interests meaning

EN[ˈɪnt(ə)ɹɪsts] [ˈɪntɹɛsts]
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Definition of interests in English Dictionary

• NounBFinterestPREinter-+-
  1. plural of interest.
  2. The persons interested in any particular business or cause, taken collectively.
     1. the coal-mining interests
     2. the separatist interests
• VerbBFinterestPRinterestingPT, PPinterested
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of interest.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • Most who have argued for evaluativism have been interested in establishing skepticism, and have assumed that evaluativism implied skepticism.
     • I have too many friends in Philedom. It's going to be very interesting to see how we survive the 8th season and still keep our Internet communities in tact.[sic]
     • Another interesting technique to use is angle shooting. Action shot obliquely appears slower than the same action viewed at right angles
  2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
     • All frames were extracted by an individual naïve to the experimental protocol and afterwards an experienced thermographer examined all the frames regarding the positioning of the regions of interest.
     • If you can plow through the first three chapters, then the plot starts to get interesting.
     • The judge recused herself from that case, citing a possible conflict of interest.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Nouns
     • Noun forms
       • Noun plural forms
  2. Verbs
     • Verb forms
       • Verb singular forms
         • Third-person singular forms

Other Vocabulary

1. en interest
2. en interess
3. fr intérêts
4. en interested
5. en intrusts