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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intern
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Seven hundred men were interned in the camps.
▪ The French soldiers, who had surrendered without fighting, were interned in Hanoi.
▪ Thousands died. And thousands were interned in forced labour camps.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Subsequent investigation showed that Wingate had been interned in various mental institutions for the past seven years of his life.
▪ The arrest was made on 4 May and Gandhi was interned in Yeravda jail.
▪ The order to intern all male category B aliens was posted on 16 May.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ One of the subjects for debate was the government's power of internment without trial.
▪ She refused to be treated by an intern and demanded to see a qualified doctor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
intern

intern \in*tern"\, n. [F.] (F. pron. [a^]N`t[^a]rn")

  1. (Med.) A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called houseman in Britain. [Also spelled interne.]

  2. A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern in a law firm.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intern

1866, "to confine within set limits," from French interner "send to the interior, confine," from Middle French interne "inner, internal," from Latin internus "within, internal" (see internal; also compare intern (n.)).

intern

1879, American English, "one working under supervision as part of professional training," especially "doctor in training in a hospital," from French interne "assistant doctor," literally "resident within a school," from Middle French interne "internal" (see intern (v.)). The verb in this sense is attested from 1933. Related: Interned; interning.

Wiktionary
intern

Etymology 1

  1. (context archaic English) internal. n. A person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To imprison somebody, usually without trial. 2 # (qualifier: of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime. 3 (context transitive computing English) To internalize. 4 (context intransitive English) To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education. Etymology 2

    n. 1 A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field 2 A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training

WordNet
intern
  1. v. deprive of freedom; "During WWII, Japanese were interned in camps in the West"

  2. work as an intern; "The toung doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year"

intern

n. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) [syn: interne, houseman, medical intern]

Wikipedia
Intern (disambiguation)

An intern is one who works in a temporary position with an emphasis on on-the-job training rather than merely employment.

Intern or internship may also refer to:

  • Internship (medicine), training for a physician who has completed medical school
  • Intern (computer science), an immutable copy of a string
  • Internships.com, American web venture

Usage examples of "intern".

It resembled mine when the medical intern on duty called me at night for help with a cutdown or something else on a private medical patient.

I knew none of the staff doctors, none of the residents, none of the interns.

Turning around, I saw the ER intern coming at a run toward me in the blue light of the hall, clutching his laryngoscope and an endotracheal tube.

Schacht is already in his heart committed to a dental career, and he even interns twice a week for a root-specialist over at the National Cranio-Facial Pain Foundation, in east Enfield, when not touring.

Personnel casualties: 899 men killed, 231 prisoners of war, 10 evaders and 2 interned.

Personnel casualties: 437 men killed, 127 prisoners of war, 9 evaders and 9 interned.

Personnel casualties: 650 men killed, 134 prisoners of war, 8 evaders and 7 interned.

Wright had his interns build south of the main buildings, and the camp complex itself was almost fortlike with its walls and courtyards and covered walkways -- good for scuttling between buildings during a dust storm -- but each successive day without either sunlight or Aenea made me increasingly nervous.

Miller received his medical degree from Tufts University, interned at the Yale University School of Medicine, was a Fellow in Hematology at the National Institutes of Health, and a Clinical Fellow in Oncology at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center.

Thomsen had sailed back to Germany on a Swedish ship, lit up to keep it safe from U-boats, in exchange for Americans interned in Germany.

France signed on condition that Japan would use her influence on China to break relations with Germany and place at the disposal of the Allies the German ships interned in Chinese ports.

The communications lines would have been buzzing with pleas by worried relatives for information on loved ones interned in various French camps.

English citizen - had scurried off for the French, Belgian and Dutch frontiers, none of them wishing to be interned in case of war.

Horn and IBM were involved with these projects in various ways, ranging from the provision of funding, to collaborations between IBM researchers and university professors, to the hiring of graduate students as interns and new employees.

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