intense vs intent

intense

Definitions

adjective

  1. extremely sharp or severe
  2. possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
  3. (of color) having the highest saturation

Examples

The stable oily liquid, which absorbs intense heat, was used as a coolant for electrical transformers and capacitors.

enemy fire was intense

Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear.

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intent

Definitions

noun

  1. the intended meaning of a communication
  2. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

adjective

  1. giving or marked by complete attention to

Examples

While maintaining a level of accessibility and providing information are important, this must not dumb the work down, compromise the artists' intentions, or remove the challenge aspect of art that many people thrive on.

I did not have intent to imply that homeschooling is like public school, but that public school directs what a child learns and when and unschooling does not.

How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution.

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