intern

/in'tə:n/

Thân thiện

A young medical intern checks a patient's chart at the hospital.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A student or recent graduate, especially in medicine, gaining supervised practical experience: An "intern" is a person, often in a professional field like medicine, law, or business, who works for a limited time to gain entry-level experience under supervision.
   • A person confined or detained, especially during wartime: An "intern" can also refer to a person who is forced to live in a restricted area, such as an internment camp.

2. Verb (transitive):

   • To confine or detain, especially during a war: To "intern" someone means to restrict their freedom of movement, often by placing them in a camp.
3. Verb (intransitive):
   • To work as an intern: To "intern" means to serve as an intern, performing work to gain practical experience.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Trainee):
  • The hospital hired three new medical interns for the summer program.
  • She worked as a marketing intern before getting a full-time job.
• Noun (Detainee):
  • During the conflict, thousands of civilians were held as interns.
• Verb (To detain):
  • The government decided to intern individuals considered a security risk.
• Verb (To work as a trainee):
  • He will intern at a law firm this semester.
  • She is interning in the finance department to learn about accounting.

Advanced Usage

• "To be interned": This passive form is commonly used to describe the state of being confined.
  • Many families were interned for the duration of the war.

Variants and Related Words

• Internship (n): The position or period of work undertaken by an intern.
  • She completed a six-month internship at a tech startup.
• Internee (n): A person who is interned; a detainee. This word is specifically used for the confinement meaning.
  • The camp held political internees.

Synonyms

• Noun (Trainee): Trainee, apprentice, resident (medical), probationer.
• Noun (Detainee): Detainee, prisoner.
• Verb (To detain): Confine, detain, imprison, hold.
• Verb (To work): Train, apprentice, work as a trainee.

Phrasal Verbs

(The word "intern" does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

(There are no common idioms directly using the word "intern.")

Học thuật

Noun

1. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)

Verb

1. work as an intern
   • The young doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year
2. deprive of freedom
   • During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West

Từ đồng nghĩa

• interne
• houseman
• medical intern