Sentence examples for a specific meaning from inspiring English sources

Every body movement or hand gesture had a specific meaning.

Certain combinations of characters have become pictographs in Japan, used to convey a specific meaning.

Since these ideas were conveyed largely without words in his symphonies, it was hard to pin down a specific meaning.

Let's start with the olive branch, which exemplifies how a pictorial symbol can acquire a specific meaning through an organic process of suggestion and reminder.

Although the term quahog is not unique to Rhode Island, and technically also applies to smaller hard-shell clams like cherrystones and littlenecks, it has a specific meaning on local menus.

Here is the thoughtful response from Patrick LaForge, a deputy editor on the Metro desk: First, it should be noted that a "hate crime" is a charge with a specific meaning under the New York Hate Crimes Act of 2000.

The phenomenon is familiar: you hear a sentence S1 as having a specific meaning.

Each icon has a specific meaning – a person pointing to himself for "me" or a heart for "love".

Let me formulate a market equilibrium in the long run and give a specific meaning to it in the present paper.

Actually, the Russian word "soviet" has a specific meaning.

Home, however, always had a specific meaning to McKay.