About The Word Intelligence
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Intelligence
| Intelligence Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Intelligence?
[n] the operation of gathering information about an enemy
[n] the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
[n] new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"
[n] secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage"
[n] a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
Synonyms | Synonyms for Intelligence: intelligence activity |
intelligence information |
intelligence operation |
news |
tidings |
word
Related Terms | Find terms related to Intelligence: account |
acquaintance |
acumen |
advice |
alertness |
announcement |
apprehension |
aptitude |
aptness |
astuteness |
atua |
blue book |
brain |
brains |
briefing |
brightness |
broadcast journalism |
bugging |
bulletin |
capacity |
clairvoyance |
cleverness |
cloak-and-dagger work |
command |
common sense |
communication |
communique |
comprehension |
conception |
conceptualization |
consciousness |
corpus |
counterespionage |
counterintelligence |
daemon |
data |
datum |
demon |
directory |
discernment |
discourse of reason |
discretion |
discursive reason |
dispatch |
docility |
dope |
educability |
electronic surveillance |
enlightenment |
espial |
espionage |
esprit |
evidence |
evil spirits |
experience |
expertise |
facility |
facts |
factual base |
factual information |
familiarity |
familiarization |
findings |
following |
foreknowledge |
gen |
general information |
genius |
grasp |
gray matter |
grip |
guidebook |
handout |
hard information |
head |
headpiece |
ideation |
impressionability |
incidental information |
info |
information |
inside |
insight |
instruction |
intellect |
intellection |
intellectual |
intellectual faculty |
intelligence bureau |
intelligence service |
intelligence work |
intimacy |
journalism |
judgment |
keenness |
ken |
know-how |
knowing |
knowledge |
light |
low-down |
malleability |
mastery |
mens |
mental capacity |
mental grasp |
mentality |
mention |
message |
military intelligence |
mind |
moldability |
mother wit |
motivation |
naval intelligence |
news |
news agency |
news medium |
news service |
newsiness |
newsletter |
newsmagazine |
newspaper |
newsworthiness |
notice |
notification |
nous |
observation |
perception |
percipience |
perspicaciousness |
perspicacity |
plasticity |
pliability |
poop |
power of reason |
practical knowledge |
precognition |
prehension |
presentation |
press association |
private knowledge |
privity |
promotional material |
proof |
psyche |
publication |
publicity |
quickness |
radio |
ratio |
ratio cognoscendi |
rationality |
readiness |
reason |
reasoning |
reasoning faculty |
receptivity |
release |
report |
reportage |
sagacity |
savvy |
secret police |
secret service |
self-knowledge |
sense |
shadowing |
shrewdness |
sidelight |
smarts |
specter |
spirit |
spying |
stakeout |
statement |
supernatural being |
surveillance |
susceptibility |
tailing |
teachability |
teachableness |
technic |
technics |
technique |
telegraph agency |
television |
the dope |
the fourth estate |
the goods |
the know |
the press |
the scoop |
tidings |
trailing |
trainableness |
transmission |
understanding |
Vernunft |
white book |
white paper |
willingness |
wire service |
wiretap |
wiretapping |
wisdom |
wise man |
wit |
word
See Also | ability |
acuity |
acuteness |
administrative body |
administrative unit |
astuteness |
brain |
brainpower |
breadth |
brightness |
brilliance |
clandestine operation |
cleverness |
combat intelligence |
comprehensiveness |
counterintelligence |
current intelligence |
genius |
good word |
info |
information |
information gathering |
intellect |
keenness |
learning ability |
mental capacity |
mental quickness |
mentality |
mind |
nonverbal intelligence |
overt operation |
perspicaciousness |
perspicacity |
power |
precociousness |
precocity |
quickness |
quick-wittedness |
reconnaissance |
sharpness |
shrewdness |
SIGINT |
signals intelligence |
smartness |
spying |
strategic intelligence |
tactical intelligence |
undercover work |
update |
verbal intelligence |
wit
Intelligence In Webster's Dictionary
\In*tel"li*gence\, n. [F. intelligence, L.
intelligentia, intellegentia. See {Intelligent}.]
1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the
understanding.
2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of
comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.
--Spenser.
3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid. --Shak.
4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.]
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any
friendship with the favorites. --Clarendon.
5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study,
research, or experience; general information.
I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath,
ne flowers of sentence. --Court of
Love.
6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to
pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. --Milton.
The great Intelligences fair That range above our
mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there. --Tennyson.
{Intelligence office}, an office where information may be
obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
Syn: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice;
notification; news; information; report.
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