import
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)imports
- commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign countrySynonyms: importationOpposite exportType of commodity, trade goodKinds imported input
- an imported person brought from a foreign country“the lead role was played by an import from Sweden”“they are descendants of indentured importees”Synonyms: importeeType of foreigner, alien
- the message that is intended or expressed or signified“what is the meaning of this sentence?”“the significance of a red traffic light”“the signification of Chinese characters”“the import of his announcement was ambiguous”Synonyms: meaningsignificancesignificationType of message, contentKinds sense, point, moral, nuance, intent, intension, effect, overtone, grammatical meaning, symbolization +2 more
- a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred“the significance of his remark became clear only later”“the expectation was spread both by word and by implication”Synonyms: significanceimplicationType of meaning, substance
- having important effects or influence“decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself”“virtue is of more moment than security”“that result is of no consequence”Synonyms: consequencemomentType of significanceKinds hell to pay, matter
Verb (3)imports, imported, importing
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Translations
Noun practice of importing
- Spanish
- importación
- French
- importation
- German
- Import
- Italian
- importazione
- Portuguese
- importação
- Turkish
- ithalat
- Russian
- и́мпорт ímport
- Arabic
- اِسْتِيرَاد istīrād
- Chinese
- 进口 jìnkǒu
- Japanese
- 輸入 yunyū
19 more languages
- Dutch
- invoer
- Polish
- import
- Swedish
- import
- Greek
- εισαγωγή eisagogí
- Korean
- 수입 su'ip
- Indonesian
- impor
- Vietnamese
- nhập khẩu
- Hungarian
- import
- Portuguese (PT)
- importação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 進口 jìnkǒu
- Catalan
- importació
- Czech
- dovoz
- Danish
- import
- Finnish
- maahantuonti
- Georgian
- იმპორტი imṗorṭi
- Latvian
- imports
- Norwegian
- import
- Romanian
- import
- Welsh
- mewnforio
Verb to bring in from a foreign country
- Spanish
- importar
- French
- importer
- German
- importieren
- Italian
- importare
- Portuguese
- importar
- Russian
- импорти́ровать importírovatʹ
- Arabic
- اِسْتَوْرَدَ istawrada
- Chinese
- 进口 jìnkǒu
- Dutch
- importeren
- Polish
- importować
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. importare to bring in, to occasion, to cause; pref. im- in + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through F. importer, from the Latin. See Port demeanor.
1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; — opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brazil, etc.
2. To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.
Every petition... doth... always import a multitude of speakers together.— Richard Hooker
3. To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.
I have a motion much imports your good.— William Shakespeare
If I endure it, what imports it you?— John Dryden
Synonyms: To denote; mean; signify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest; concern.
To signify; to purport; to be of moment. “For that... importeth to the work.” Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; — generally in the plural, opposed to exports.
I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them.— Edmund Burke
2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.
3. Importance; weight; consequence.
Most serious design, and the great import.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<data> To read data that is not in the native format of the application. For example, a web browser will have its own way of storing bookmarks but it will usually provide a function to import bookmarks from Internet Explorer. The alternative is to provide an independent external conversion utility but this is usually less convenient for the user.
(2004-11-15)