From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.
intern (plural interns)
- A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
intern (third-person singular simple present interns, present participle interning, simple past and past participle interned)
- (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
1989 October 15, Vivien Raynor, “Interned Artists, Devoid of Grievance”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:That description was of a camp at the Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco, one of several centers in California where Japanese and Japanese-American residents (Issei and Nisei) were held before being interned in areas remote from the West Coast.
1989 December 10, Herbert Daniel, “An Open Letter To Fidel Castro”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:Cuba could take pride in its health system. It could, that is, if it weren't for the way it treats those who test positive [for HIV], whether sick or not, interning them in an isolation that has no medical justification, that is against all scientific direction and is a frontal assault on all human rights.
- (of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
- (transitive, programming) To internalize.
2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 81:Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code.
intern (comparative more intern, superlative most intern)
- (archaic) Internal.
From French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”); compare etymology 1.
intern (plural interns)
- A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
1994 November 6, William Goss, “Interning For Pleasure And Profit”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:Students know that working as an intern can provide contacts and all-important experience in their chosen fields. And last year, 26 percent of graduates hired by companies had worked as interns, compared with 9 percent the year before.
- A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.
student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
- Arabic: مُتَدَرِّب m (mutadarrib)
- Armenian: պրակտիկանտ (hy) (praktikant), փորձնակ (hy) (pʻorjnak), ինթերն (intʻern)
- Catalan: becari (ca) m, becària (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 實習生/实习生 (zh) (shíxíshēng)
- Czech: stážista m
- Danish: praktikant (da) c
- Dutch: stagiair (nl) m
- Esperanto: staĝanto
- Finnish: työharjoittelija, harjoittelija (fi)
- French: stagiaire (fr)
- German: Praktikant (de) m, Praktikantin (de) f
- Hungarian: gyakornok (hu)
- Italian: stagista (it)
- Japanese: 実習生 (じっしゅうせい, jisshūsei), インターン (intān)
- Kazakh: тағылымгер (tağylymger)
- Korean: 인턴 (ko) (inteon), 실습생(實習生) (ko) (silseupsaeng)
- Macedonian: стажа́нт m (stažánt), стажа́нтка f (stažántka), практика́нт m (praktikánt), практика́нтка f (praktikántka), при́правник m (prípravnik), припра́вничка f (priprávnička)
- Norwegian: praktikant m
- Persian: کارآموز (fa) (kâr-âmuz), انترن (fa) (antern), کارورز (fa) (kâr-varz) (rare)
- Portuguese: estagiário (pt) m, estagiária f
- Russian: стажёр (ru) m (stažór), стажёрка (ru) f (stažórka), практика́нт (ru) m (praktikánt), практика́нтка (ru) f (praktikántka), инте́рн (ru) m (intɛ́rn)
- Spanish: pasante (es) m or f, practicante (es) m or f, persona en prácticas f, interno (es) m, becario (es) m
- Swedish: praktikant (sv) c
- Thai: ผู้ฝึกงาน (pûu-fʉ̀k-ngaan)
- Turkish: stajyer (tr)
- Yiddish: פּראַקטיקאַנט m (praktikant), פּראַקטיקאַנטקע f (praktikantke)
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medical trainee working in a hospital
intern (third-person singular simple present interns, present participle interning, simple past and past participle interned)
- (intransitive) To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.
Borrowed from Latin internus.
intern (feminine interna, masculine plural interns, feminine plural internes)
- internal
- Antonym: extern
intern m (plural interns, feminine interna)
- (medicine) intern
- (education) boarder
From English intern or English internship.
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intern (Hong Kong Cantonese, American (1980–))
- intern (Classifier: 個/个 c)
不論是NG還是intern,都是非常缺乏面試經驗的 [MSC, trad.]
不论是NG还是intern,都是非常缺乏面试经验的 [MSC, simp.]- bùlùn shì NG háishì intern, dōu shì fēicháng quēfá miànshì jīngyàn de [Pinyin]
- Regardless if they are new graduates or intern, they all lack interview experience.
- internship (Classifier: 份 c)
三年工作經驗找不到intern [MSC, trad.]
三年工作经验找不到intern [MSC, simp.]- sān nián gōngzuò jīngyàn zhǎo bù dào intern [Pinyin]
- Can't find an internship with three-year working experience.
intern (neuter internt, plural and definite singular attributive interne)
- internal
From French interne (“inner, internal”), or directly from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”).
intern (comparative interner, superlative internst)
- internal, inside of something, of the body etc.
- Synonym: inwendig
- Antonyms: extern, uitwendig
intern (strong nominative masculine singular interner, not comparable)
- internal
Positive forms of intern (uncomparable)
- “intern” in Duden online
- “intern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
From Dutch intern, from French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”).
- IPA(key): [ˈɪntɛr(ə)n]
- Hyphenation: in‧tèrn
intern
- internal.
- Synonym: internal
From Latin internus.
intern (neuter singular internt, definite singular and plural interne)
- internal
From Latin internus.
intern (neuter singular internt, definite singular and plural interne)
- internal
French interne, Latin internus
intern m or n (feminine singular internă, masculine plural interni, feminine and neuter plural interne)
- internal
- Antonym: extern
From Latin internus.
intern (not comparable)
- internal, something of no relevance for outsiders
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1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic
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intern c
- a prisoner, an inmate