Meanings

Examples

• 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.
• The subject matter of education consists primarily of the meanings which supply content to existing social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The continuity of social life means that many of these meanings are contributed to present activity by past collective experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The meanings of words! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His responses grow intelligent, or gain meaning, simply because he lives and acts in a medium of accepted meanings and values. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For example, the sound fang meant not only boat, but a place, spinning, fragrant, inquire, and several other meanings according to the context. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mind, understanding, denotes responsiveness to meanings (ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The words, accordingly, which in the original languages denote those different establishments, have very different meanings. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But while a boat is easy to draw most of the other meanings are undrawable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Probably the nouns were said in different intonations to convey different meanings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were thinking about the gods they served and thinking new meanings into them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their glances met for a second, and perhaps let them into each other's meanings more deeply than either cared to go. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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