Signification Sentence Examples

The letters have the same signification as below.

In the modern signification it is applied to the act of preparing, preserving and compounding medicines, according to the prescriptions of physicians.

In accordance with this policy, the territories were not actually incorporated in the empire (there would also hav& been constitutional difficulties in doing that), and they were officially known as Protectorates (Schulzgebiete), a word which thus acquired a new signification.

In modern times the term "Aborigines" has been extended in signification, and is used to indicate the inhabitants found in a country at its first discovery, in contradistinction to colonies or new races, the time of whose introduction into the country is known.

The signification of the coalescence of the polar nuclei is not explained by these new facts, but it is noteworthy that the second male-cell is said to unite sometimes with the apical polar nucleus, the sister of the egg, before the union of this with the basal polar one.

It is derived from the adjective rab (in Aramaic, and frequently also in Hebrew, "great"), which acquired in modern Hebrew the signification of "lord," in relation to servants or slaves, and of "teacher," "master," in relation to the disciple.

In the Categories he classified names, not, however, as a grammarian by their structure, but as a logician by their signification.

It is to be observed, therefore, that Max Muller is careful to avoid any ethnological signification.

In later Greek philosophy the term KaXdv (" honestum ") became still more technical in the signification of " morally good."

Its extreme length is about ioo and its breadth varies from 70 to over ioo m., but the exact limits are vague, and the modern signification of the name practically comprehends the peninsula formed by the lower Helmund and its embouchure on the one side and the Hamun (lake) on the other.

This is what is referred to as second-order signification.

A matrix has in many parts of mathematics a signification apart from its evaluation as a determinant.

That the Sanskrit root sthag (Pali, thak), to cover, to conceal, was mainly applied to fraudulent concealment, appears from the noun sthaga, cheat, which has retained this signification in the modern vernaculars, in all of which it has assumed the form thag (commonly written thug), with a specific meaning.

While sharing the opinion of Tycho as to the origin of such bodies by condensation of nebulous matter from the Milky Way, he attached a mystical signification to the coincidence in time and place of the sidereal apparition with a triple conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Our first inquiry must therefore be directed to the signification of the term.

It is through corrupting the language and signification of architecture that a real form of resistance can be found.

In the Old Testament there was a peculiar signification attached to the name.

Signification criticisms have been raised about these tests as measures of creativity.

Speculation about the meanings of the tattoos erupted immediately and included theories such as tribe rank signification, family branding and arthritis treatments for the knees, lower back and ankles.

At first, indeed, the term was apparently confined to the regions of the central and southern districts, exclusive of Cisalpine Gaul and the whole tract north of the Apennines, and this continued to be the official or definite signification of the name down to the end of the republic. But the natural limits of Italy are so clearly marked that the name came to be generally employed as a geographical term at a much earlier period.

Thus we already find Polybius repeatedly applying it in this wider signification to the whole country, as far as the fOot of the Alps; and it is evident from many passages in the Latin writers that this was the familiar use of the term in the days of Cicero and Caesar.

Erasmus Darwin (Zoonomia, 17 94), though a zealous evolutionist, can hardly be said to have made any real advance on his predecessors; and, notwithstanding the fact that Goethe had the advantage of a wide knowledge of morphological facts, and a true insight into their signification, while he threw all the power of a great poet into the expression of his conceptions, it may be questioned whether he supplied the doctrine of evolution with a firmer scientific basis than it already possessed.

There is ground also for supposing that they may at first have been used with a specific or restricted local application, a more extended signification having eventually been given to them.

Any signification of a desire to terminate the tenancy, whether expressed as " notice " or not, will bring it to an end.

Its signification is obscure; but it certainly contains the word ushtra, " camel."

Thus, to say that a pen is an entity and the class of pens is an entity is merely a play upon the word "entity"; the second sense of "entity" (if any) is indeed derived from the first, but has a more complex signification.

When these two words are at last found in the texts in their precise signification, Austrasia is applied to that part of the Frankish kingdom which Clotaire II.

The exact signification of this purely territorial name varied greatly at different times.

Stone coal is also a local English term, but with a signification restricted to the substance known by mineralogists as anthracite.

It must be borne in mind that the signification now attached to the word coal is different from that which formerly obtained when wood was the only fuel in general use.

Boston Harbor (originally known as Massachusetts Bay, a name which now has a much broader signification) is the finest roadstead on the coast.

Willughby in 1676 it was the name given by Yorkshiremen to the bird popularly known in England as the " Summer-Snipe," - the Tringa hypoleucos of Linnaeus and the Totanus hypoleucos of later writers, - but probably even in Willughby's time the name was of much wider signification.

And the price is that the reader's perception of the signification of the word or words so wrested is dimmed and impaired, and his power of discriminating and understanding them when he meets them again is shot with doubt and error.

And at first chevalier in its general and honorary signification seems to have been rendered not by knight but by rider, as may be inferred from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, wherein it is recorded under the year 1085 that William the Conqueror " dubbade his sunu Henric to ridere."

Creditor and debtor have also lost their Roman law signification; they have been narrowed to mean the parties where the obligation is the payment of a sum of money.

In a restricted sense the term assaying is applied in metallurgy to the determination of the amount of gold or silver in ores or alloys; in this article, however, it will be used in a wider technical signification, and will include a description of the methods for the quantitative determination of those elements in ores which affect their value in metallurgical operations.

In agriculture the word has an extended signification to include the various fodder-plants, chiefly leguminous, often called " artificial grasses."

Afterwards, and especially in these parts of the Catalan domain outside of Catalonia which did not acknowledge that they derived their language from that province, Lesnosi received a more extensive signification, so as to mean the literary language in general, whether of verse or of prose.

It is possible, however, that "gate" is used here in its old signification, and that the name means simply high road.

The letters have the same signification throughout.

In the early Church the title had a more general signification.

Of the original signification of the word, I think there can be little doubt.

The Quality - level is some directly measurable data that is likely to have the same signification across devices.

They transcend cultural signification to speak about a broad visual experience.

But if Mars is taken to mean its natural signification, does that mean that the glasses will be found by a military person?

For the expression of a face and the signification of this expression have no relation or connection with space.