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What (who) is intend - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Intends; Intended; Intending; Intender; Intenders; Intend (disambiguation)
intend
v. a.
Mean, design, purpose, meditate, contemplate, propose to one's self, have in view, think of, aim at, drive at.
intend
(intends, intending, intended)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you intend to do something, you have decided or planned to do it.
She intends to do A levels and go to university...
I didn't intend coming to Germany to work...
We had always intended that the new series would be live.
VERB: V to-inf, V -ing, V that
2.
If something is intended for a particular purpose, it has been planned to fulfil that purpose. If something is intended for a particular person, it has been planned to be used by that person or to affect them in some way.
This money is intended for the development of the tourist industry...
Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status...
Originally, Hatfield had been intended as a leisure complex.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed for n, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed as n
3.
If you intend a particular idea or feeling in something that you say or do, you want to express it or want it to be understood.
He didn't intend any sarcasm...
Burke's response seemed a little patronizing, though he undoubtedly hadn't intended it that way...
This sounds like a barrage of accusation-I don't intend it to be...
I think he intended it as a put-down comment.
= mean
VERB: V n, V n n, V n to-inf, V n prep
intend
v.
1) (d; tr.) ('to design') to intend as (It was intended as a joke)
2) (d; tr.) ('to design') to intend for (the book is intended for children)
3) (E) ('to plan') she intends to file suit
4) (G) ('to plan') what do you intend doing.
5) (BE) (H) ('to want') we intend them to do it
6) (L; subj.) ('to want') we never intended that she get/should get involved
Wikipedia
Intend
Intend, and its variations, may refer to:
- Intendant, the holder of a public administrative office in several countries
- Intended, a person engaged or betrothed to be married
- Intended reader, a member of a target audience
- Intending cross or memorial cross to commemorate an event
Examples of use of intend
1. "Did you intend in these false public filings and false public statements, intend to deceive the investing public?" U.S.
2. I intend to get results and I intend to work on the hard things, not the easy ones." "We have procedures for interrogation in the Army Field Manual.
3. I intend to get results and I intend to work on the hard things, not the easy ones.‘‘ We have procedures for interrogation in the Army Field Manual.
4. "We have very aggressive goals for that case, for what we intend to recover and from whom we intend to recover it," Mr Coffey says.
5. There‘s no question that it‘s our desire to reduce the forces, and we intend to, and the Iraqis intend for us to," the defense secretary said.