
- inert medication
- inert tactics
adj.
Lacking the power to move or unable to move.
He lay there, inert, not moving at all.
Often appears as...
- inert body
- inert substance
adj.
Not reacting or doing anything.
An inert gas, such as helium or neon, does not react chemically.
Often appears as...
- inert gas
- inert material
Usage tips
Academic
adj.
Not having any effect or impact.
The medicine seemed to be inert and had no effect on the patient's condition.
Often appears as...
- inert medication
- inert tactics
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Physical immobility
Used to describe something or someone that is not moving and seems almost lifeless.
After hours of work, he was lying inert on the couch.
Pro Tip 2/2Lacking energy
Can imply a lack of energy or enthusiasm in a person's behavior or state.
He responded to the cheer with an inert nod.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical immobility
Used to describe something or someone that is not moving and seems almost lifeless.
After hours of work, he was lying inert on the couch.
Pro Tip 2/2Lacking energy
Can imply a lack of energy or enthusiasm in a person's behavior or state.
He responded to the cheer with an inert nod.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical immobility
Used to describe something or someone that is not moving and seems almost lifeless.
After hours of work, he was lying inert on the couch.
Pro Tip 2/2Lacking energy
Can imply a lack of energy or enthusiasm in a person's behavior or state.
He responded to the cheer with an inert nod.
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Gregory Stock: To...
which you all are very, very familiar with. It's changing our lives in so many ways, and it will continue to do that. What the essence of that is, is that we're taking the sand at our feet, the inert silicon at our feet, and we're breathing a level of complexity into it that rivals that of life itself,
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Kevin Kelly: How...
long-distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up -- and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock. And wherever life is, it never retreats. It's ubiquitous and it wants to be more. More and more of the inert matter of the globe is being touched and animated by life.
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String theory - Brian...
to calculate the effect of gravity he had been unable to figure out how it really works how is it that the Sun 93 million miles away somehow defect the motion of the earth how does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence and that as a task to a
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Craig Venter: On the...
Can chemistry permit making these really large molecules where we've never been before? And if we do, can we boot up a chromosome? A chromosome, by the way, is just a piece of inert chemical material. So, our pace of digitizing life has been increasing
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Can seaweed help curb...
to distribute the seaweed across vast areas of the ocean, rather than creating a big stinking pile in one place. It may be that we'll need to char the seaweed -- so create a sort of an inert, mineral biochar before we dispatch it into the deep.
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Coming of Age in the...
happen on a completely different, unexpected phenomena. Those wonderfully inert, harmless CFCs, the magic molecules of shaving cream and hairspray, didn't simply vanish when we were done with them. They had an afterlife at the edge of space,
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Fossils 101 PIPE National...
in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb
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Benjamin Wallace: The...
And he goes to great lengths to protect the olive oil from oxygen and light. He uses tiny bottles, the glass is tinted, he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas. And he actually -- once he releases a batch of it,
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Thom Mayne: Architecture...
I work in the mineral world. I work with more or less inert matter. And I organize it. And, well, it's also a bit different
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Building smart cities PIPE...
the whole city as a tech space like this here is the issue the technology is the inert of this city the rate of
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Gregory Stock: To...
which you all are very, very familiar with. It's changing our lives in so many ways, and it will continue to do that. What the essence of that is, is that we're taking the sand at our feet, the inert silicon at our feet, and we're breathing a level of complexity into it that rivals that of life itself,
Video examples
Kevin Kelly: How...
long-distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up -- and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock. And wherever life is, it never retreats. It's ubiquitous and it wants to be more. More and more of the inert matter of the globe is being touched and animated by life.
Video examples
String theory - Brian...
to calculate the effect of gravity he had been unable to figure out how it really works how is it that the Sun 93 million miles away somehow defect the motion of the earth how does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence and that as a task to a
Video examples
Craig Venter: On the...
Can chemistry permit making these really large molecules where we've never been before? And if we do, can we boot up a chromosome? A chromosome, by the way, is just a piece of inert chemical material. So, our pace of digitizing life has been increasing
Video examples
Can seaweed help curb...
to distribute the seaweed across vast areas of the ocean, rather than creating a big stinking pile in one place. It may be that we'll need to char the seaweed -- so create a sort of an inert, mineral biochar before we dispatch it into the deep.
Video examples
Coming of Age in the...
happen on a completely different, unexpected phenomena. Those wonderfully inert, harmless CFCs, the magic molecules of shaving cream and hairspray, didn't simply vanish when we were done with them. They had an afterlife at the edge of space,
Video examples
Fossils 101 PIPE National...
in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb
Video examples
Benjamin Wallace: The...
And he goes to great lengths to protect the olive oil from oxygen and light. He uses tiny bottles, the glass is tinted, he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas. And he actually -- once he releases a batch of it,
Video examples
Thom Mayne: Architecture...
I work in the mineral world. I work with more or less inert matter. And I organize it. And, well, it's also a bit different
Video examples
Building smart cities PIPE...
the whole city as a tech space like this here is the issue the technology is the inert of this city the rate of
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John Lasseter
American Director
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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Malaika Arora Khan
Indian Actress
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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Neil Jordan
Irish Director
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
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Robin Sloan
American Author
What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention.
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Minor White
American Photographer
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
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Shirley Chisholm
American Politician
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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Henry Adams
American Historian
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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David James Duncan
American Novelist
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.
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John Lasseter
American Director
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.
Quote examples
Malaika Arora Khan
Indian Actress
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!
Quote examples
Neil Jordan
Irish Director
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
Quote examples
Robin Sloan
American Author
What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention.
Quote examples
Minor White
American Photographer
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
Quote examples
Shirley Chisholm
American Politician
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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Quote examples
Henry Adams
American Historian
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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David James Duncan
American Novelist
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
Quote examples
John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.
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