different between meaning vs objective
meaning
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi?n??/
- Rhymes: -i?n??
Etymology 1
From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +? -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).
Noun
meaning (countable and uncountable, plural meanings)
- (of words, expressions or symbols)
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
- The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.
- The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.
- (of a person's actions) Intention.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
Synonyms
- (denotation of words etc.): definition
- (connotation of words etc.):
- (purpose, significance):
- (of a person's actions): goal, aim, plan, intent
Hyponyms
- proposition
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From mean +? -ing.
Verb
meaning
- present participle of mean
Adjective
meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)
- Having a (specified) intention.
- Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
- I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:
- [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
References
- meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- amening
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objective
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French objectif, from Latin obiect?vus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/, /?b?d???k.t?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
objective (comparative more objective, superlative most objective)
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
- (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
- (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
- The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
Usage notes
- Said of account, judgment, criteria, person, existence, or observation.
Antonyms
- subjective
Derived terms
- nonobjective
- objective correlative
- objectivity
Translations
Noun
objective (plural objectives)
- A material object that physically exists.
- A goal that is striven for.
- Objectives are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether that?s statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at it? – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. It?s crucial that your objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.
- (grammar) The objective case.
- Synonyms: object case, objective case
- (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:goal
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b.??k.tiv/
- Homophone: objectives
Adjective
objective
- feminine singular of objectif
Latin
Adjective
object?ve
- vocative masculine singular of object?vus
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