Sentence examples for defined to mean from inspiring English sources

Burglary is defined to mean the unlawful taking of property within premises that have been closed and in which there are visible marks evidencing forcible entry.

The term 'transportation company' is defined to mean a common carrier for compensation over any public highway between fixed termini or over a regular route.

If "natural" is defined to mean "congruent with our biological instincts," it's arguably one of the more unnatural arrangements imaginable.

The term algorithm has been defined to mean a rule of calculation that guides an intelligent being or a logical mechanism to arrive at numerical or symbolic results.

In biomedical research, cloning is broadly defined to mean the duplication of any kind of biological material for scientific study, such as a piece of DNA or an individual cell.

“[W]ork which exists in the national economy” is defined to mean “work which exists in significant numbers either in the region where such individual lives or in several regions of the country.” Ibid.

Somehow over the last several decades, this dream was re-defined to mean that you can have anything you want.

We defined "sacred" to mean a strong cultural veneration.

But Osborne simply defines progressive to mean whatever the Tories believe this month.

Paragraph (1) defines "Act" to mean the Commodity Exchange Act [7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.].

Most carmakers would narrowly define platform to mean the chassis of the car.