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INTENDMENT

Definitions: INTENDMENT

INTENDMENT

Noun

1. The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.

2. Intention; design; purpose.

3. Charge; oversight.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "INTENDMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Etymology: Intendment \In*tend"ment\, noun. [from Old English expression entendement understanding, insight, French entendement, from Late Latin expression intendimentum. See Intend.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: INTENDMENT

Etymologies containing "INTENDMENT": Intendiment. (references)

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Usage Frequency: INTENDMENT

"INTENDMENT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INTENDMENT" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: INTENDMENT

Language Translations for "INTENDMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

interpretare (acting, construction, execution, exposition, interpretation, paraphrase, performance, reading, rendering, rendition). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: INTENDMENT

Derivations

Words beginning with "INTENDMENT": intendments. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: INTENDMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-n-n-t-t"

-3 letters: dentine, dinette, eminent, emitted.

-4 letters: dement, dentin, detent, emetin, endite, indene, indent, intend, intent, itemed, minted, mitten, netted, tented, tentie, tinmen, tinned, tinted, titmen.

-5 letters: demit, denim, diene, emend, inned, meted, mined, teind, tenet, timed, tined.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-n-n-t-t"
 

+1 letter: intendments.

 

+4 letters: discontentment, disenchantment.

 

+5 letters: discontentments, disenchantments, disentanglement, indetermination, underinvestment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: INTENDMENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 54 45 4E 44 4D 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -    .    -.    -..    --    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0054 0045 004E 0044 004D 0045 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43485439483847394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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