Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Initialism of in-body image stabilization, in which stabilization mechanisms are built into the camera (phone) body rather than the lens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
plural of IBI
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wading bird, wader
Narrower terms: wood ibis, wood stork, Ibis ibis, sacred ibis, Threskiornis aethiopica
History
Mentioned in the Wycliffe Bible (Lev. 11:17) as ybyn or ibin, as ibys from 16th century and ibis shortly after. From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian h-b-G26 (hbj) (compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)).
Across languages
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
