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   In·tent

   /inˈtent/

   

   noun

   • 1. intention or purpose: "with alarm she realized his intent"

   adjective

   • 1. resolved or determined to do (something): "the administration was intent on achieving greater efficiency" Similar bentsetdeterminedinsistentfixedresolvedhell-bentkeenfirm aboutcommitted tosingle-minded aboutinflexible aboutobsessive aboutobsessed withfanatical aboutfixated ondetermined toresolved toanxious toimpatient toOpposite halfheartedreluctant
   • ▪ attentively occupied with: "Jill was intent on her gardening magazine" Similar attentiveabsorbedengrossedfascinatedenthralledenraptraptfocusedearnestconcentratedconcentratingintensestudiousfixedsteadysteadfastoccupiedpreoccupiedwrapped upalertwatchfulobservantOpposite vacant
   • 2. (especially of a look) showing earnest and eager attention: "a curiously intent look on her face"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French entent, entente, based on Latin intendere (see intend). The adjective is from Latin intentus, past participle of intendere.

   Derivatives

   • 1. intentness noun

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   What are some examples of intents?

   • Define a set of intents that corresponds to actions users want to take in your application. For example, a travel app would have several intents: "What's the weather like in Boston?" "Did the Lakers win?" All applications come with the predefined intent, "None", which is the fallback intent.

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   What is the purpose of intents?

   • An Intent is a messaging object you can use to request an action from another app component . Although intents facilitate communication between components in several ways, there are three fundamental use cases: An Activity represents a single screen in an app. You can start a new instance of an Activity by passing an Intent to startActivity () .

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   What is the difference between intents and intense?

   • aims, purposes; intentions: His intents are to be rich and famous. intense – in an extreme degree; straining; profoundly earnest: He is intense when it comes to writing his novel. Want to thank TFD for its existence?

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   What are the synonyms for intents?

   • intention, intent, purpose, design, aim, end, object, objective, goal mean what one intends to accomplish or attain. intention implies little more than what one has in mind to do or bring about.

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   Intent definition: something that someone is intending or meaning to do or achieve; purpose or objective. See examples of INTENT used in a sentence.

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   Define Intent. In contrast, “intent” refers to the underlying motivation or purpose behind an action or decision. It delves deeper into the psychological or emotional aspect of why someone is driven to do something.

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   to be determined to do or achieve something: She seems intent on winning this year's tennis tournament. giving a lot of attention to something: She had an intent look on her face.

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   The meaning of INTENT is a usually clearly formulated or planned intention : aim. How to use intent in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Intent.

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