| 单词 | intend |
| 释义 | intend (once / 35 pages) v If you intend to do something, you mean to do it or have it in mind as a goal. Do you plan on getting your holiday cards in the mail before February this year? Then you intend on getting them out early. The world is full of good intentions, meaning there are lots of people who intend to be nice, eat better, floss more, or pick up their dirty socks. But things don't always go as planned. Your actions could produce results that you didn't expect, specify, or ever intend — that might explain the well-known proverb, "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." WORD FAMILYintend: intended, intending, intends, intention+/intended: intendedly, unintended/intention: intentional, intentions/intentional: intentionality, intentionally, unintentional/unintended: unintendedly/unintentional: unintentionally USAGE EXAMPLESCouriers may be useful if you and your intended recipient are in the same city. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The document was intended to help companies mitigate Russian hacking and report any suspicious activity to the government. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Now 36 years old, she grew up in a family where office work was the norm, and attended college intending to become a teacher. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1v have in mind as a purpose Syn|Hypo mean, think design intend or have as a purpose be after, planhave the will and intention to carry out some action aim, propose, purport, purposepropose or intend think outconsider carefully and rationally aim, aspire, draw a bead on, shoot forhave an ambitious plan or a lofty goal go for, hopeintend with some possibility of fulfilment 2v design or destine She was intended to become the director Syn|Hypo|Hyper designate, destine, specify mean destine or designate for a certain purpose designplan something for a specific role or purpose or effect slatedesignate or schedule aim, calculate, directspecifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public plan make plans for something 3v mean or intend to express or convey what do his words intend? Syn|Hypo|Hyper mean represent, stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol signifyconvey or express a meaning import, spellindicate or signify aimdirect (a remark) toward an intended goal aim, drive, getmove into a desired direction of discourse be, embody, personifyrepresent, as of a character on stage epitomise, epitomize, typifyembody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of convey make known; pass on, of information 4v denote or connote Syn|Hypo mean, signify, stand for signify convey or express a meaning denote, refer have as a meaning convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist aroundpractice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive euphemise, euphemizerefer to something with a euphemism come back, hark back, recall, returngo back to something earlier identify, namegive the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property applyrefer (a word or name) to a person or thing slurspeak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur express, stateindicate through a symbol, formula, etc. |
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