intent
1the act or fact of intending, as to do something: Any identified individual found to have violated this rule with intent will be suspended from all participation in the forum.
Law. the state of a person's mind that directs their actions toward a specific object: He was arrested for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
meaning or significance.
Idioms about intent
to / for all intents and purposes, for all practical purposes; practically speaking; virtually: The book is, to all intents and purposes, a duplication of earlier efforts.
Origin of intent
1synonym study For intent
Other words for intent
Words that may be confused with intent
- intense, intents
Other definitions for intent (2 of 2)
Origin of intent
2Other words for intent
Opposites for intent
Other words from intent
- in·tent·ly, adverb
- in·tent·ness, noun
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How to use intent in a sentence
The pair came off, for all intents and purposes, as passionately opinionated amateurs on the subject at hand.
Karen Armstrong’s New Rule: Religion Isn’t Responsible for Violence | Patricia Pearson | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor all intents and purposes, sodium thiopental is now unavailable in the United States.
The episode of Girls airing this Sunday has Marnie hitting what, for all intents and purposes, should be considered rock bottom.
Is Marnie From ‘Girls’ the Worst Character on TV? | Kevin Fallon | February 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1965 David Ben-Gurion, for all intents and purposes the founder of the state, led a breakaway group from Mapai to form Rafi.
He “buckled” and gave up, and for all intents and purposes refused to re-engage after that.
Courthorne's land was mine to all intents and purposes before it was his, and now it reverts to me.
Winston of the Prairie | Harold BindlossTo all intents and appearances, Roderick Hoff had dropped off the earth on or about April twelfth.
Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins AdamsThe Chinese quarter is to all intents and purposes a Chinese city.
As A Chinaman Saw Us | AnonymousThey call these great creatures eagle-hawks, but they are wholly eagles, to all intents and purposes.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada CambridgeIt is a story to all intents and purposes without a woman in it: or, if that is saying too much, certainly without a heroine.
Corot | Sidney Allnutt
British Dictionary definitions for intent
/ (ɪnˈtɛnt) /
something that is intended; aim; purpose; design
the act of intending
law the will or purpose with which one does an act
implicit meaning; connotation
to all intents and purposes for all practical purposes; virtually
firmly fixed; determined; concentrated: an intent look
(postpositive; usually foll by on or upon) having the fixed intention (of); directing one's mind or energy (to): intent on committing a crime
Origin of intent
1Derived forms of intent
- intently, adverb
- intentness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with intent
see to all intents and purposes.
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