(a.) Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
(a.) Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
(n.) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(2) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(3) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(4) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.
(5) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
(6) The crucial issue of whether subtle behavioral, intellectual, and developmental impairment occurs in young children, as a result of lead-induced CNS damage is discussed in detail.
(7) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
(8) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(9) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(10) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(11) The wealth of new information on BBM transport of Pi which has accumulated in recent years gives an indication of the importance and intellectual challenge that the mechanism of this process poses to investigators.
(12) He also raised questions about whether the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide , could better exploit its intellectual property.
(13) Specific features of cognitive impairment distinguished the four groups of patients once they were matched for level of intellectual deterioration.
(14) Memory is one of the central intellectual functions characteristic of human behavior.
(15) The hypothesis that a measure of intellectual speed assessed at one point in time would predict intellectual achievement at a later point in time was evaluated with a time-lagged cross-correlational analysis, an application of causal modeling techniques.
(16) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(17) "But it proves how deep this patriarchal culture is in our minds that even intellectual people were so happy to say, 'Ah, there is a man!'
(18) During the winter term, at rest an increase in the amplitude of the first seismocardiographic complex and a decrease in the amplitude of the second one are observed in most of the students, that is, probably, connected with the emotional and intellectual factors of the session period.
(19) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(20) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.
Nerd
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(2) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
(3) On 5th Gear, from 2007, he talked about internet nerds reinventing themselves through social media, and offered an intentionally redneck perspective on the battle of the sexes in the deliberately gauche I'm Still a Guy.
(4) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
(5) This target audience includes not just those young people taking part in state-sponsored sports and defence training or patriotic youth groups, but also nerds who love western videogames and superheroes.
(6) "I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private," he said.
(7) Whereas Crow tended to rely on his rhetoric and his street-fighter smarts, Whelan is more of a data nerd – part barrow boy, part actuary.
(8) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(9) There was already a perception that Ed Miliband was too geeky, too much of an unworldly politics nerd, to have a realistic chance of power.
(10) Worldly-wise but digi-ignorant, the Vaughn-Wilson jock explosion throw in their lot with the socially maladjusted nerdly-wise virgins and soon enough, with the help of code-writing lessons for the oldies and lap dances for the virgin-geeks, they all learn to get along.
(11) And it would be nothing short of condescending for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher to have concocted some fictional spunky-girl nerd character or a wise female comp sci professor in an attempt to make their film more female-friendly.
(12) "Adam had this typical nerd look: belts, tucked-in shirt.
(13) There are duelling nerds in sports jackets and a panicky associate producer (inevitably and infuriatingly female) who is smarter than her ditzy persona would have you believe.
(14) 2.16pm BST Moyes music I'm something of a music nerd, so do keep the suggestions for Dave's iPod coming.
(15) "Really in those early days the web was just for nerds like me, if you wanted some tech advice or needed to find out how to do something.
(16) And for those who think interplanetary exploration is just nonsense for space nerds, the same lessons could surely be applied closer to home.
(17) So then I grew up and I stopped taking nerd-drugs, and about the same time, Starbucks opened in the UK, whereupon I took to getting double espressos, except they were never big enough.
(18) The open source community are geeks and nerds and they created the current inequality in technology.'
(19) June 18, 2014 2.13pm BST Paul Doyle has spent the last few hours in a dark corner of the office, nerding it up on Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.
(20) His conclusion is a call to arms: "We need some angry nerds" – people capable of breaking out of the walled gardens.