Intelligence

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  • noun. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.
  • noun. The gathering of such information.
  • noun. An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information.
  • noun. An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To convey intelligence; tell tales; tattle.
  • noun. The quality of being intelligent; understanding; intellect; power of cognition.
  • noun. Cultivated understanding; acquired knowledge; information stored up in the mind.
  • noun. Exercise of superior understanding; address; skill: as, he performed his mission with much intelligence.
  • noun. Mutual understanding; interchange of information or sentiment; intelligent intercourse; as, a glance of intelligence passed between them; to have intelligence with the enemy.
  • noun. Information received or imparted; communicated knowledge; news: as, intelligence of a shipwreck.
  • noun. An intelligent being; intellectual existence; concrete understanding: as, God is the Supreme Intelligence.
  • noun. Advice, Tidings, etc. (see news), notification.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
  • noun. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
  • noun. Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
  • noun. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
  • noun. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
  • noun. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits.
  • noun. The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.
  • noun. an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.
  • noun. An entity that has such capacities.
  • noun. Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  • noun. A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)
  • noun. the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
  • noun. a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
  • noun. information about recent and important events
  • noun. the operation of gathering information about an enemy
  • Word Usage
    "My state of mind, which refers ... he proceeds to argue that the whole _either_ to unseen he himself is outside its intelligence, _or something sacred pale because he refers which man has never had any all these strange phenomena to conception of_, proves me to _unseen spiritual be out of the pale of the intelligence_."
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