import
See also: Import
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmʹpôt, IPA(key): /ˈɪm.pɔːt/
- (General American) enPR: ĭmʹpôrt, IPA(key): /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmʹpōrt, IPA(key): /ˈɪm.po(ː)ɹt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈɪm.poət/
Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmpôtʹ, IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɔːt/
- (General American) enPR: ĭmpôrtʹ, IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹt/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmpōrtʹ, IPA(key): /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpoət/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology 1
From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).
Noun
import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)
- (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
- (uncountable) The practice of importing.
- (uncountable) Significance, importance.
- It was a matter of great import.
Synonyms
- (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight
Antonyms
- (practice of importing): export
- (something brought in from a foreign country): export
- insignificance
Translations
something brought in from a foreign country
practice of importing
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licence for import
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significance, importance
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Verb
import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:import.
Antonyms
- (bring in from a foreign country): export
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
to bring in from a foreign country
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Verb
import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)
- (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury:
- See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury:
- (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
- 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:
- This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
- Dryden
- If I endure it, what imports it you?
- 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:
- (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- 1762, David Hume, The History of England:
- It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
- 1762, David Hume, The History of England:
- (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- 1819, Shelley, "The Cenci":
- It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
- 1819, Shelley, "The Cenci":
- (transitive) To mean, signify.
- Hooker
- Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.
- Hooker
- (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.
References
- “import” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Czech
Synonyms
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Synonyms
Related terms
- importeur m
French
Derived terms
- importeur m
Further reading
- “import” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈimport]
- Hyphenation: im‧port
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | import | importok |
accusative | importot | importokat |
dative | importnak | importoknak |
instrumental | importtal | importokkal |
causal-final | importért | importokért |
translative | importtá | importokká |
terminative | importig | importokig |
essive-formal | importként | importokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | importban | importokban |
superessive | importon | importokon |
adessive | importnál | importoknál |
illative | importba | importokba |
sublative | importra | importokra |
allative | importhoz | importokhoz |
elative | importból | importokból |
delative | importról | importokról |
ablative | importtól | importoktól |
Possessive forms of import | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | importom | importjaim |
2nd person sing. | importod | importjaid |
3rd person sing. | importja | importjai |
1st person plural | importunk | importjaink |
2nd person plural | importotok | importjaitok |
3rd person plural | importjuk | importjaik |
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǐmport/
- Hyphenation: i‧mport
Noun
ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ѝмпорт)
Declension
Swedish
Declension
Declension of import | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | import | importen | — | — |
Genitive | imports | importens | — | — |
Synonyms
- införsel
Antonyms
Related terms
- importera
- importförbud
- importtillstånd
- importtull
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