intend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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 dialectal mint.
Inflected forms:
form: intends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: intend
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: intend
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: intend
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: intendest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: intendedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: intends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intendeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: intend
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: intend
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: intend
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: intending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
usually
examples: He intends to go to university.
They evidently intended some mischief.
After I've finished my contract I never intend to teach teenagers again.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
pos: verb
gloss: To stretch to extend; distend.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To strain; make tense.
pos: verb
gloss: To intensify; strengthen.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].
gloss: To apply with energy.
pos: verb
gloss: To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
pos: verb
gloss: To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
pos: verb
gloss: To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.
pos: verb
Related words: intense
intensive
intent
intention
intension
Derived words: as God intended
foreintend
intendable
intender
intendingly
intendment
misintend
unintending
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