Meaning

Examples

• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I do not apprehend your meaning. Plato. The Republic.
• If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Therefore I checked myself, and made my meaning plainer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Meaning of Vocation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Butthat he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! Jane Austen. Emma.
• In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The vote has become a convenient peg upon which to hang aspirations that are not at all sure of their own meaning. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She meant 'facinating', but as Grace didn't know the exact meaning of either word, fastidious sounded well and made a good impression. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I am afraid I should do it very awkwardly, was his reply, with a look of meaning. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She could only tell me that it was 'just the news,'--meaning, I suppose, that they all talked as usual about each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Names give abstract meanings a physical locus and body. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But those words are apt to cover different meanings to different minds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The term value has two quite different meanings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Compare what was said in an earlier chapter about the one-sided meanings which have come to attach to the ideas of efficiency and of culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And I considered whether, if it should signify any one of these meanings, which was so very likely, could I quite answer for myself? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In one of its meanings, appreciation is opposed to depreciation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Perception of meanings depends upon perception of connections, of context. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His countenance was overlaid with legible meanings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He must not simply learn the signs, but the established grouping of those signs to represent various meanings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nothing is more striking than the difference between an activity as merely physical and the wealth of meanings which the same activity may assume. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The meanings with which activities become charged, concern nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• AS matter of fact, any subject is cultural in the degree in which it is apprehended in its widest possible range of meanings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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