Intension vs Dogged - What's the difference?
intension | dogged |
intensity or the act of becoming intense .
* Francis Bacon
(logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
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(dog)
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh :
stubbornly persevering, steadfast
* 1900 , , The Son of the Wolf :
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
As a noun intension
is intensity or the act of becoming intense .As a verb dogged is
(dog).As a adjective dogged is
stubbornly persevering, steadfast.intension
English
(wikipedia intension)Noun
(en noun)- Sounds likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
- This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
- the intension of a musical string
Usage notes
Not to be confused with intention.Derived terms
* intensionalReferences
dogged
English
Etymology 1
From the verb to dog .Verb
(head)- At night proctors patrolled the street and dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence of vice was suspected.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), characteristics similar to that of a dog .Adjective
(en adjective)- Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.