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intend | scheme |

As a verb intend

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

As a noun scheme is

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intend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.
  • *
    • , 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.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See

    Synonyms

    * mean, mint, foremind

    Related terms

    * intensive * intent

    Anagrams

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    scheme

    English

    (wikipedia scheme)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A systematic plan of future action.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Ideas coming down the track, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • A plot or secret, devious plan.
  • An orderly combination of related parts.
  • * John Locke
    • the appearance and outward scheme of things
  • * Atterbury
    • such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
  • * J. Edwards
    • arguments sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy
  • * Macaulay
    • The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.
  • A chart or diagram of a system or object.
  • * South
    • to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
  • (mathematics) A type of topological space.
  • (UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 101:
    • It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme .
  • (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
  • (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
  • Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

    • Usage notes

    In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

    Synonyms

    * (a systematic plan of future action) blueprint

    Verb

    (schem)
  • To plot, or contrive a plan.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek. }}

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