Intend vs Value - What's the difference?
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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.}}
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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:
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.
The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= The degree of importance given to something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
* M'Culloch
* Dryden
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
* Joe Hing Lowe
Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
Precise meaning; import.
(obsolete) Esteem; regard.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
To hold dear.
Intend is a related term of value.
As verbs the difference between intend and value
is that intend is to fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose while value is .intend
English
Verb
(en verb)George Goodchild
Ed Pilkington
‘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.}}
- Dotage, fatuity, or follyis for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* mean, mint, foremindAnagrams
* * *value
English
Noun
(en noun)Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
- An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .
- His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.
- the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument
- (Mitford)
- (Dryden)
- My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (quality that renders something desirable) worthDerived terms
* valuable * valueless * valueness * economic value * face value * note value * par value * time valueVerb
(valu)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.