intend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   design or destine

   You are intended to make the world's greatest open source dictionary.

2. 2
   verb

   To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

   He intends to go to university.

3. 3
   verb

   To intensify; strengthen.

   Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].

4. 4
   verb

   have in mind as a purpose

5. 5
   verb

   denote or connote

6. 6
   verb

   mean or intend to express or convey

7. 7
   verb

   To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

8. 8
   verb

   To stretch to extend; distend.

Etymology

From Middle English intenden, entenden (“direct (one’s) attention towards”), borrowed from Old French entendre, from Latin intendō, intendere. See also intensive. Doublet of entendre. Largely displaced native Old English myntan (“to mean, intend; to think, suppose”), whence dialectal mint.