meaning

«meaning» in Mova's judaism dictionary: what it stands for or expresses — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a meaning, meanings); adjective in «well-meaning»; verb form (mean, means, meant, meaning)

meaning for a pupil

1) The meaning of a word or sign is what it stands for or expresses. tree →

2) The meaning of something is its purpose or importance: the meaning of life, a life full of meaning. tree →

3) The hidden message or idea behind something: the meaning of a poem or a dream. tree →

4) «Meaning» is also the -ing form of «mean»: I've been meaning to call you (planning to). tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons: look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary; words with more than one meaning. In maths: the meaning of a symbol (+ means add). In religion and ethics: the meaning of life, the meaning of a parable. Phrase: «I've been meaning to…» = I've wanted and planned to.

examples

• The meaning of Belimah is more doubtful. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• 18) Meaning outlets, outgates of the creative power, formations. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
• What is the meaning of «enormous»? tree →
• Some words have more than one meaning. tree →
• The red light has a clear meaning: stop! tree →
• We discussed the meaning of the poem. tree →
• Helping others gives her life meaning. tree →
• Jesus told parables with a deeper meaning. tree →
• I've been meaning to tidy my room all week. tree →
• A shrug can have many meanings. tree →
• He understood the gypsy woman's meaning now. tree →

note

Countable (meanings). Related: meaningful (important), meaningless (with no meaning or point), well-meaning (with good intentions). Maths: knowing the meaning of each symbol (=, <, >, ÷) is key to reading problems.

In the corpora

• "Your room looks like a bomb's hit it" is an exaggeration meaning the room is very messy.
• Sometimes a child sees a few seconds or minutes of a film made for adults without meaning to.
• Scientists still study why we dream; there is no evidence that dream pictures have fixed hidden meanings.
• In tests in Hawaii, dolphins understood that word order in hand-signal sentences changes the meaning.
• Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «meaning» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.