Definition of "import"

import¹

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

import²

verb
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.
  Quotations
  See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.
  1661, Thomas Salusbury, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
2. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
  Quotations
  This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
  1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
  If I endure it, what imports it you?
  1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], (please specify the page number)
3. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
  Quotations
  It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
  1762, David Hume, The History of England
4. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
  Quotations
  It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
  1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci
5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
  Quotations
  Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
6. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

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