Import vs Mental - What's the difference?
import | mental |
(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
(uncountable) Significance, importance.
To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
* 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
To be of importance to (someone or something).
* 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
* Dryden
To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
* 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
* 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
To mean, signify.
* Hooker
(archaic) To express, to imply.
Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
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, title= Insane, mad, crazy.
:
Enjoyable; fun.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
:
(lb) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
As nouns the difference between import and mental
is that import is import (the act of importing) while mental is moron.import
English
Etymology 1
(verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia import)Synonyms
* (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weightAntonyms
* (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificanceVerb
(en verb)- How can I import files from older versions of this application?
Quotations
* (English Citations of "import")Derived terms
* importable * important * importer * importationAntonyms
* (bring in from a foreign country) exportEtymology 2
From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
- This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
- If I endure it, what imports it you?
- It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
- It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
- Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.
References
* English heteronyms ----mental
English
(wikipedia mental)Adjective
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}