(a.) Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.
(a.) Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.
(a.) Gognizant; aware; communicate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(3) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
(4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(5) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
(6) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
(7) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
(8) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(9) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(10) Groups were similar with respect to age, sex, school experience, family income, housing, primary language spoken, and nonverbal intelligence.
(11) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(12) He believes the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has enough powers to do its job.
(13) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(14) The 83 survivors of a consecutive series of children with spina bifida cystica, born between 1963 and 1971 and treated non-selectively since birth, were assessed by intelligence and developmental testing.
(15) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
(16) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(17) Gibson's conclusions and the question he says now need to be address will make uncomfortable reading for former heads of the UK's intelligence agencies and for ministers of the last Labour government.
(18) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
(19) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
(20) He had been moved from a civilian prison to the country's intelligence HQ, leading Mansfield to question whether there was a disagreement among Syrian authorities about the fate of Khan.
Studious
Definition:
(a.) Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.
(a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.
(a.) Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.
(a.) Planned with study; deliberate; studied.
(a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.
Example Sentences:
(1) V&A museum project boosted by billionaire's donation Read more The studious reproduction of museum exhibits has long been a fundamental part of art education – a means of honing drawing skills and offering deeper ways of looking.
(2) This was an easier job than it might have been because Moore studiously cultivated a bad-boy image via any outlet available to him.
(3) Though the FBI’s request studiously avoids asking Apple to directly decrypt Farook’s data or hand over his key, the debate is the same: can law enforcement compel tech companies to provide the means to access consumers’ data?
(4) Cameron studiously avoided discussing the morality of the Great War, or the long Conservative historiography, including Alan Clark, Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts, that has condemned the war as a catastrophic failure by a political and military elite – the conscripted lions notoriously led by the callous and unthinking donkeys dining behind the trenches.
(5) Because the reality is if it were not for the food banks and faith groups plugging the gaps left by the state, we would have had people starving.” In its formal response, the government studiously avoided any references to benefit delays and low pay.
(6) Fifty Shades Of Grey is about a shy, studious, 21-year-old virgin who, in exchange for being repeatedly beaten on the clitoris with a hairbrush, gets an iPad and a go on Christian Grey 's helicopter.
(7) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(8) "The point here, which the government is studiously missing is that the best defence for Britain lies, not in action on the domestic front, but on the international one.
(9) Linehan wrote the script with the memory of the film ringing in his head rather than studiously watching it again and again.
(10) First, the TV White House has studiously avoided taking sides in the clash.
(11) We had been studiously avoiding coverage of Madonna's latest trip to Malawi, but such is the deliciousness of the excoriating 11-point press release put out yesterday by Joyce Banda that we couldn't resist wading in.
(12) Felipe has spent most of his last days as prince studiously working on his first speech to the nation as king, according to reports.
(13) A studious man in his 60s, Ramsey has spent decades collecting more than 27,000 samples of narcotics, which he has meticulously catalogued, labelled and hidden away in huge sliding drawers.
(14) Vieira is a more studious figure than Gullit of course, and comes steeped in the ways of the CFG project.
(15) A studious, intellectually inclined teenager, he was a devoted fan of the recently inaugurated Third Programme.
(16) They met as undergraduates in the humanities department at Columbia University and the studiousness remains.
(17) The issue of sanctions was just one where Trump – who made reference to his Scottish mother – and May studiously avoided overt disagreement.
(18) Fears and hopes of how a Corbyn victory will change British politics Read more To the relief of the southern middle classes, the chancellor announces, with a sideways glance at Corbyn, whose expression is studiously neutral, that there is to be no increase in the top rate of taxation.
(19) National anthems to be sung, crowd posturing to be done, huddles to be had, NFL field markings to be studiously ignored (I mean, really?
(20) He studiously ignored reporters as his hands became smeared with blue ink from the pictures and stickers thrust his way to sign.