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# intently

«intently» in Mova's school dictionary: **With close attention, with the mind fixed on one thing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (intently; from the adjective intent)

### meaning for a pupil

1) With close attention, with the mind fixed on one thing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/#m1)

2) Keeping the eyes or ears firmly turned to something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character looks or listens intently at a sound, a face or a sight, so that nothing else gets noticed

### examples

- She listened intently to the soft voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/#x1)
- The fox watched the hen intently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/#x2)
- He gazed intently at his friend's face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/#x3)
- Pay attention intently to the question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [From the place of His habitation He looketh intently upon all the inhabitants of the earth;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.497/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «intently» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intently/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.