Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 56
Intelligence (n.) [U] 智能；智慧；理解力；情報；情報工作；情報機關 [G]；消息，信息 Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
Specifically; (Mil.) Information about an enemy or potential enemy, his capacities, and intentions.
I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. -- Court of Love.
Intelligence (n.) An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. -- Milton.
The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. -- Tennyson.
Intelligence (n.) (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.
Intelligence office, An office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
Syn: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.
Intelligence (n.) The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: {stupidity}].
Intelligence (n.) A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy [syn: {intelligence}, {intelligence service}, {intelligence agency}].
Intelligence (n.) Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" [syn: {intelligence}, {intelligence information}].
Intelligence (n.) Information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: {news}, {intelligence}, {tidings}, {word}].
Intelligence (n.) The operation of gathering information about an enemy [syn: {intelligence}, {intelligence activity}, {intelligence operation}].
Intelligencer (n.) 通報者；情報員；諜報員 One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. -- Burke.
Intelligencing (a.) Informing; giving information; talebearing. [Obs.] -- Shak.
That sad intelligencing tyrant. -- Milton.
Intelligency (n.) Intelligence. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Intelligent (a.) 有才智的；聰明的；明智的；有理性的；【電腦】智能的；能將數字信息轉換成硬拷貝的 Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.
Intelligent (a.) Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.
Intelligent (a.) Gognizant; aware; communicate. [Obs.]
Intelligent of seasons. -- Milton.
Which are to France the spies and speculations Intelligent of our state. -- Shak.
Syn: Sensible; understanding. See {Sensible}.
Intelligent (a.) Having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" [ant: {stupid}, {unintelligent}].
Intelligent (a.) Possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers" [syn: {intelligent}, {well-informed}].
Intelligent (a.) Exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" [syn: {healthy}, {intelligent}, {levelheaded}, {level-headed}, {sound}].
Intelligent (a.) Endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: {intelligent}, {reasoning(a)}, {thinking(a)}].
Intelligential (a.) Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." -- Milton.
Intelligential (a.) Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal.
Food alike those pure Intelligential substances require. -- Milton.
Intelligentiary (n.) One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Intelligently (adv.) In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
Intelligently (adv.) In an intelligent manner; "she acted intelligently in this difficult situation" [ant: unintelligently].
Intelligibility (n.) The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
Intelligibility (n.) The quality of language that is comprehensible [ant: unintelligibility].
Intelligible (a.) Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc.
The intelligible forms of ancient poets. -- Coleridge.
Syn: Comprehensible; perspicuous; plain; clear.
Intelligible (a.) Capable of being apprehended or understood [syn: apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable, understandable].
Intelligible (a.) Well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; "intelligible pronunciation" [ant: unintelligible].
Intelligibleness (n.) The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. -- Locke.
Intelligibly (adv.) In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.
Intemerate (a.) Alt. of Intemerated.
Intemerated (a.) Pure; undefiled.
Intemerateness (n.) The state of being unpolluted; purity.
Intemerament (n.) A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part.
Intemperance (n.) 不節制，過度，酗酒 The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.
Intemperance (n.) Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
Intemperance (n.) The quality of being intemperate [ant: {moderation}, {temperance}].
Intemperance (n.) Consumption of alcoholic drinks [syn: {intemperance}, {intemperateness}].
Intemperance (n.) Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language" [syn: {intemperance}, {intemperateness}, {self-indulgence}].
Intemperancy (n.) Intemperance.
Intemperant (a.) Intemperate.
Intemperate (a.) Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.
Intemperate (a.) Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.
Intemperate (a.) Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.
Intemperate (v. t.) To disorder.
Intemperately (adv.) In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.
Intemperateness (n.) The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
Intemperateness (n.) Severity of weather; inclemency.
Intemperature (n.) Intemperateness.
Intempestive (a.) Out of season; untimely.
Intempestively (adv.) Unseasonably.
Intempestivity (n.) Unseasonableness; untimeliness.
Intenable (a.) Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress.
Intended (imp. & p. p.) of Intend.
Intending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intend.
Intend (v. t.) 想要；打算 [+to-v] [+v-ing] [+（that）] [O2]；打算使……（成為）；（為……而）準備[H] [（+for/ as）] [O2] To stretch; to extend; to distend. [Obs.]
By this the lungs are intended or remitted. -- Sir M. Hale.
Intend (v. t.) To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]
When a bow is successively intended and remedied. -- Cudworth.
Intend (v. t.) To intensify; to
strengthen. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Magnetism may be intended and remitted. -- Sir I. Newton.
Intend (v. t.) To apply with energy.
Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction. -- Emerson.
Intend (v. t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic] -- Shak.
Intend (v. t.) To fix the mind
on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. [Obs.]
Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education
of Philip. -- Bacon.
My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying. -- Fuller.
Intend (v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.
They intended evil against thee. -- Ps. xxi. 11.
To-morrow he intends To hunt the boar with certain of his friends. -- Shak.
Intend (v. t.) To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold. [Obs.]
Modesty was made when she was first intended. -- Beau. & Fl.
Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. [Obs.]
Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio. -- Shak.
Syn: To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.
Intend (v.) Have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" [syn: intend, mean, think].
Intend (v.) Design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: intend, destine, designate, specify].
Intend (v.) Mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" [syn: mean, intend].
Intend (v.) Denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" [syn: mean, intend, signify, stand for].
Intendancies (n. pl. ) of Intendancy.
Intendancy (n.) 監督官之職；監督團 The office or employment of an intendant.
Intendancy (n.) A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
Intendant (n.) 監督官；管理者 One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
Intendant (a.) Attentive. [Obs.]
Intendant (n.) One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, department, or public business.
Intended (a.) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Intended (a.) 打算中的，預期的，未來的；為某人開設的；故意的，預謀的 Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.
They drew a curse from an intended good. -- Cowper.
Intended (a.) Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
Intended (n.) 【口】已訂婚者；intend的動詞過去式、過去分詞 One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.
If it were not that I might appear to disparage his intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be throwing herself away. -- Dickens.
Intended (a.) Resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult" [ant: unintended].
Intended (a.) Future; betrothed; "his intended bride".
Intended (n.) [ C usually singular ] (Old-fashioned or humorous) 未婚夫；未婚妻 The person that you are going to marry.
// I shall be there with my intended.
Intendedly (adv.) Intentionally. [R.] -- Milton.
Intendent (n.) See Intendant, n. [Obs.]
Intender (n.) One who intends. -- Feltham.
Intendiment (n.) Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Intendment (n.) Charge; oversight. [Obs.] -- Ford.
Intendment (n.) Intention; design; purpose.
The intendment of God and nature. -- Jer. Taylor.
Intendment (n.) (Law) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.
Intenerated (imp. & p. p.) of Intenerate.
Intenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intenerate.
Intenerate (v. t.) 【罕】使變嫩 To make tender or sensitive; to soften.
Fear intenerates the heart. -- Bp. Hall.
So have I seen the little purls of a stream . . . intenerate the stubborn pavement. -- Jer. Taylor.
Intenerate (a.) Made tender or soft; softened. [Obs.]
Inteneration (n.) The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening.
Intenible (a.) Incapable of holding or containing.
Intensated (imp. & p. p.) of Intensate.
Intensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intensate.
Intensate (v. t.) To intensify. [R.] -- Emerson.
Intensation (n.) The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Intensative (a.) Adding intensity; intensifying.
Intense (a.) 強烈的，劇烈的；極度的；熱情的；熱切的 Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
Intense (a.) Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:
Intense (a.) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat.
Intense (a.) Keen; biting; as, intense cold.
Intense (a.) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate.
Intense (a.) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish.
Intense (a.) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light.
In this intense seclusion of the forest. -- Hawthorne.
Intense (a.) Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" [ant: mild].
Intense (a.) Extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense].
Intense (a.) (Of color) Having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue" [syn: intense, vivid].
Intensely (adv.) 激烈地；熱情地；熱心地 Intently. [Obs.] -- J. Spencer.
Intensely (adv.) To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.
Intensely (adv.) In an intense manner; "he worked intensely".
Intenseness (n.) 劇烈；緊張 The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.
Intensification (n.) 增強，強化；加緊，加劇 The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
Intensification (n.) Action that makes something stronger or more extreme.
Intensification (n.) The act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film).
Intensifier (n.) 增強器；增強劑；加強者 One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
Intensifier (n.) A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" [syn: intensifier, intensive].
Intensified (imp. & p. p.) of Intensify.
Intensifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intensify.
Intensify (v. t.) 加強，增強；使變激烈；【攝】加強（明暗度），強化（潛影） To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. -- Bacon.
How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. -- Longfellow.
Intensify (v. i.) 增強，強化；變激烈 To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
Intensify (v.) Increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: {escalate}, {intensify}, {step up}] [ant: {de-escalate}, {step down}, {weaken}].
Intensify (v.) Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: {intensify}, {compound}, {heighten}, {deepen}].
Intensify (v.) Become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: {intensify}, {deepen}].
Intensify (v.) Make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark.
Intension (n.) 增強；加劇；強度，烈度 A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
Intension (n.) Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency. -- Jer. Taylor.
Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. -- Bacon.
Intension (n.) (Logic & Metaph.) The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; -- opposed to extension, extent, or sphere.
This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Intension (n.) What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression [syn: intension, connotation].
Intensitive (a.) 強烈的 Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence. -- H. Sweet.
Intensity (n.) [U] （思想、感情、活動等的）強烈；極度；（電、熱、光、聲等的）強度，烈度 The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. -- F. W. Robertson.
Intensity (n.) (Physics) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
Intensity (n.) (Mech.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.
Intensity (n.) (Photog.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
Intensity (n.) The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength" [syn: intensity, strength, intensity level].
Intensity (n.) High level or degree; the property of being intense [syn: intensity, intensiveness]
Intensity (n.) The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume, loudness, intensity] [ant: softness].
Intensity (n.) Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness].
Intensive (a.) 加強的；密集的；精深的；透徹的；特別護理的 Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. -- Sir M. Hale.
Intensive (a.) Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense. [Obs.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Intensive (a.) (Gram.) Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.
Intensive (a.) (Agric.) Designating, or pertaining to, any system of farming or horticulture, usually practiced on small pieces of land, in which the soil is thoroughly worked and fertilized so as to get as much return as possible; -- opposed to extensive.
Intensive (n.) [C] 加強器；增強劑；增強語氣的字（或字首等） That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.
Intensive (a.) Characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor- intensive industry".
Intensive (a.) Tending to give force or emphasis; "an intensive adverb".
Intensive (a.) Of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor; "intensive agriculture"; "intensive conditions" [ant: extensive].
Intensive (n.) A modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" [syn: intensifier, intensive].
Intensively (adv.) 強烈地；集中地 In an intensive manner; by increase of degree. -- Abp. Bramhall.
Intensively (adv.) In an intensive manner; "he studied the snake intensively".
Intensiveness (n.) The quality or state of being intensive; intensity. -- Sir M. Hale.
Intensiveness (n.) High level or degree; the property of being intense [syn: intensity, intensiveness].
Intent (a.) 熱切的，急切的；專心致志的；堅決要做的 [F] [（+on/ upon）] Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.