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Definition: Intruder |
IntruderNoun1. Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "intruder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Individual or agency who deliberately attempts to gain unauthorised to the data base. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | An individual, unit, or weapon system, in or near an operational or exercise area, which presents the threat of intelligence gathering or disruptive activity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: IntruderSynonyms: interloper (n), trespasser (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: penetrator (computing, law). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extraneousness | Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot. |
Interposition | Intermediary, intermedium; go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Intruder |
| English words defined with "intruder": infiltrator, Intrudress ♦ penetrator ♦ Scambler, set gun, spring gun ♦ To put out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "intruder": INCUBUS, Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There is an intruder - male, Caucasian, possibly armed, certainly weird - in my kitchen (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) A strange twilight world opened up before me, and I felt as the first man to set foot on another planet, an intruder in this mystic garden of the deep (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; writing credit: Jules Verne; Earl Felton) Intruder alert (Berzerk; writing credit: Mate Relja) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Intruder (1972) Savage Intruder (1968) Dark Intruder (1965) The Intruder (1961) Strange Intruder (1956) | |
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 | Photographed from the cockpit of a Grumman A-6A "Intruder" aircraft making its final approach for recovery aboard the ship, during operations in the Caribbean Sea, August 1969. The aircraft is assigned to Attack Squadron 176 (VA-176). Photographed by Ph2(DV) William R. Curtsinger. Credit: NAVY. |  | An intruder not to be tolerated. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The intruder a powerful comedy drama of the East & West : the love and romance of an outlaw : by Robert J. Sherman. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Men looked eagerly to see how the Emperor would receive the bold intruder. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was he, the intruder, who put questions |
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Business | High quality intruder alarm systems are imported from Switzerland (CERBERUS, GUARDALL) and Germany (TELENOT). (references) | |
The largest foreign suppliers of medium quality electronic intruder alarms are Canada (DSC) and Israel (CROW). (references) | ||
U.S. companies are strongest in the areas of electronic security (medium quality intruder alarms), fire detection and sensor product lines. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Ghana | However, a retired military officer from the PNDC era, who had been sentenced to death after being convicted of killing an intruder on his farm, also was released after serving 10 years in prison. (references) |
Mexico | She believes it was in retaliation to a case she was working on, in which there was arrest made on October 3. Nothing was taken from her home and the intruder apparently fled when an associate of Castellanos unexpectedly arrived at the scene. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of incubi and succubi, including incubae and succubae, see the Liber Demonorum of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself -- tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless -- sometimes plays at incubus, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Intruder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.99% of the time. "Intruder" is used about 296 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.99% | 293 | 16,984 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.01% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 296 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "intruder": intruder aircraft. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "intruder": night-intruder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "intruder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i futur (epenthetic, hidden, input, out of the way, sunken), njeri i bezdisshëm (busybody), furacak (interloper, obtrusive). (various references) | |
Arabic | مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, irksome, irritating, mean, mischievous, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, ludicrous, new, odd, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), المتطفل (meddler, prying, sponge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | узурпатор (usurper), самозванец (impostor, personator), неканен гост (gate crasher), нарушител (breaker, culprit, disturber, offender, sinner, transgressor, violator, wrongdoer), нахален човек (lout), досаден човек (bromide, incubus, nuisance). (various references) | |
Chinese | 侵入者 (invader), 入侵者 (Raider). (various references) | |
Czech | vetřelec (interloper, invader, trespasser). (various references) | |
Danish | indtrængende, uvedkommende (penetrator, perpetrator, violator). (various references) | |
Dutch | inbreker (burglar), fraudeur (crook, fraud, penetrator, perpetrator, swindler, violator). (various references) | |
Farsi | مزاحم (Bothersome, Gadfly, Knocker, Leech, Tiresome, Troublemaker, Troublous), مخل , کسیکه سرزده یابدون اجازه واردشود. (various references) | |
Finnish | tungettelija (importunate person). (various references) | |
French | intrus (interloper, intruding, intrusive), importun (inadvisable, interfering, intrusive). (various references) | |
German | eindringling (gatecrasher, infiltrator, interloper, invader, usurper). (various references) | |
Greek | παρείσακτοσ (interloper), παρείσακτος (adventitious), παραβάτης (offender, trespasser), εισβολέας (invader, raider), απρόσκλητοσ (unbidden, uninvited). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסי' 'בול (encroacher, trespasser), מסת ן (infiltrator), פולש (invader, squatter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tolakodó (assertive, busybody, hustler, importunate, indiscreet, intrusive, jostling, meddler, meddlesome, obtrusive, self-assertive, shrill), betolakodó (gatecrasher, interloper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengganggu (disturber, gadfly, molester). (various references) | |
Italian | intruso (interloper, intrusive, obtruder, obtrusive). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 闖入者 , 乱入者 , 侵入者 (invader, raider, trespasser). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"にゅうしゃ (invader, raider, trespasser), ら"にゅうしゃ, ち"にゅうしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 침입자 (Raider). (various references) | |
Manx | fer brishee stiagh, brisheyder stiagh (gatecrasher, interloper). (various references) | |
Norwegian | inntrenger (invader). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intruderay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | intruso (gatecrasher, incomer, interloper, intrusive, meddlesome, newcomer, obtrusive, outsider). (various references) | |
Romanian | intrus (meddler), uzurpator (invader, usurper), oaspete nedorit, nepoftit (intrusive, intrusively, marplot, outsider, uninvited, unwelcome, unwished), nechemat (outsider, unbidden, uncalled, uncalled for, uninvited). (various references) | |
Russian | самолет вторжения, злоумышленник (malefactor, malicious penetrator). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgimilear (a vagrant parasite, parasite, vagrant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upadač (invader), nametljivac (busybody, meddler). (various references) | |
Spanish | intruso (gatecrasher, interloper, intrusive, marauder, obtrusive, outsider, trespasser). (various references) | |
Swedish | inkräktare (invader, trespasser, usurper), objuden gäst (gate crasher, gate-crasher). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorla giren şey, davetsiz misafir (gatecrasher, uninvited guest). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нав'язлива людина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người v o bừa. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymwthiwr (interloper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "intruder": intruders. (additional references) | |
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"Intruder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Intrada, intrade, Intraden, intruce, intrudor, intruge, intruse, intueor, untrodden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "intruder" (pronounced i'ntruw"der) |
| 4 | -r uw" d er | ruder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: intrude, runtier, turdine, untired, untried. | |
-2 letters: dunite, durrie, inured, return, rident, ruined, ruiner, tinder, trined, triune, turned, turner, united, uniter, untied. | |
-3 letters: diner, direr, drier, indue, inert, inter, inure, niter, nitre, nuder, nudie, rerun, rider, ruder, rutin, teind, tined, tired, trend, tried, trier, trine, trued, truer, tuned, tuner, under, unite, untie, urine, uteri. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: intruders, undergirt. | |
+2 letters: introducer, surprinted, undershirt, underskirt, undertrick, underwrite. | |
+3 letters: counterraid, hindquarter, incorrupted, interrupted, introducers, reintroduce, rudimentary, thunderbird, underrating, undershirts, underskirts, undertricks, underwriter, underwrites, unirrigated. | |
+4 letters: counterfired, counterraids, hindquarters, jurisprudent, reintroduced, reintroduces, reproduction, thunderbirds, transfigured, ultrarefined, undershirted, understories, underwriters, underwriting, underwritten, unirradiated, unregistered, unrestrained, unrestricted. | |
+5 letters: counterraided, interindustry, jurisprudents, preindustrial, preproduction, recentrifuged, reintroducing, reproductions, rudimentarily, superordinate, thunderstrike, underreacting, understeering, undoctrinaire, uninterrupted. | |
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