adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a meaningful glance (= clearly showing what you think )
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They exchanged meaningful glances.
a valid/useful/meaningful comparison (= a reasonable one, based on sensible information )
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There is not enough data for a valid comparison to be made.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Nevertheless there are certain minimal logical conditions that must be satisfied before any references to ontological existents can be accepted as meaningful .
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This freedom enables Eliot to find the proper niche for art, science, poetry and metaphysics as meaningful , liberating endeavors.
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It is the belief in the need for museums to make their collections as meaningful as possible to their audiences.
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No pep talk is going to be as meaningful as sinking a basket or two.
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The context of the discourse of anthropology provides constraints on the form of a statement that will be recognized as meaningful .
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Carrie wished it might have been as meaningful to Seb.
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Also about as close and as meaningful a human contact as one could dream of.
more
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But some choices are more meaningful than others, because they are more marked than others.
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What would you like changed to make your work more meaningful ?
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Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal.
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One response to these problems has been new efforts to link work and school in a more meaningful way.
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At the time Pete was fifty, making the challenge of his biking this wilderness more meaningful than my personal quest.
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What kind of work would be more meaningful for you?
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A career in congress had now become more meaningful with openings for committee or sub-committee chairmanships widespread.
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But more meaningful research has come along since then, with far less fanfare.
most
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His views and mine are exactly similar in most meaningful respects.
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The ceremony was perhaps most meaningful for Hazzard, who was fired as coach in 1988.
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Those Volunteers for whom the experience was most meaningful were those who acquired clear insights into the problems confronting a developing society.
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In order to visualize the patterns of waste flow, it is most meaningful to aggregate these wastes by county.
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Here's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life.
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But when leaders shape visions that are too wordy, peo-ple edit out all but the most meaningful aspirations.
very
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I shall be perfectly happy at home this summer, having a very meaningful relationship with Signorina Berlitz.
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The ability of UDAGs to leverage private dollars is not very meaningful if those dollars would have been invested anyway.
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Overall, research shows that the commercials are very meaningful to Guinness drinkers and reinforce its reputations as a tonic.
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This is a very meaningful step.
■ NOUN
comparison
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I see no basis for meaningful comparison between solicitors and mediators.
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Too few characters for meaningful comparison .
glance
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But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance .
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They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time - and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events.
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Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.
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Lots of meaningful glances and repressed passion as only the Victorians knew how.
look
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All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
relationship
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I shall be perfectly happy at home this summer, having a very meaningful relationship with Signorina Berlitz.
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Thus, one may develop various analytical measures to portray meaningful relationships and extract information from raw financial data.
sense
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Yet he won't, in any meaningful sense , sign.
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They were not friends in any meaningful sense .
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In the extreme cases, this type of foreign investment will not upgrade the host economy in any meaningful sense .
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In Sierra Leone, cultural participation in a meaningful sense often comes slowly and always by invitation.
way
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Reporting on the progress of five-year-olds in foundation subjects such as history and geography in a meaningful way taxes most teachers.
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Yet we systematically deny these individuals the opportunity to engage in meaningful ways with the adult world.
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Calculate the weekly time spent on this and resolve to use it in a meaningful way .
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One response to these problems has been new efforts to link work and school in a more meaningful way .
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But it is debatable whether this could be explicated in any meaningful way .
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I know of no way in which a drug can modify the stored information in any meaningful way.
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The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way .
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However, employees could not participate in a meaningful way in problem-solving efforts without access to information about company performance.
work
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I agree, but it must be meaningful work .
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He thought that we get in touch with the world and others through meaningful work .
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This can be achieved by good links with industry and allowing them access to meaningful work experience.
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But they also point to the benefits of meaningful work in building self-esteem.
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What is it about meaningful work that is so satisfying, that inspires people to take great risks?
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Social scientists have said that meaningful work is a response to the needs of society.
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Entrepreneurs say that their enjoyment of meaningful work often springs from a deep interest in some hobby or other pursuit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My father showed us that life is not meaningful without work.
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The data isn't very meaningful to anyone but a scientist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Diplomats say that immunity should not be used to avoid culpability, but it has had a meaningful place in international law.
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Figures such as these are not particularly meaningful because the information is highly aggregated.
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Furthermore, it is not clear what concept would be assigned to a sentence, though sentences are clearly meaningful .
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If this power has been transferred elsewhere, meaningful accountability has ceased to exist.
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Is such a proposition indeed meaningful ?
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Ralph Berger assessed the effects of meaningful verbal stimuli on dreaming.
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Useful semantic information therefore facilitates the incidence of meaningful strong overlaps in normal text.