Nouns
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meaning
noun
us/ˈmi·nɪŋ/

meaningnoun (IMPORTANCE)

[ U ]
importance or value:
Life had lost its meaning for her.

meaningnoun (EXPRESSION)

[ C/U ]
what something represents or expresses:
[ C ]Do you know the meaning of this word?
[ C ]The word has several meanings.

Examples of meaning

meaning
Subjecting "force" and "attraction" to rigorous mathematical treatment does not entail that "force" and "attraction" are transformed into pure mathematical concepts without any physical meaning.
In such a framework, there would seem to be no reason not to include social meaning along with 'ordinary' semantics and pragmatics.
We do not simply, through being rational and knowing ordinary language, 'know' the meaning of all necessary moral words.
These birds do not fly away when free; they (choose to) inhabit the human world, which protects them and gives them human meanings.
That is, there is a commonality of effect consistent with this region's role in the integration of sound and meaning.
However, the activation of semantic representations necessary for the retention of meaning will continue to be sustained in the postsentence retention interval.
Or, adopting a distributed point of view, conceptual representations of verbs may share fewer meaning elements in a bilingual's memory than those of nouns.
However, the circumstances and psychological meaning surrounding separation from a parent may play as important a role as the fact of the separation itself.
If they thought both meanings were synonymous, then they were told to choose the meaning that would be the most likely used for the sentence.
The third group was taught both pronunciation and meaning, providing the full set of lexical constituents.
Symbolic meanings are constructed through historical traditions, articulated contextually and reproduced only in practice.
The material world, present or past, is imbued with social structures that people invest with social and symbolic meanings.
As these groups identified themselves with specific parts of the landscape, particular parts of it took on ritual and symbolic meanings.
However, the transformation tools support symbolic reasoning, which may be used to explore the meaning of a specification at a much higher level of abstraction.
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Collocations withmeaning

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accepted meaning
Nicholson's starting point is the commonly accepted meaning of the word 'fusion' - the commercial imperative that led jazz to get into bed with rock at the end of the 1960s.
allegorical meaning
In principle, we may suppose that at one extreme the allegorical meaning is merely top-dressing, an occasional implication sparked by a detail.
connotative meaning
The results yielded three underlying dimensions of affective/connotative meaning (evaluation, potency, and activity) that accounted for much of the variance in ratings.
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