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Ought vs Intend - What's the difference?

ought | intend |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between ought and intend

is that ought is (obsolete) (owe) while intend is (obsolete) to intensify; strengthen.

As verbs the difference between ought and intend

is that ought is (obsolete) (owe) or ought can be (auxiliary) indicating duty or obligation while intend is to fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose .

As a pronoun ought

is anything .

As an adverb ought

is at all, to any degree.

As a noun ought

is a statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case or ought can be cipher, zero, nought.

ought

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (owe)
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
    • There was a certayne lender, which had two detters, the one ought five hondred pence, and the other fifty.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.182:
    • witnesse Aristippus , who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loynes, began to spit.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (auxiliary) Indicating duty or obligation.
  • (auxiliary) Indicating advisability or prudence.
  • (auxiliary) Indicating desirability.
  • (auxiliary) Indicating likelihood or probability.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
    Usage notes
    * Ought'' is an auxiliary verb; it takes a following verb as its complement. This verb may appear either as a full infinitive (such as "to go") or a bare infinitive (such as simple "go"), depending on region and speaker; the same range of meanings is possible in either case. Additionally, it's possible for ''ought not to take any complement, in which case a verb complement is implied, as in, "You really ought to [do so]." * The negative of ought'' is either ''ought not (to)'' or ''oughtn't (to)
    Synonyms
    * should (In all senses)
    See also
    * ought to *

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • anything
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?

    Adverb

    (-)
  • at all, to any degree.

    • See also

    * aught * naught * nought

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1996, title=The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense, author=Mortimer Jerome Adler
    • , passage=There are value judgments that are not reducible to observable matters of fact, and there are oughts that cannot be construed as hypothetical and, therefore, cannot be converted into statements of fact. citation
  • * {{quote-book, year=2004, title=Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain, author=Jacques Maritain, John G. Trapani
    • , passage=Is there a fallacy involved in deriving an ought from a set of exclusively factual or descriptive premises? citation

    References

    * *

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • cipher, zero, nought.

    • Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * English auxiliary verbs English defective verbs English modal verbs

    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

    * * *