Import vs Seriousness - What's the difference?
import | seriousness | Related terms |
(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.
The state or quality of being serious.
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Import is a related term of seriousness.
As nouns the difference between import and seriousness
is that import is import (the act of importing) while seriousness is the state or quality of being serious.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 ----seriousness
English
Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
- Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.