Intelligence vs Spy - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
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, title= (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
* Tennyson
(uncountable) Information]], usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile [[activity, activities.
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
* Clarendon
A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
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, title= To act as a spy.
To spot; to catch sight of.
* Jonathan Swift
* Latimer
To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
* Shakespeare
To explore; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
* Bible, Numbers xxi. 32
barf (US), vomit, spew
to barf (US), throw up, vomit, spew (also figurative )
As nouns the difference between intelligence and spy
is that intelligence is capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend while spy is a person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).As a verb spy is
to act as a spy.intelligence
English
(wikipedia intelligence)Noun
- Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.
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- The great Intelligences fair / That range above our mortal state, / In circle round the blessed gate, / Received and gave him welcome there.
- He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favourites.
Synonyms
* (capacity of mind) wit, intellect, brightness * (entity) see * See alsoDerived terms
* artificial intelligence * machine intelligence * CIA * IQ * * * SISspy
English
Noun
(spies)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Derived terms
* spy ringVerb
- During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.
- I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.
- One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.
- Look about with your eyes; spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England.
- It is my nature's plague / To spy into abuses.
- Moses sent to spy Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof.