import

See also: Import

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK) enPR: ĭm'pôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔː(ɹ)t/
• (US) enPR: ĭm'pôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/

Verb

• (UK) enPR: ĭmpôt', IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/
• (US) enPR: ĭmpôrt', IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Translations

something brought in from a foreign country

• Arabic: استيراد m (istiraad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進口 (zh), 进口 (jìnkǒu), 輸入 (zh), 输入 (zh) (shūrù)

• Dutch: import (nl), invoer (nl)
• Finnish: tuontitavara, importti (slang)
• German: Importware f, Importgut n
• Greek: εισαγωγή (el) f (eisagogí)
• Hebrew: ייבוא m (y'ivu)

• Japanese: 輸入品 (ゆにゅうひん, yunyūhin)
• Portuguese: importados m pl
• Russian: импорт (ru) m (ímport)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: увоз m, импорт m

  Roman: uvoz m, import m

• Spanish: importación (es) f
• Swedish: import (sv) c, införsel (sv) c

practice of importing

• Arabic: استيراد m (istiraad)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進口 (zh), 进口 (jìnkǒu), 輸入 (zh), 输入 (zh) (shūrù)

• Czech: dovoz (cs) m, import (cs) m
• Dutch: import (nl), invoer (nl)
• Finnish: tuonti (fi), maahantuonti
• German: Import (de) m, Einfuhr (de) f
• Greek: εισαγωγή (el) f (eisagogí)

• Japanese: 輸入 (ja) (yunyū), 輸入 (ja) (ゆにゅう, yunyū)
• Portuguese: importação (pt) f
• Russian: импорт (ru) m (ímport), ввоз (ru) m (vvoz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: импорт m, увоз m

  Roman: import m, uvoz m

• Spanish: importación (es) f
• Swedish: import (sv) c, införsel (sv) c

licence for import

• Dutch: invoervergunning
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: увозница

  Roman: uvoznica

significance, importance

• Dutch: belang (nl) n, gewicht (nl) n
• Finnish: tärkeys, merkityksellisyys
• Portuguese: importância (pt) f, significância (pt) f

• Scottish Gaelic: susbaint f
• Spanish: importancia (es) f, significado (es) m

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

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

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• importable
• important
• importer
• importation

Antonyms

• (bring in from a foreign country): export

Translations

to bring in from a foreign country

• Arabic: استورد (istawrada)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進口 (zh), 进口 (jìnkǒu), 輸入 (zh), 输入 (zh) (shūrù)

• Czech: dovézt
• Dutch: invoeren (nl), importeren (nl)
• Esperanto: importi (eo)
• Estonian: importima, (sisse) tooma
• Finnish: tuoda (fi) (maahan)
• French: importer (fr)
• German: importieren (de), einführen (de)
• Greek: εισάγω (el) (eiságo)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: importál

• Italian: importare (it)
• Japanese: 輸入する (ゆにゅうする, yunyū-suru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: aféieren, importéieren
• Portuguese: importar (pt)
• Russian: импортировать (ru) (importírovat') impf. and pf., ввозить (ru) impf (vvozít'), ввезти (ru) pf (vveztí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: увести pf., увозити impf.

  Roman: ùvesti pf., uvòziti impf.

• Spanish: importar (es)
• Swedish: importera (sv), föra in (sv)
• Thai: นำเข้า
• Ukrainian: імпортувати (importuváty); увозити (uvózyty), ввозити (uk) (vvózyty) impf., увезти (uveztý), ввезти (vveztý) pf.

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:

     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.

   • Dryden

     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, Shelley, "The Cenci":

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

5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
   • Hooker

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

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

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989

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Czech

Noun

import m

1. import

Synonyms

• dovoz

Antonyms

• export, vývoz

Related terms

• importér
• importní
• importovat

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

import m (plural importen, diminutive importje n)

1. Geographical import

Synonyms

• invoer

Antonyms

• export, uitvoer

Related terms

• importeur m

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French

Noun

import m (plural imports)

1. Geographical import

Derived terms

• importeur m

Anagrams

• promit, promît, rompit, rompît

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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

    declension of import

	singular	plural
nominative	import	importi
genitive	importa	importa
dative	importu	importima
accusative	import	importe
vocative	importe	importi
locative	importu	importima
instrumental	importom	importima

References

• “import” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Swedish

Noun

import c

1. import

Declension

Declension of import

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	import || importen || ||
genitive	imports || importens || ||

Related terms

• importera
• importförbud
• importtillstånd
• importtull

Synonyms

• införsel

Antonyms

• export