Intelligence
[ɪn'telɪdʒ(ə)ns] or [ɪn'tɛlɪdʒəns]
Definition
(noun.) the operation of gathering information about an enemy.
(noun.) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience.
(noun.) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); 'we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage'.
(noun.) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy.
Checked by Jo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
(n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
(n.) Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
(n.) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
(n.) Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
(n.) An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
Edited by Hamilton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Information, knowledge, acquired knowledge.[2]. News, tidings, advice, notice, notification, instruction.[3]. Spirit, spiritual being.
Edited by Aaron
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Understanding, apprehension, comprehension, conception, announcement, report,rumor, tidings, news, information, publication, {intellectual_capacity}, mind,knowledge, advice, notice, instruction, intellect
ANT:Misunderstanding, misinformation, misconception, stupidity, dullness,suppression, ignorance, darkness, concealment, silence, nonpublication,misguidance, misintelligence, misreport, misapprehension
Editor: Pasquale
Examples
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I found the Blue Boar in possession of the intelligence, and I found that it made a great change in the Boar's demeanour. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Signs of intelligence seemed to pass between them, and Pitt spoke with her on subjects on which he never thought of discoursing with Lady Jane. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What superior intelligence! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And therefore, I said, as we might expect, there is nothing here which invites or excites intelligence. Plato. The Republic.
- We have already told something of the first appearance of the free intelligence, the spirit of inquiry and plain statement, in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Intelligence and spirit are not often combined with steadiness; the stolid, fearless, nature is averse to intellectual toil. Plato. The Republic.
- Thomas's intelligence seemed over. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You are a man of intelligence. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She paused with a slight falter of embarrassment, and Trenor, turning abruptly, fixed on her a look of growing intelligence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was the truth of all things, and also the light in which they shone forth, and became evident to intelligences human and divine. Plato. The Republic.
- It is beyond all dispute the achievement of one of the most penetrating intelligences the world has ever known. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A something which all arts and sciences and intelligences use in common, and which every one first has to learn among the elements of education. Plato. The Republic.
- Even highly critical and insurgent intelligences, in default of any sustaining movements in the soul of the community, betrayed the same disposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was aware that his method tended to the ignoring of genius and to the putting of intelligences on on e level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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