import

Noun

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (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 (UK)

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• (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)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

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”).

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.

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

• (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

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

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

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?

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

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

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

     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 6484883, (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, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):

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

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

• “import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmport]

import m inan

1. import

   Synonym: dovoz

   Antonyms: export, vývoz

• importér
• importní
• importovat

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

Back-formed from importeren or borrowed from English import.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: im‧port

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.

• (import): invoer

• (import): export, uitvoer

• importbruid
• importgoederen
• importhandel

• importeur

• → Indonesian: impor
• → West Frisian: ymport

import m (plural imports)

1. Geographical import

• importeur m

• “import”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• promit, promît, rompit, rompît

Borrowed from English import.[1]

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

import (plural importok)

1. import

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

From English or German.

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

1. import

• importere

• “import” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English or German.

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

1. import

• “import” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈim.pɔrt/

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• Rhymes: -impɔrt
• Syllabification: im‧port

import m inan

1. (economics) import (act of importing)

   Antonym: eksport

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

   Antonym: eksport

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

Back-formation from importa

import n (plural importuri)

1. import

From English import, from Latin importare.

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

ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ѝмпорт)

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

• “import” in Hrvatski jezični portal

import c

1. import

• införsel

• export

• importera
• importförbud
• importtillstånd
• importtull