Verb

(en verb)

To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington

, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}

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

(obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.

To strain; make tense.

(obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.

*, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:

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

To apply with energy.

To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

To design mechanically or artistically; ; mold.

To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

Verb

(destinat)

To destine, to choose.

To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.

* 1997 September 11, "Tom Watson", Hoe does FX work?'', in comp.dcom.telecom.tech, ''Usenet :

Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.

To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.

* 2009 , Statistical Abstract of the United States

Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.