# intend
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English intenden, entenden (“direct (one’s) attention towards”), borrowed from Old French entendre, from Latin intendō, intendere. See also intensive. Doublet of entendre.
Largely displaced native Old English myntan (“to mean, intend; to think, suppose”), whence dialectical mint.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ĭn-tĕndʹ, IPA: /ɪnˈtɛnd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnd
* Hyphenation: in‧tend

### Verb

intend (third-person singular simple present intends, present participle intending, simple past and past participle intended)
* (transitive, intransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
    Synonyms: mean, design, plan, propose, purpose, (Northern England, Scotland) foremind, mint
    He intends to go to university.
    They evidently intended some mischief.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
** 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
** 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
* To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
* (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
* To strain; make tense.
* (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:
    Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].
* To apply with energy.
* To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
* To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
* To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

#### Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that mostly takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

#### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

#### Derived terms

* as God intended

#### Related terms

* intense
* intensive
* intent
* intention
* intension

#### Translations

Arabic: تَعَمَّدَ (taʕammada), نَوَى (nawā), قَصَدَ (qaṣada)
Armenian: մտադրվել (hy) (mtadrvel), մտադիր լինել (mtadir linel), ծրագրել (hy) (cragrel), պատրաստվել (hy) (patrastvel)
Azerbaijani: niyyət etmək
Belarusian: мець наме́р (mjecʹ namjér), наме́рвацца impf (namjérvacca), планава́ць impf (planavácʹ), збіра́цца (be) impf (zbirácca)
Bulgarian: възнамеря́вам (bg) impf (vǎznamerjávam), плани́рам (bg) impf (planíram)
Catalan: intentar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎤᏰᎸᎭ (uyelvha)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 打算 (zh) (dǎsuàn), 想要 (zh) (xiǎngyào), 意圖 / 意图 (zh) (yìtú)
Czech: zamýšlet impf, mít v úmyslu, hodlat (cs) impf, plánovat (cs) impf
Danish: have til hensigt
Dutch: van plan zijn
Egyptian: (jb)
Esperanto: intenci
Estonian: kavatsema
Faroese: ætla
Finnish: aikoa (fi)
French: avoir l’intention, prévoir (fr)
Friulian: intindi, volê
Georgian: განზრახვა (ka) (ganzraxva)
German: beabsichtigen (de), vorhaben (de), intendieren (de) (formal)
Greek: σκοπεύω (el) (skopévo)
Hindi: इरादा रखना (irādā rakhnā), नीयत करना (nīyat karnā), प्रयोजन रखना (prayojan rakhnā)
Hungarian: szándékozik (hu), akar (hu), szán (hu), tervez (hu)
Indonesian: berniat (id)
Irish: tá faoi
Italian: intendere (it), avere in animo
Japanese: つもりである (tsumori de aru), 意図する (ja) (いとする, ito suru)
Kazakh: ниеттену (niettenu)
Korean: 의도(意圖)하다 (ko) (uidohada)
Kyrgyz: ниеттенүү (niyettenüü)
Latin: habeo in animo, volo (la)
Latvian: iecerēt, domāt (lv), nadomāt
Lithuanian: ketinti, manyti (lt)
Macedonian: има намера (ima namera), плани́ра impf (planíra)
Malagasy: mikasa (mg)
Maltese: beħsiebni
Maori: takune, whakakoro, koro, kapatau (when stated), mea
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ha til hensikt
Persian: آهنگ داشتن (âhang dâštan), بر آن بودن (bar ân budan), قصد داشتن (fa) (qasd dâštan)
Polish: zamierzać (pl) impf
Portuguese: pretender (pt), tencionar (pt)
Romanian: a intenționa (ro)
Russian: намерева́ться (ru) impf (namerevátʹsja), плани́ровать (ru) impf (planírovatʹ), собира́ться (ru) impf (sobirátʹsja)
Scots: ettle
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: намера́вати impf, намјера́вати impf
Roman: namerávati (sh) impf, namjerávati (sh) impf
Slovak: zamýšľať impf, mať v úmysle, hodlať impf, plánovať impf
Slovene: nameravati impf
Spanish: pretender (es), planear (es), intencionar, intentar (es)
Swedish: avse (sv), ämna (sv), planera (sv)
Tajik: ният доштан (niyat doštan), қасд доштан (qasd doštan)
Thai: ตั้งใจ (th) (dtâng-jai)
Turkish: niyet etmek (tr)
Ukrainian: намі́ритись impf (namírytysʹ), планува́ти impf (planuváty), збира́тися impf (zbyrátysja), ма́ти на́мір (máty námir)
Urdu: قصد کرنا (qasd karnā), ارادہ کرنا (irādā karnā)
Uzbek: niyat qilmoq
Vietnamese: định (vi), có ý định
Walloon: awè idêye (wa)
Welsh: bwriadu (cy) :
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### Further reading

* “intend”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Dinnet, dentin, dinnet, indent, tinned