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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intent
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ Harry was so intent on his work that he did not hear the door open.
▪ I think you were so intent on winning that you didn't care what happened to anyone that got in your way.
▪ I think what they mean is that they appear so intent on their work that they don't seem to notice onlookers.
▪ For a moment the boy was so intent, Lois thought tears would spring to his eyes.
▪ If you're so intent on keeping the young alive then why don't you ban rock climbing?
▪ Why he was so intent on seducing her was beyond her comprehension.
too
▪ They were too intent on the priest or each other.
▪ They are too intent on their game to notice the blur of his body running by.
▪ Tish intends to do some drawing, but is too intent on keeping a diary.
▪ He had not heard them pass him; he had been too intent on watching the singer.
▪ He was too intent on catching the female rogue who had taken his grey.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an intent gaze
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He couldn't have observed her intent scrutiny which was fuelled by an unfamiliar feeling she found deeply shocking.
▪ He is intent only on saving his own skin.
▪ Still onward pressed the columns, each seemingly intent to be ahead and enter first the rebel works.
▪ The children were all intent and serious.
▪ The Hammonds, intent on fraud, certainly would not have explained the proposed sale transaction to Mrs. Steed.
▪ They were wide and very intent, the pupils dilated, and an expression of most extraordinary expectancy on her face.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
criminal
▪ Mr Jones pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with criminal intent and affray.
▪ Police say few police investigations have been opened in these cases because of sketchy information or absence of criminal intent.
▪ Protective agency workers, however, are not investigating for criminal intent.
▪ Anywhere he settles, even for a minute, you sense an air of criminal intent.
▪ Most experts such as Koss focus on factors outside of criminal intent that contribute to date and acquaintance rape.
▪ And the war was portrayed not only as criminal in intent but also as criminal in conduct.
evil
▪ The mental suffering and the evil intent won't be separated.
▪ Why should it suspect these harmless creatures of any evil intent?
▪ Pockets were emptied of loose change, parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent.
serious
▪ The Natural Step There's a serious intent behind this frivolity.
▪ At the time of the Xerox visit, Apple had a working prototype of a machine that reeked of serious intent.
▪ As a gesture, rather than with serious intent, I bank fished.
▪ She struggled momentarily but not, it seemed, with serious intent.
▪ The overdose did not appear to have involved serious suicidal intent.
▪ But it is entertainment with a serious intent.
▪ After all, the best comedy has a serious intent, and Forsyth clearly wants to evoke more than just laughter.
▪ Oldenberg's Lipstick is therefore transgressive precisely because it blends serious intent and playful imagery.
suicidal
▪ The second group comprises patients who inflict serious injuries on themselves with considerable suicidal intent.
▪ The overdose did not appear to have involved serious suicidal intent.
▪ Janet, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, had taken an overdose of paracetamol in circumstances which suggested low suicidal intent.
▪ Only very rarely has the patient carried out the act with suicidal intent in mind.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to sell.
▪ It is not my intent to deny the value of university education.
▪ The intent of the change was to give local officials more power to make decisions.
▪ The gun was fired with intent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Guinness, these principles constitute our Strategic Intent. you have already seen the first part of that intent.
▪ At times, without ill intent, we overburden ourselves.
▪ Bock looked frightened, but Grigoriev's face was predatory and full of avid intent.
▪ He was convicted of abduction with intent to defile and could be sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment.
▪ His team certainly were, and as a reflection of new intent, they quickly got the turning-point goal.
▪ It was not my intent or purpose to injure her.
▪ It will culminate Wednesday, the first day that binding letters of intent may be signed.
▪ Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intent

Intent \In*tent"\, a. [L. intentus, p. p. of intendere. See Intend, and cf. Intense.]

  1. Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

  2. Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure. ``Intent on mischief.''
    --Milton.

    Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker.
    --I. Watts.

Intent

Intent \In*tent"\, n. [OE. entent, entente, attention, purpose, OF. entente, F. entente understanding, meaning; a participial noun, fr. F. & OF. entendre. See Intend.] The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.

Be thy intents wicked or charitable.
--Shak.

The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the laws of duties supernatural.
--Hooker.

To all intents and purposes, in all applications or senses; practically; really; virtually; in essence; essentially. ``He was miserable to all intents and purpose.''
--L'Estrange.

Syn: Design; purpose; intention; meaning; purport; view; drift; object; end; aim; plan.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intent

"purpose," early 13c., from Old French entente, from Latin intentus "a stretching out," in Late Latin "intention, attention," noun use of past participle of intendere "stretch out, lean toward, strain," literally "to stretch out" (see intend).

intent

"very attentive," late 14c., from Latin intentus "attentive, eager, waiting, strained," past participle of intendere "to strain, stretch" (see intend). Related: Intently.

Wiktionary
intent

a. 1 firmly fixed or concentrated on something. 2 engrossed. 3 unwavering from a course of action. n. 1 A purpose; something that is intended. 2 (context legal English) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.

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WordNet
intent

  1. adj. directed with intense concentration; "a fixed stare"; "an intent gaze" [syn: fixed]

  2. wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, rapt, wrapped]

intent

  1. n. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" [syn: purpose, intention, aim, design]

  2. the intended meaning of a communication [syn: purport, spirit]

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Wikipedia
Intent (disambiguation)

Intent or intention refers an agent's specific purpose in performing an action or series of actions.

Intent or intention may also refer to:

  • Intention (criminal law)
  • Intention in English law
  • Original intent, a theory of legal interpretation
  • Intent (Android), an abstract description of an operation to be performed in the Android development environment
  • Intent (military), a capability in military doctrine
  • Intent (software), Tao Group's software platform
  • "Intention" (song), 2008 song by Kenichi Suzumura
  • Intention (book), a 1957 book by the philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe
Intent (military)

Intent is a key capability in 21st century military operations and is a vital element to facilitate subordinates initiative (U.S Army 2003, para.1-69), self-synchronisation (Alberts et al. 1999, pp. 175–180) and collaboration and cooperation (Alberts and Hayes 2007,pp. 109–114) amongst team members in joint operations.

Intent (Android)

An Intent in the Android operating system is a software mechanism that allows users to coordinate the functions of different activities to achieve a task. An Intent is a messaging object which provides a facility for performing late runtime binding between the code in different applications in the Android development environment. Its most significant use is in the launching of activities, where it can be thought of as the glue between activities: Intents provide an inter-application messaging system that encourages collaboration and component reuse.

An Intent is basically a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an action to be performed. For Dummies likens an Intent to flicking a switch: "Your intent is to turn on the light, and to do so, you perform the action of flipping the switch to the On position."

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Usage examples of "intent".

The dwarves said theyve never met a band of Dark Brothers so intent on running away, like they had to get somewhere and couldnt take the time to fight.

Marcaine in the open box, the HARMFUL INTENT 179 chances that his ampule would be used that day were good, especially with two epidural cases listed on the big board.

The professionals one could tell miles off, it was unmistakable: the hard exoskeleton and all the intent personal hatreds, the love of tools, the care, the fastidiousness.

On the other hand, he could be lying about his intent to see the marriage annulled, simply to get her to court without argument.

Intent upon learning who had come to haunt Appleton Manor, she launched a rapid pursuit.

No doubt the unhappy French monarch had suffered waking and sleeping nightmares of English foemen pushing out from Calais, Aquitaine-English and Navarrenos marching up from the southwest while Aragonese ships harried and raided the Mediterranean coast, Savoyards coming from the southeast, and Burgundians from the west and north, all intent upon slicing sizable chunks out of the French pie.

The same doctors who listen to Continuing Medical Education audiocassettes on their car stereos, intent on keeping up with every innovation that might improve their outcome statistics, may regard cross-cultural medicine as a form of political bamboozlement, an assault on their rationality rather than a potentially lifesaving therapy.

It was in fact a pig rooting, as fine a babirussa as he had ever seen: the animal was snorting and grunting at a great rate, wholly intent upon a wealth of tubers.

Hecarried a plastic case with a dish of honey in it, with the obvious intent of capturing a few bees for experimental purposes.

Swiss, who, from the station of a foot soldier in the Dutch service, out of which he had been drummed for theft, had erected himself into the rank of a self-created chevalier, this hero fortified himself with a double dose of brandy, and betook himself to a certain noted coffee-house, with an intent to affront Count Fathom in public.

To my surprise, I suddenly found no resistance, as the enemy troops simply parted to let me pass through, a single maddened Greek being of little consequence to the Persians intent upon rushing the Boeotian fire and screaming camp followers.

The other woman plucked a piece of broadleaf grass, then began absently shredding it, her expression intent.

There were the usual doxies, tinkers, charlatans, and traders, intent on separating the crew of the Bucephalas from their money.

The two Frenchmen seemed intent on following him into the narrows, and had gained enough on Bucephalas to give themselves the option of sitting in his wake, or altering course to the south of de Sirade.

She listened with only half an ear to the byplay between Kit and John Travis as she gazed out the window, intent on the mountain scenery, her deep leather cabin chair swiveled in a conversational mode toward the sofa.