Import

Noun

 * 1)  Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
 * 2)  The practice of importing.
 * 3)  Significance, importance.

Synonyms

 * importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weight

Antonyms

 * export
 * export
 * insignificance

Verb

 * 1)  To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
 * 2)  To load a file into a software application for use as a resource in a greater data file.
 * 3)  To mean, signify
 * 4)  To express, to imply.

Derived terms

 * importable
 * important
 * importer
 * importation

Antonyms

 * export

Verb

 * 1)  To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
 * 2) * 1661, Thomas Salusbury:
 * See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
 * 1)  To be of importance to (someone or something).
 * 2) * 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:
 * This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
 * 1)  To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
 * 2) * 1762, David Hume, The History of England:
 * It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
 * 1)  To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
 * 2) * 1819, Shelley, "The Cenci":
 * It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

Adjectives for Import
(meaning)

sinister; serious; mystic; peaceful; physiological; enormous; direful; violent; spiritual;  immediate;   ominous;   mysterious; weighty; reliable; hideous.

Verbs for Import
b contemplate—; convey—; discern—; doubt—; overlook—; question—; value—; weigh—; —amazes; —baffles; —betokens; —disconcerts; —implies; —indicates; —interests; —involves; —perplexes; —states.

Adjectives for Import
(trade)

vast; domestic; agricultural; mineral; excisable; dutiable.

Adverbs for Import
ively; professionally;  domestically; agriculturally; annually; legally.

Thesaurus
accent, acceptation, access, add up to, admission, affective meaning, allegorize, allegory, allude to, allusion, amount to something, arcane meaning, argue, assign, assume, assumption, be construed as, be featured, be prominent, be somebody, be something, bearing, bespeak, betoken, breathe, bring in, bring to mind, carry over, carry weight, coloration, coloring, communicate, communication, concern, concernment, conduction, connotation, connote, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, consign, construction, contagion, convection, convey, count, cut ice, cut some ice, deliver, delivery, denotation, denote, deport, deportation, design, diapedesis, diffuse, diffusion, disseminate, dissemination, drift, effect, emphasis, entail, entrance, entree, entry, essence, excellence, expel, export, exportation, express, expulsion, extension, extradite, extradition, force, get top billing, gist, grammatical meaning, hand forward, hand on, hand over, high order, high rank, hint, idea, impact, impart, implicate, implication, implied meaning, imply, importance, importation, importing, income, incoming, indicate, infer, inference, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, innuendo, input, insertion, insinuate, insinuation, intake, intend, intendment, intension, intent, intention, interchange, interest, interpenetration, interpretation, intimate, intimation, introduce, introduction, introgression, intrusion, involve, ironic suggestion, leakage, lexical meaning, literal meaning, magnitude, make over, mark, materiality, matter, mean, mean to say, meaning, merit, message, metaphorical sense, metastasis, metastasize, metathesis, metathesize, metempsychosis, migration, moment, momentousness, mutual transfer, note, nuance, object, objective, occult meaning, osmosis, overtone, paramountcy, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, passage, passing over, penetration, percolation, perfuse, perfusion, pertinence, pith, point, point indirectly to, practical consequence, precedence, preeminence, presume, presumption, presuppose, presupposition, primacy, priority, purport, purpose, range of meaning, real meaning, reception, refer to, reference, referent, relation, relay, relevance, scope, seepage, self-importance, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, signify, span of meaning, spell, spirit, spread, spreading, stand for, stand out, star, stress, structural meaning, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, suggest, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, superiority, suppose, supposition, supremacy, switch, symbolic meaning, symbolism, symbolize, take for granted, tell, tenor, thrust, tinge, totality of associations, touch, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transfer property, transference, transferred meaning, transfuse, transfusion, transit, transition, translate, translation, translocate, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmit, transmittal, transmittance, transplace, transplacement, transplant, transplantation, transposal, transpose, transposition, travel, turn over, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, undermeaning, understanding, undertone, value, weigh, weight, weightiness, worth

Pronunciation
Noun

Verb

Etymology 1
(verb) From importen: <  importo: < in: + porto:.

Etymology 2
From importare:, and  importer:, from  importo:.

Noun

 * Arabic: استيراد
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: tuontitavara, importti
 * German: Importware, Importgut


 * Greek: εισαγωγή
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: importados
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish: importación
 * Swedish: import, införsel


 * Arabic: استيراد
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: ,
 * Greek: εισαγωγή
 * Japanese: 輸入 (yunyū),
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: : uvoziti
 * Spanish: importación
 * Swedish: import, införsel


 * Dutch: invoervergunning


 * Serbian: uvoznica


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: tärkeys, merkityksellisyys


 * Scottish Gaelic: susbaint
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: importi
 * Estonian: importima, (sisse) tooma
 * Finnish: tuoda (maahan)
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek: εισάγω
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: импортировать and ; ввозить, ввезти
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: importera, föra in
 * Russian: импортировать and ; ввозить, ввезти
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: importera, föra in

Noun

 * 1) import practice of importing
 * 2) An import something brought in from a foreign country

Etymology
From import: <  importare:.

Noun

 * 1) import

Synonyms

 * dovoz

Antonyms

 * export, vývoz

Related terms

 * importér
 * importní
 * importovat

Noun

 * 1) Geographical import

Synonyms

 * invoer

Antonyms

 * export, uitvoer

Related terms

 * importeur

Noun

 * 1) Geographical import

Derived terms

 * importeur

Anagrams

 * promit, promît, rompit, rompît

Noun

 * 1) import

Related terms

 * importera
 * importförbud
 * importtillstånd
 * importtull

Synonyms

 * införsel

Antonyms

 * export