import

English

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Import (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmʹpôt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔːt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (General American) enPR: ĭmʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmʹpōrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.poət/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmpôtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːt/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

• (General American) enPR: ĭmpôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmpōrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoət/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).

Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

import

Wikipedia

import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)

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

   It was a matter of great import.

   • 2023 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “Hope springs eternal for greater use of the Channel Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 999, page 26:

     There is, too, a little mentioned aspect of the tunnel which contributes to its failings. You never see the sea while approaching it from either the British or French side. That takes away from the import of the journey - a historic link between Britain and the continent. Instead, it is just a tunnel.

4. (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

Synonyms

• (the practice of importing): importation
• (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "practice of importing"): export
• (antonym(s) of "something brought in from a foreign country"): export
• insignificance

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

   Antonym: export

   Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.

2. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

   Antonym: export

   How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:import.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin importō.

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.

2. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
   • 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:

     This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.

   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. , London: Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     If I endure it, what imports it you?

3. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
   • 1762, David Hume, The History of England:

     It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

4. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
   • 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci:

     It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.

6. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

import m inan

1. import

   Synonym: dovoz

   Antonyms: export, vývoz

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• import in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• import in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• import in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Etymology

Back-formed from importeren or borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: im‧port

Noun

import m (plural importen, diminutive importje n)

1. Geographical import.
2. (Netherlands, collective) A person or people who is/are not native to a city, village or region, but moved there from outside.

Synonyms

• (import): invoer

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "import"): export, uitvoer

Derived terms

• importbruid
• importgoederen
• importhandel

Related terms

• importeur

Descendants

• → Indonesian: impor
• → West Frisian: ymport

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

import

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Deverbal from importer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɔʁ/

Noun

import m (plural imports)

1. import

   Coordinate term: export

Derived terms

• import-export

Related terms

• importation

Further reading

• “import”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• promit, promît, rompit, rompît

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: im‧port
• Rhymes: -ort

Noun

import (plural importok)

1. import

Declension

Related terms

References

Further reading

• import in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English or German.

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importer, definite plural importene)

1. import

Related terms

• importere

References

• “import” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English or German.

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importar, definite plural importane)

1. import

References

• “import” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

import

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English import, from Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈim.pɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -impɔrt
• Syllabification: im‧port

Noun

import m inan

1. (economics) import (act of importing)

   Antonym: eksport

2. (economics) import (something brought in from a foreign country)

   Antonym: eksport

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• import in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• import in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from importa

Noun

import n (plural importuri)

1. import

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English import, from Latin importare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐmport/
• Hyphenation: i‧mport

Noun

ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ѝмпорт)

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

Declension

References

• “import” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Noun

import c

1. import

Declension

Synonyms

• införsel

Antonyms

• export

Derived terms

• importförbud
• importtillstånd
• importtull

Related terms

• importera

References

• import in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• import in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• import in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)