Sentence examples for abstract meaning from inspiring English sources

The word lexicon designates a wordbook, but it also has a special abstract meaning among linguists, referring to the body of separable structural units of which the language is made up.

However, this practice cannot help a student to extract abstract meaning in the equation.

The core of CT might be the capacity to transpose abstract meaning into concrete meaning.

He gives the example of using loops in programming, which may lose its abstract meaning after repeated use.

The recent creation of a general corpus annotated with an "abstract meaning representation", AMR, is likely to foster progress in that direction (Banarescu et al. 2013).

(We formally define these properties later in section 4. Until then, inverted commas are used to refer to them for their abstract meaning).

This physical exploration of music's abstract meanings was best realized on two cover songs.

Both scripts began with pictures of things, such as a beetle or a hand, and then some of these symbols developed more abstract meanings, representing ideas in some cases and sounds in others.

People interpret abstract meanings from colors, which makes color a useful perceptual feature for visual communication.

Where Husserl's categories were of abstract meanings, Leśniewski, ever the nominalist, substituted categories of (concrete) expressions.

All abstract concepts, he argues, are the result of a progressive growing apart between an original sensual denotation and its future abstract meanings (IB, II, 248 258).