Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - intend

(intends, intending, intended) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you intend to do something, you have decided or planned to do it. She intends to do A levels and go to university... I didn’t intend coming to Germany to work... We had always intended that the new series would be live. VERB: V to-inf, V -ing, V that 2. If something is intended for a particular purpose, it has been planned to fulfil that purpose. If something is intended for a particular person, it has been planned to be used by that person or to affect them in some way. This money is intended for the development of the tourist industry... Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status... Originally, Hatfield had been intended as a leisure complex. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed for n, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed as n 3. If you intend a particular idea or feeling in something that you say or do, you want to express it or want it to be understood. He didn’t intend any sarcasm... Burke’s response seemed a little patronizing, though he undoubtedly hadn’t intended it that way... This sounds like a barrage of accusation–I don’t intend it to be... I think he intended it as a put-down comment. = mean VERB: V n, V n n, V n to-inf, V n prep