Intern

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intern \In*tern"\, a. [L. internus: cf. F. interne. See
     {Internal}.]
     Internal. [Obs.] --Howell.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Intern \In*tern"\, v. t. [F. interne. See {Intern}, a.]
     1. To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or
        country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops
        which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To hold until the end of a war, as enemy citizens in a
        country at the time of outbreak of hostilities; -- an
        action performed by countries.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  intern \in*tern"\, n. [F.] (F. pron. [a^]N`t[^a]rn")
     1. (Med.) A resident physician in a hospital, especially one
        who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising
        under supervision of experienced physicians, as a
        continuation of the training process; a house physician;
        also called {houseman} in Britain. [Also spelled
        {interne}.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
     2. A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an
        occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and
        other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern
        in a law firm.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intern
       n : an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining
           supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British
           term) [syn: {interne}, {houseman}, {medical intern}]
       v 1: deprive of freedom; "During WWII, Japanese were interned in
            camps in the West"
       2: work as an intern; "The toung doctor is interning at the
          Medical Center this year"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "intern":
     Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, addressee, allopath, allopathist,
     apprentice teacher, artist-in-residence, attending physician,
     bastille, bolt in, bosom, cast in prison, center, clap in jail,
     clap up, confine, constrain, core, coroner, country doctor,
     croaker, deepest recesses, denizen, doc, doctor, dweller,
     family doctor, gaol, general practitioner, graduate assistant,
     habitant, heart, heart of hearts, hold captive, hold in captivity,
     hold prisoner, house detective, house physician, immure, imprison,
     incarcerate, incumbent, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inner,
     inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess,
     inner self, inpatient, inside, interior, interior man, internal,
     intrados, inward, jail, jug, leech, live-in maid, lock in, lock up,
     locum tenens, medical attendant, medical examiner, medical man,
     medical practitioner, medico, monitor, occupant, occupier,
     paraprofessional, penetralia, physician, physician in ordinary,
     practice teacher, praepostor, prefect, prison, proctor,
     pupil teacher, quod, recesses, residencer, resident,
     resident physician, residentiary, resider, sawbones, secret place,
     secret places, sojourner, soul, student assistant,
     teaching assistant, teaching fellow, teaching intern, tenant,
     throw into jail, treat, vital center, vitals