meaning [thing signified.]
Roget-categorie 516
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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[Idea to be conveyed.]
Meaning
[Thing signified.]
zelfstandig naamwoord
meaning —
signification,
significance —
sense,
expression —
import,
purport —
force —
drift,
tenor,
spirit,
bearing,
coloring —
scope.
[important part of the meaning]
substance —
gist,
essence,
marrow,
spirit
etc.
5.
matter —
subject,
subject matter —
argument,
text,
sum and substance.
general meaning,
broad meaning,
substantial meaning,
colloquial meaning,
literal meaning,
plain meaning,
simple meaning,
natural meaning,
unstrained meaning,
true meaning,
etc.
(exact)
494
honest meaning,
etc.
543
prima facie meaning [Lat.] —
etc.
(manifest)
525.
letter of the law.
literally —
after acceptation.
synonym —
implication,
allusion
etc.
(latency)
526 —
suggestion
etc.
(information)
527 —
figure of speech
etc.
521 —
acceptation
etc.
(interpretation)
522.
werkwoord
mean,
signify,
express —
import,
purport —
convey,
imply,
breathe,
indicate,
bespeak,
bear a sense —
tell of,
speak of —
touch on —
point to,
allude to —
drive at —
involve
etc.
(latency)
526 —
declare
etc.
(affirm)
535.
understand by
etc.
(interpret)
522.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
meaning
etc.
v. —
expressive,
suggestive,
allusive —
significant,
significative†,
significatory† —
pithy —
full of meaning,
pregnant with meaning.
declaratory
etc.
535 —
intelligible
etc.
518 —
literal —
synonymous —
tantamount
etc.
(equivalent)
27 —
implied
etc.
(latent)
526 —
explicit
etc.
525.
bijwoord
to that effect —
that is to say
etc.
(being interpreted)
522.
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