Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.
- n. A physician who has recently graduated from medical school and is learning medical practice in a hospital under supervision, prior to beginning a residency program.
- n. One who is interned; an internee.
- v. To train or serve as an intern.
- v. To confine, especially in wartime.
- adj. Archaic Internal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Internal.
- n. An inmate, as of a school; especially, an assistant resident physician or surgeon in a hospital, usually a student or recent graduate, acting in the absence of the attending physician or surgeon.
- To send into the interior of a country, as merchandise.
- To confine within fixed or prescribed limits; specifically, to cause to reside in an interior locality without permission to leave it.
- Specifically, to confine (a ship of a belligerent) in a neutral port into which it may put: a duty of the neutral power, under the provisions of international law, in time of war.
Wiktionary
- n. A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
- n. A med student or recently graduated medical student working in a hospital as a final part of medical training
- n. A person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily.
- v. transitive To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
- v. transitive, computing To internalize.
- v. intransitive 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.
- adj. archaic Internal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Internal.
- v. To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality.
- v. To hold until the end of a war, as enemy citizens in a country at the time of outbreak of hostilities; -- an action performed by countries.
- n. (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. - n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- v. work as an intern
- n. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
- v. deprive of freedom
Etymologies
- From French interner, from interne ("inner, internal"), from Latin internus ("within, internal"), compare Etymology 2 (Wiktionary)
- French interne, from Latin internus, internal; see internal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Zemzem's other children range in age from 2 to 12, the intern translates as he gently pulls down her gown to cover up her back.”
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“Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president.”
“The Harlem-born Mount Vernon raised businessman had humble beginnings, first working as a label intern ...”
“Current law, as established by the Fair Labor Standards Act and Department of Labor regulatory guidelines, has a six-part test to determine whether employers are legally required to pay interns, including that the intern does not displace regular employees, that the employer derives no immediate advantage, and that the intern is not entitled to a job at the completion of the internship.”
“I think the average 21-year-old Young Republican intern is probably too busy getting wasted and date-raping underclassmen to do a good job on anything requiring serious organizational skills.”
“Camden, our news intern, is creating an excel spreadsheet to see what all these stats mean.”
“An intern from a nearby radio station wanders over on in his cigarette break, watches the awkwardness unfold.”
“FOX News, thank you for reinforcing your inability to function both on a reporting level as well as organizationally (I wonder which bimbo intern is going to get burned for not doing her homework on the real news networks). pmel”
“As we approached our project site I called my intern and told him to have everyone to gather at the ground-breaking site.”
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“Chief Dine says having an intern from the Maryland School for the Deaf was such as positive experience, he hopes it will continue.”
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