Word Finder - intelligence

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Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.

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An entity that has such capacities.

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Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

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A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

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Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

I'm sure a woman with intelligence will shock you.

Does our intelligence demand unity?

Allen couldn't be rejected, so he belittled her intelligence, the close relationship with her family and accused her of cheating on him.

The soulless, ancient intelligence there was as fathomless as the night sky.

All intelligence seems reflected in them.

My intelligence far surpasses any of you worthless scum.

In this instance it may happen that the work of intelligence has only been mimicked in nature by blind forces which have accidentally produced organic life; and Mill is disposed to hold that if the evolution of species should be clearly established as due to natural law - if there has been no creation by special interposition - the argument falls to the ground and theism (apparently) is lost.

The children are possessed of a bright intelligence, which, however, soon reaches its climax, and the adult may be compared in this respect with the civilized child of ten or twelve.

It now remains my pleasant task to direct and mould the beautiful intelligence that is beginning to stir in the child-soul.

He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else.

Aristotle held that the vas or active intelligence alone is immortal.

Experience forbids our excluding organic activity from natural causes, also our excluding intelligence from purposeful (zwecktdtigen) causes; hence experience forbids our defining the fundamental force or first cause out of which living creatures arose.'

Care and intelligence are especially needful with certain insecticides such as poisonous gases, or the operators may suffer.

A child is born with a certain intelligence quotient.

It was, then, to a good subject that Miss Sullivan brought her devotion and intelligence, and fearless willingness to experiment.

Whether the intelligence and efficiency of the officials charged by the state with the handling of its railway system will be sufficient to make them act in the interest of the public as fully as do the managers of private corporations, is a question whose answer can only be determined by actual experience in each case.

Whether or not further study of the scripts of these writers confirms this hypothesis, it cannot fail to throw light on the nature of the intelligence involved.

False reports were assiduously circulated by the intelligence department.

Of a quick and cultivated intelligence, he had a sincere love of letters and art.

The primitive condition of all intelligence is that the ego shall posit, affirm or be aware of itself.

Post office statistics indicate a similarly high average of intelligence.

The virtues of a scribe are honesty and care (or in a single word fidelity) and intelligence.

Intelligence does not differ from sense by having no bodily organ, but the nervous system is the bodily organ of both.

To this study he looked for the best hope of such a progressive development of Christian theology as should avert the danger arising from " the apparently increasing divergence between the intelligence and the faith of our time."

For this reason the book is at once the most brilliant and the most difficult of Hegel's works - the most brilliant because it is to some degree an autobiography of Hegel's mind - not the abstract record of a logical evolution, but the real history of an intellectual growth; the most difficult because, instead of treating the rise of intelligence (from its first appearance in contrast with the real world to its final recognition of its presence in, and rule over, all things) as a purely subjective process, it exhibits this rise as wrought out in historical epochs, national characteristics, forms of culture and faith, and philosophical systems. The theme is identical with the introduction to the Encyklopddie; but it is treated in a very different style.

Luther had a high opinion of her intelligence; she took rank among those consulted on all important occasions; in one letter to her, seldom quoted, he gives the fairest statement he ever made about the views of Zwingli on the Sacrament of the Supper.

Onias is described - in order to enhance the glory of Joseph - as a man of small intelligence and deficient in wealth.

The same thing holds for the intelligence service in which Stalin sees the quintessence of the state.

Sonyâs developments in artificial intelligence have also allowed us to develop QRIO, the prototype humanoid robot.

Nain Singh gave an account of his journeys, and of his residence there, which, though brief, is full of intelligence and interest.

What would happen, do you think, if some one should try to measure our intelligence by our ability to define the commonest words we use?

While not confining myself to any special system of instruction, I have tried to add to her general information and intelligence, to enlarge her acquaintance with things around her, and to bring her into easy and natural relations with people.

But, with all her eagerness and intelligence, learning to speak taxed her powers to the utmost.

This is because they are programmed with artificial intelligence.

The differences in appearance between the caterpillar and the butterfly, striking as they are to the eye, do not sufficiently represent the phenomena of metamorphosis to the intelligence.

The people, though remarkable for their intelligence whilst Europe was in a state of barbarism, made no approximation to the mechanical operations of modern times, nor was the cultivation of cotton either improved or considerably extended.

The brain is relatively large and the intelligence high.

He has no claim to be regarded as a genius; but, as SainteBeuve has said, he well deserves a place "da p s la classe des esprits infiniment distingues" - distinguished, however, it ought to be added by intelligence rather than by intellect, and less by the power of saying much than by the power of saying a little well.

In the year 1215 the barons having received intelligence secretly that they might enter London with ease through Aldgate, which was then in a very ruinous state, removed their camp from Bedford to Ware, and shortly after marched into the city in the night-time.

He is represented as the god and creator of good, light, intelligence, in perpetual opposition to Ahriman the lord of evil, darkness and ignorance.

The quantities for India have been computed from information furnished by the India office, and publications made under authority of the secretary of state and the commercial intelligence department of the Indian government.

The guinea-pig is a singularly inoffensive and defenceless creature, of a restless disposition, and wanting in that intelligence which usually characterizes domestic pets, although said to show some discrimination.

What the tree is in itself - that is, for a perfect intelligence - we cannot know, any more than a dog or horse can know what the tree is for a human intelligence.

That strenuous application which was one of his most remarkable gifts in manhood showed itself in his youth, and his application was backed or inspired by superior intelligence and aptness.

Such sympathy with youthful hope, in union with industry and intelligence, shows that Comte's dry and austere manner veiled the fires of a generous social emotion.

With this may be compared a passage in the Ursprung der Sprache, where there is a curious adumbration of Spencer's idea that intelligence, as distinguished from instinct, arises from a growing complexity of action, or, to use Herder's words, from the substitution of a more for a less contracted sphere.

He was a robust man, and inherited his father's love of violent exercise; but his character was weak and his intelligence mediocre, and he had none of the superficial and brilliant gifts of Francis I.

The most conspicuous were the Nichi Nichi Shimbun (Daily News), the Yilbin Hoc/il (Postal Intelligence), the Choya Shimbun (Government and People News), the Akebono Shimbun (The Dawn), and the Mainichi Shimbun (Daily News).

Rhinoceroses are of large size and massive build, but have little intelligence, and are generally timid in disposition, though ferocious when wounded or brought to bay.

The spiritual sun is the source of love and intelligence, or life, and the natural sun the source of nature or the receptacles of life; the first is alive, the second dead.