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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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view
English
Etymology
From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vju?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
view (plural views)
- (physical) Visual perception.
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- , Book II, Chapter XXI
- Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
- , Book II, Chapter XXI
- The range of vision.
- Synonyms: sight, eyeshot
- The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
- Something to look at, such as scenery.
- Synonym: vista
- 1799, Thomas Campbell, s:The Pleasures of Hope
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
- (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user.
- Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play
- (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
- c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
- c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
- A mental image.
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
- A point of view.
- An intention or prospect.
- No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does
- A mental image.
- (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
- (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
- A wake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Antonyms
- (part of computer program): model, controller
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)
- (transitive) To look at.
- The video was viewed by millions of people.
- (transitive) To regard in a stated way.
- I view it as a serious breach of trust.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- see
- look
- voyeur
Anagrams
- wive
Middle English
Noun
view
- Alternative form of vewe
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English view.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viw/
- Homophone: viu
Noun
view f (plural views)
- (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)
- Synonym: visão
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