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# intended

verb, past form of intend (intend, intends, intended, intending); adjective

«intended» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Intended means planned or meant: «I intended to call you». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#m1)
2. Meant for a particular person or use: «The film is intended for children». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#m2)
3. (old-fashioned) Someone's intended is the person they plan to marry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#m3)

### In the lessons

Used in stories and everyday talk about plans, and on labels («intended for ages 6+»). Phrases: «intended for», «as intended», «intended to».

### Examples

- I intended to finish my homework, but I fell asleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x1)
- This toy is intended for children over three. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x2)
- The joke was not intended to hurt anyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x3)
- The plan worked as intended. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x4)
- The letter was intended for my sister. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x5)
- The bridge was intended to last a long time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x6)
- I intended to get a more perfect specimen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/#x7)

### Note

Pattern: intend to + verb. Noun: intention. Labels like «not intended for children under 3» are safety warnings about small parts.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Translators use it to say what the text means, or what its readers probably meant, when the Hebrew can be read in more than one way. In the primary lessons: Used in stories and everyday talk about plans, and on labels («intended for ages 6+»). Phrases: «intended for», «as intended», «intended to».

### Examples

- What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intended/#x1)
- If the sphere be rotated forward, good is implied, if in a retrograde manner evil is intended. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intended/#x2)
- The expression בְּלִי\[\]מָה beli\[-\]mah can be understood as either one word or two, with both readings being plausible and perhaps intended, and manuscripts commonly varying between the one- and two-word renditions. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intended/#x3)
- For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail. (Writings PSA.21.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intended/#x4)

### Note

Pattern: intend to + verb. Noun: intention. Labels like «not intended for children under 3» are safety warnings about small parts.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «intended» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intended/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«intended» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/intended.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «intended» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/intended/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«intended» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/intended.html) on Mova free.