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# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become [[involved]] in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. |
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#*: self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., '''intervening''' the different estates |
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#: {{usex|en|The police had to be called to '''intervene''' in the fight.}} |
#: {{usex|en|The police had to be called to '''intervene''' in the fight.}} |
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#* '''2018''', Aamna Mohdin, “Top film-makers back penguin intervention on Attenborough show,” ''{{w|The Guardian}},'' 19{{nbsp}}November, 2018,<sup>[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/19/top-filmmakers-back-penguin-intervention-on-attenborough-show]</sup> |
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#*: Nature film-makers are discouraged from '''intervening''' in the events they are attempting to capture on film. |
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#: {{usex|en|I hadn't seen him since we were in school, and the '''intervening''' years had not been kind to him.}} |
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#* '''1813''', {{w|Jane Austen}}, ''{{w|Pride and Prejudice}},'' Chapter{{nbsp}}11,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42671/42671-h/42671-h.htm]</sup> |
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#*: She counted the days that must '''intervene''' before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before. |
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#* '''1963''', {{w|John le Carré}}, ''{{w|The Spy Who Came In From the Cold}},'' New York: Coward-McCann, 1964, Chapter{{nbsp}}17, p.{{nbsp}}176,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/1963spywhocameinfrom00leca]</sup> |
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#*: {{...}} he was prepared to allow long silences to '''intervene''' rather than exchange pointless words. |
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# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[occur]] or [[act]] as an [[obstacle]] or [[delay]]. |
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#* '''1883''', {{w|Robert Louis Stevenson}}, ''{{w|Treasure Island}},'' Chapter{{nbsp}}23,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27780/27780-h/27780-h.htm]</sup> |
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#*: {{...}} a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last '''intervened''', and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home {{...}} |
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#* '''1906''', {{w|Jack London}}, ''{{w|White Fang}},'' Part{{nbsp}}1, Chapter{{nbsp}}3,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/910/910-h/910-h.htm]</sup> |
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#*: He kept the fire brightly blazing, for he knew that it alone '''intervened''' between the flesh of his body and their hungry fangs. |
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#* '''1918''', {{w|Willa Cather}}, ''{{w|My Ántonia}},'' Book{{nbsp}}5, Chapter{{nbsp}}1,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19810/19810-h/19810-h.html]</sup> |
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#*: I told Ántonia I would come back, but life '''intervened''', and it was twenty years before I kept my promise. |
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# {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To [[say]] (something) in the middle of a [[conversation]] or [[discussion]] between other people, or to [[respond]] to a situation involving other people. |
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#* '''1904''', {{w|Joseph Conrad}}, ''{{w|Nostromo}},'' Part{{nbsp}}2, Chapter{{nbsp}}4,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2021/2021-h/2021-h.htm]</sup> |
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#*: Young Scarfe stared, astounded. “You haven’t met before,” Mrs. Gould '''intervened'''. “Mr. Decoud—Mr. Scarfe.” |
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#* '''1970''', {{w|J. G. Farrell}}, ''{{w|Troubles (novel)|Troubles}},'' New York: Knopf, 1971, Part{{nbsp}}2,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/troubles00jgfa]</sup> |
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#*: “That sounds suspiciously like bigotry to me,” '''intervened''' Maitland, sweetening his impertinence with a dimpled smile. |
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#* '''2014''', {{w|Rachel Kushner}}, ''{{w|The Flamethrowers}},'' New York: Scribner, Chapter{{nbsp}}10, p.{{nbsp}}154,<sup>[https://books.google.ca/books?id=SheFAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false]</sup> |
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#*: They all talked nonstop. That is, if you didn’t '''intervene'''. They were accustomed to being interrupted. |
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# {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To come between, or to be between, persons or things (spatially). |
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#* '''1839''', {{w|Thomas De Quincey}}, “Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Recollections of {{w|Grasmere (village)|Grasmere}},” ''{{w|Tait's Edinburgh Magazine|Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine}},'' Volume{{nbsp}}6, September, 1839, p.{{nbsp}}569, |
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#*: {{...}} small fields and miniature meadows, separated {{...}} by wild self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, holly, mountain ash, and hazel, that meander through the valley, '''intervening''' the different estates with natural sylvan marches {{...}} |
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#* '''1912''', {{w|Zane Grey}}, ''{{w|Riders of the Purple Sage}},'' Chapter{{nbsp}}22,<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1300/1300-h/1300-h.htm]</sup> |
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#*: Venters calculated that a mile or more still '''intervened''' between them and the riders. |
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#* '''1979''', {{w|William Styron}}, ''{{w|Sophie's Choice|Sophie’s Choice}},'' New York: Bantam, 1980, Chapter{{nbsp}}3,<sup>[https://archive.org/details/sophieschoice00styr]</sup> |
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#*: I had begun to eye the door and the '''intervening''' furniture, and quickly schemed out the best way of immediate exit. |
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# {{lb|en|legal}} In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. |
# {{lb|en|legal}} In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. |
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#: {{usex|en|an application for leave (i.e. permission) to '''intervene'''}} |
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====Related terms==== |
====Related terms==== |
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* {{l|en|intervener}} |
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* {{l|en|intervention}} |
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====Translations==== |
====Translations==== |
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{{trans-top|to come between, or to be between, persons or things}} |
{{trans-top|to come between, or to be between, persons or things}} |
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* Catalan: {{t+|ca|intervenir}} |
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|intervenir}} |
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|intervenir}} |
* Spanish: {{t+|es|intervenir}} |
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* Swedish: {{t+|sv|ingripa}}, {{t+|sv|intervenera}} |
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|ingripa}}, {{t+|sv|intervenera}} |
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{{trans-top|to become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action}} |
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* Norwegian: {{t-check|no|gripe inn}} |
* Norwegian: {{t-check|no|gripe inn}} |
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Revision as of 16:33, 21 April 2019
English
Etymology
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Back-formation from intervention, and/or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin interveniō (“come between”, verb).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Rhymes: -iːn
Verb
intervene (third-person singular simple present intervenes, present participle intervening, simple past and past participle intervened)
- (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- 2018, Aamna Mohdin, “Top film-makers back penguin intervention on Attenborough show,” The Guardian, 19 November, 2018,[1]
- Nature film-makers are discouraged from intervening in the events they are attempting to capture on film.
- 2018, Aamna Mohdin, “Top film-makers back penguin intervention on Attenborough show,” The Guardian, 19 November, 2018,[1]
- (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- An instant intervened between the flash and the report.
- I hadn't seen him since we were in school, and the intervening years had not been kind to him.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 11,[2]
- She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.
- 1963, John le Carré, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, New York: Coward-McCann, 1964, Chapter 17, p. 176,[3]
- […] he was prepared to allow long silences to intervene rather than exchange pointless words.
- (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
- Nothing intervened to prevent the undertaking.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Chapter 23,[4]
- […] a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last intervened, and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home […]
- 1906, Jack London, White Fang, Part 1, Chapter 3,[5]
- He kept the fire brightly blazing, for he knew that it alone intervened between the flesh of his body and their hungry fangs.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book 5, Chapter 1,[6]
- I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise.
- (transitive, intransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- Synonym: interrupt
- 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter 4,[7]
- Young Scarfe stared, astounded. “You haven’t met before,” Mrs. Gould intervened. “Mr. Decoud—Mr. Scarfe.”
- 1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, 1971, Part 2,[8]
- “That sounds suspiciously like bigotry to me,” intervened Maitland, sweetening his impertinence with a dimpled smile.
- 2014, Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, Chapter 10, p. 154,[9]
- They all talked nonstop. That is, if you didn’t intervene. They were accustomed to being interrupted.
- (transitive, intransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things (spatially).
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Recollections of Grasmere,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 6, September, 1839, p. 569,
- […] small fields and miniature meadows, separated […] by wild self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, holly, mountain ash, and hazel, that meander through the valley, intervening the different estates with natural sylvan marches […]
- 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 22,[10]
- Venters calculated that a mile or more still intervened between them and the riders.
- 1979, William Styron, Sophie’s Choice, New York: Bantam, 1980, Chapter 3,[11]
- I had begun to eye the door and the intervening furniture, and quickly schemed out the best way of immediate exit.
- (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- an application for leave (i.e. permission) to intervene
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Related terms
Translations
to become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action
to occur, to come between, points of time, or events
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to come between, or to be between, persons or things
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