different between meaning vs thesis

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)

1. (of words, expressions or symbols)
   1. 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."

   2. The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
2. 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.

3. (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.

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

1. present participle of mean

Adjective

meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)

1. Having a (specified) intention.
2. 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.

References

• meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• amening

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from ??????? (títh?mi, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -??? (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result) The English word is a doublet of deed.

Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thes?s, from Ancient Greek ?????? (théseis).

Pronunciation

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?s?s/, (archaic) /???s?s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??is?s/
  • Rhymes: -i?s?s
  • Hyphenation: the?sis
• Plural:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?si?z/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??isiz/
  • Rhymes: -i?si?z
  • Hyphenation: the?ses

Noun

thesis (plural theses)

1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
   1. (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
   2. (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted as a requirement for a university degree; a dissertation.
   3. (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
   4. (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
2. Senses relating to music and prosody.
   1. (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.

      Antonym: arsis

   2. (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• arsis and thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis, antithesis, synthesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• thesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Heists, Sethis, heists, shiest, shites, sithes, thises

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin thesis, from Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: the?sis

Noun

thesis f (plural theses or thesissen, diminutive thesisje n)

1. Dated form of these.

   Synonyms: dissertatie, proefschrift

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?e.sis/, [?t???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.sis/, [?t???s?is]

Noun

thesis f (genitive thesis); third declension

1. thesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• thesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette