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# meaning

«meaning» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **what it stands for or expresses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a meaning, meanings); adjective in «well-meaning»; verb form (mean, means, meant, meaning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The meaning of a word or sign is what it stands for or expresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#m1)

2) The meaning of something is its purpose or importance: the meaning of life, a life full of meaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#m2)

3) The hidden message or idea behind something: the meaning of a poem or a dream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#m3)

4) «Meaning» is also the -ing form of «mean»: I've been meaning to call you (planning to). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons: look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary; words with more than one meaning. In maths: the meaning of a symbol (+ means add). In religion and ethics: the meaning of life, the meaning of a parable. Phrase: «I've been meaning to…» = I've wanted and planned to.

### examples

- The meaning of Belimah is more doubtful. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x1)
- What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x2)
- 18) Meaning outlets, outgates of the creative power, formations. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x3)
- What is the meaning of «enormous»? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x4)
- Some words have more than one meaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x5)
- The red light has a clear meaning: stop! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x6)
- We discussed the meaning of the poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x7)
- Helping others gives her life meaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x8)
- Jesus told parables with a deeper meaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x9)
- I've been meaning to tidy my room all week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x10)
- A shrug can have many meanings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x11)
- He understood the gypsy woman's meaning now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/#x12)

### note

Countable (meanings). Related: meaningful (important), meaningless (with no meaning or point), well-meaning (with good intentions). Maths: knowing the meaning of each symbol (=, <, >, ÷) is key to reading problems.

### In the corpora

- ["Your room looks like a bomb's hit it" is an exaggeration meaning the room is very messy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/13/)
- [Sometimes a child sees a few seconds or minutes of a film made for adults without meaning to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/0/)
- [Scientists still study why we dream; there is no evidence that dream pictures have fixed hidden meanings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/14/)
- [In tests in Hawaii, dolphins understood that word order in hand-signal sentences changes the meaning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/14/)
- [Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meaning» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/meaning/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.