Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
entender . - noun One who intends.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who intends.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
intends .
Etymologies
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Examples
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¨ ¨You have given me absolutely no test that can be performed to see if things are intended or not (unless you can ask the intender).
Bunny and a Book 2008
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You have given me absolutely no test that can be performed to see if things are intended or not (unless you can ask the intender).
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Intiendo dos idiomas porque puedo, y no voy a dejar mi idioma querido por que unos pendejos no se pueden intender nada.
Think Progress » Right-Wing Mayor Calls for McDonald’s Boycott Over Spanish-Language Ads 2006
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It says "Dump your pen friend" which is a little offensive to her and also says "Free Virgin to Virgin" which kind of has a double intender.
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I think it was intender for more people but we managed to polish it off.
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I think it was intender for more people but we managed to polish it off.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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In brief; an intention of doing good unto any one upon the performance of such a condition as the intender knows is absolutely above the strength of him of whom it is required, — especially if he know that it can no way be done but by his concurrence, and he is resolved not to yield that assistance which is necessary to the actual accomplishment of it, — is a vain fruitless flourish.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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Mouse and mountain and a quiver, a quaint statue and pain in an exterior and silence more silence louder shows salmon a mischief intender.
Food 1914
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Mouse and mountain and a quiver, a quaint statue and pain in an exterior and silence more silence louder shows salmon a mischief intender.
Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Gertrude Stein 1910
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Government keeps a super-intender there and twelve men to save wracked people, and there is a herd of three hundred wild hosses kept there for food for saved crews that land there, when provision is short, or for super-intender to catch and break for use, as the case may be.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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