Signifies

Examples

• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I don't think it signifies two straws about the 'Pioneer,' or Ladislaw, or Brooke's speechifying to the Middlemarchers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It signifies, he intimated, bloodshed and civil conflict. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It signifies that an activity has become intelligent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But what signifies our wishing? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The others said, Let us row, what signifies it? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Science, in short, signifies a realization of the logical implications of any knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Even now I see what you have done, but I don't know how you did it or what it signifies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• My Lady signifies, without profuse expenditure of words, that she is as wearily well as she can hope to be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That signifies nothing--what other men would think. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What signifies philosophy that does not apply to some use? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The word is strongly expressive in their language, but not easily rendered into English; it signifies, to retire to his first mother. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Not that it signifies. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What signifies having credit, in such a vulgar place as that? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The word sestertius signifies two asses and a half. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Greek word (apoixia), on the contrary, signifies a separation of dwelling, a departure from home, a going out of the house. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Not these countenances, I am sure, looking towards the Miss Bertrams; and for a theatre, what signifies a theatre? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The word _Houyhnhnm_, in their tongue, signifies a _horse_, and, in its etymology, the _perfection of nature_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The Latin word (colonia) signifies simply a plantation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To be conscious is to be aware of what we are about; conscious signifies the deliberate, observant, planning traits of activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It signifies rising to the needs of the situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It signifies conscious transfer of a meaning embedded in past experience for use in a new one. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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