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Intelligence vs. Intellectual

Intelligence and Intellectual Definitions

Intelligence

The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge
A person of extraordinary intelligence.

Intellectual

Of or relating to the intellect.

Intelligence

Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.

Intellectual

Rational rather than emotional
An intellectual decision.

Intelligence

The gathering of such information
"Corporate intelligence relies on a slew of tools, some sophisticated, many quite basic" (Neil King and Jess Bravin).

Intellectual

Appealing to or engaging the intellect
An intellectual book.
An intellectual problem.
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Intelligence

An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information
An officer from military intelligence.

Intellectual

Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree.

Intelligence

An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.

Intellectual

Given to activities or pursuits that require exercise of the intellect.

Intelligence

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

Intellectual

An intellectual person.
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Intelligence

The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

Intellectual

Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
Intellectual powers, activities, etc.

Intelligence

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Intellectual

Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
An intellectual person

Intelligence

, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.

Intellectual

Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
Intellectual employments
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Intelligence

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

Intellectual

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
Intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy

Intelligence

(dated) acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Intellectual

Spiritual.

Intelligence

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Intellectual

An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

Intelligence

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.

Intellectual

(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Intelligence

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid.

Intellectual

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers.

Intelligence

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.

Intellectual

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Who would lose,Though full of pain, this intellectual being,Those thoughts that wander through eternity?

Intelligence

Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
I write as he that none intelligenceOf meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.

Intellectual

Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

Intelligence

An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
The great Intelligences fairThat range above our mortal state,In circle round the blessed gate,Received and gave him welcome there.

Intellectual

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

Intelligence

The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.

Intellectual

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise.

Intelligence

The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

Intellectual

A learned person or one of high intelligence;

Intelligence

A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

Intellectual

A person who uses the mind creatively

Intelligence

Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);
We sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage

Intellectual

Of or relating to the intellect;
His intellectual career

Intelligence

New information about specific and timely events;
They awaited news of the outcome

Intellectual

Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind;
Intellectual problems
The triumph of the rational over the animal side of man

Intelligence

The operation of gathering information about an enemy

Intellectual

Appealing to or using the intellect;
Satire is an intellectual weapon
Intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor
Has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people
Coldly intellectual
Sort of the intellectual type
Intellectual literature

Intellectual

Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct;
A cerebral approach to the problem
Cerebral drama

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