noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
convey meaning
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Children sometimes find it easier to use pictures to convey meaning, rather than words.
double meaning
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A lot of the jokes were based on double meaning .
literal meaning/sense/interpretation etc
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A trade war is not a war in the literal sense.
the true meaning of sth
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The story teaches a lesson about the true meaning of friendship.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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A day by the seaside has a different meaning on the breezy east coast.
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For example, the word infer seems to have different meanings for different speakers.
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In a neutral context like It's -, heavy has a different meaning .
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Second, the imagery suggests different meanings .
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Words can also have different meaning according to the context in which they are used.
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Then there is the fact that two phrases that sound exactly alike can have different meanings depending on their context.
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The two pictures are not, however, incompatible, they merely highlight different aspects of meaning .
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As symbols, they may have different meanings for different people in different situations.
double
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This gives a double meaning to Blanche's hatred of naked light.
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Old rivalries are barely submerged and every quip has a deadly double meaning .
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No, there was no double meaning in what he'd said.
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Sniggers and the double meanings surrounded the subject which was one of the biggest taboos in our society.
literal
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As Leon Brittan has pointed out, the phrase doesn't even carry the same literal meaning in every language.
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As I read, it seems to me that this is not his literal meaning .
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A text would entail its interpretation only if meaning was exhausted by sense, the coded or literal meanings studied by semantics.
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Therefore, on the literal meaning of the words used, the applicants must fail.
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Within the family it is usually the words and their literal meaning which take primary importance.
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The literal meaning is not conclusive: the ordinary reader knows all about irony.
new
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For Francisco Franco, the war now had a new meaning .
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More new meanings find expression this way than by almost any other process.
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A new meaning for vertical integration.
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Whether or not we will shortly have a passive computer lobby, it certainly gives a new meaning to the hacking cough.
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There seems to be no place in successful socialization for creative interaction that produces new meanings .
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Safety at sea takes on a new meaning when you sail with Navico.
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Whether new words and new meanings are accepted can depend to some extent on what means exist to disseminate them.
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So buy a daffodil ... and give a new meaning to flower power.
precise
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Use complex words only when you need a precise meaning and a simple word will not serve the purpose.
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Most of us maintain vague notions of justice, but its precise meaning escapes us until we are deprived of it.
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Words have areas of meaning rather than precise points of meaning. 6.
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That is, they have a fairly definite, precise meaning .
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The precise meaning attached to these terms has varied depending upon the setting in which they were used.
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T R S Allan suggests that political concepts should inform judicial decisions about the precise meaning of supremacy.
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Probability has a precise meaning here.
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It is a concept, an abstraction, a term with no single precise and agreed meaning .
real
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This is a generation for whom the war years remain vivid and the Empire had real meaning .
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Most job descriptions are bland, boring, totally devoid of colour and - worse still - frequently devoid of real meaning .
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I love you utterly and completely, and you give real meaning to life.
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They would know the real meaning of religious freedom, something which has never really existed throughout religious history.
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Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees.
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Until a child has achieved that understanding, a numeral is just a shape with no real meaning .
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Not only do both represent a constant danger to the community, but their lives have ceased to have any real meaning .
social
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As yet there has been little research considering early retirement among women and its social meaning and impact.
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I made some modest remarks about the social and political meanings encoded in works of art.
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Finally, one must be aware of yet another way in which social actions have meaning .
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The contact becomes an act only if in some way or another it can be provided with a social meaning .
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Initially, this may simply involve the elicitation of a sequence of sounds or actions which can be endowed with social meaning .
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We will be working with a simplified form of a total theory of social meaning .
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What social meanings , if any, can be detected in the synchronized clapping and threats aggression?
specific
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Contrast also grants priority to lexical expressions that conventionally convey a specific meaning .
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If it has a specific set of meanings , the semantic theory should specify them.
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Liberty for Hayek has a specific meaning .
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Furthermore, Ishmael is alive because he alone did not assign specific meanings to events.
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The name can convey a highly specific meaning or less than nothing, depending on your audience.
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All the descriptions used on Sainsbury's packs have specific meanings .
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Certainly not a routine interpretation of certain symbols attached to specific meanings .
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What specific meanings Dicey himself intended when writing the Law of the Constitution matters little.
symbolic
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The fact is simply that the two colours do not possess universal symbolic meanings shared by all the peoples of the globe.
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And yet, symbolic meanings do not derive only from cultures.
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All illnesses carry symbolic meanings as well as the purely physiological.
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In other words, a technological breakthrough supposedly ushered in new symbolic meanings .
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Comprehension in the sense of understanding sentences is then a semantic matter of deciphering symbolic meanings .
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A harmless pleasure can become the gateway to nameless hells when for whatever reasons it begins to carry a significant symbolic meaning .
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The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances.
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The symbolic meaning of the clothes is the same for all Punjabis.
true
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The right legal answer, based on the true meaning of the Act, must be found and applied.
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A man needed special experience and insight to work true meanings out of certain murky remarks.
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Even so, those with grace always know how to be graceful and she would probably understand the true meaning of the gesture.
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It was too soon for anyone to understand the true meaning of what had happened.
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I still can't get a clear definition on the true meaning of it all.
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Given the dichotomous speech model that Richard uses, one need only invert the sense to discover the true meaning .
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She understood the true meaning of a phrase she had often heard but never defined: in her element.
■ NOUN
word
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A pronunciation is addressed either with or without the mediation of the semantic system - our store of word meanings .
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Vumba is a Shona word meaning mist.
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The automatic recognition of word meanings has been demonstrated in a number of experimental investigations.
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Knowledge of how word meanings combine at the sentence level can rule out grammatically correct, but semantically implausible sentences.
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The word meaning is to be taken seriously here.
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The chapter by Eve Clark focuses on young children's acquisition of word meanings .
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Masala is a generic word meaning mixed spices, and thus the most basic curry powder is a masala of a sort.
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In a semantic network, concepts, which refer to word meanings , are represented by nodes.
■ VERB
carry
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A difference in word form signals a difference in meaning , so two different forms can not carry the selfsame meaning.
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Many phrases that we feel could logically be broken up still carry hidden meanings that pass unnoticed until some one misuses them.
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Terms may overlap in meaning , but they may not carry identical meanings.
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Sometimes they carry unexpected meanings and then are called idioms.
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Words carry meanings , and so do combinations of words.
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Even the most unselfish people carry certain meanings in their eyes.
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As Leon Brittan has pointed out, the phrase doesn't even carry the same literal meaning in every language.
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A linguistic element carries meaning to the extent that it is selected.
change
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The alteration of stress on certain words can completely change the meaning of a phrase or sentence.
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That was their new job and the word changed its meaning to reflect that new reality.
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The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept.
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It changes their meaning , though - and very quickly.
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Though their scruples were overcome, their objection pointed to their awareness that the ceremony was changing its meaning .
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When we change the order in which things happen, it changes the meaning of the story.
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You can not interfere with a single word in Shakespeare or Milton without changing the meaning .
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Occasionally incorrect spelling can change the meaning of a sentence.
convey
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Nurses frequently have difficulty in conveying the exact meaning of messages to patients and relatives.
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The rest often consists of sentences to help convey the meaning of those key points and to make the language flow.
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Attainment target 3: A growing ability to construct and convey meaning in written language matching style to audience and purpose.
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Contrast also grants priority to lexical expressions that conventionally convey a specific meaning .
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Choice of words and their arrangement in sentences to convey exact meaning are therefore vital in the activity of communicating.
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They must faithfully convey the historian's meaning and still be memorable for you. 3.
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Even without verbal language, we can convey meaning .
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But it isin Between that the function of language to convey meaning is most actively questioned.
express
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Meaning lies in the mind, beyond words - just as one may search for a word to express one's meaning .
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The morpheme is the smallest unit of language that expresses meaning and is governed by the grammatical rules of the language.
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Rather, each conventional expression expresses a different meaning .
give
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These will be given the meaning they bear among lawyers.
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This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.
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Because of this, humans' actions are meaningful: they define situations and give meaning to their actions and those of others.
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Such elders may have given positive meaning to experiences of anxiety, poverty, chronic illness, multiple losses and death.
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They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning .
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We cling to the symbols which give our life meaning and help us in answering this question.
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But without another job, a hobby or some activity that gives meaning to their lives there is danger.
interpret
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A good counsellor helps them to interpret the meaning behind the words each speaks.
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And they interpret that as meaning that whatever happens in the money market exporters should still retain some of their current advantage.
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Confusion between the sources of faunal diversity could easily lead to mistakes in interpreting its meaning .
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This could be interpreted as meaning that the Act applies to the activity duty.
lose
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The name was often given to women by eighteenth century writers, and may have lost its meaning .
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To lose these meanings would be death, to unleash them would overwhelm.
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But in that case his words lose their meaning and become empty.
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They become more and more frequent until they lose all meaning as acts of atonement and become simply acts of smoking.
understand
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The story has to be decoded in order to understand its meaning .
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Children understand your meaning by perceiving the tone of your voice.
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This tension between change and continuity is the key to understanding the inner meaning as opposed to the outward form of working-class sport.
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You will use your powers of anticipation and imagination to read between the lines, to understand message and meaning .
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You may still be a child but you are the only person in this dreadful place who understands the meaning of care.
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Even so, those with grace always know how to be graceful and she would probably understand the true meaning of the gesture.
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In short, although a wink is a movement of the eyelids, the movement is no help in understanding its meaning .
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The need to understand the meaning of behaviour also makes it difficult to predict how individuals will behave.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bereft of hope/meaning/life etc
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How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
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These women were old and toothless at a young age, their eyes bereft of hope.
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
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As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
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From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
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In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
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It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
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There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
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These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
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To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The same symbol can have more than one meaning , depending on the context in which it is used.
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There is a chart that explains the meaning of all the symbols on the map.
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This word 'spring' has several different meanings.
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Was there a hidden meaning behind his words?
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We convey meaning not only by our words but also by our actions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Children just beginning on their first language have to solve the problem of how forms map on to meanings.
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If action stems from subjective meanings, it follows that the sociologist must discover those meanings in order to understand action.
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Peter read the letter twice before its meaning sank in.
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So the notion that pragmatics might be the study of aspects of meaning not covered in semantics certainly has some cogency.
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The meaning of words changes every fifty years.
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There is a further meaning to be discovered in the shepherds.
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Words associated with women are sexualized so that apparently equivalent terms acquire very different meanings.