Sentence examples for description meaning from inspiring English sources

"New" is a generic description meaning "young," as is "fingerling".

'Petrarch', on this view, may be a disguised ordinary description meaning the same as 'The famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance'.

On the other hand, if (as Kaplan proposes: 1989a) 'you' refers directly to an individual, without amounting to a disguised description meaning the same as a description like 'the person at the door', then it would seem to be rigid.

8. Further, we might hold that the theory of direct reference is merely an empirical theory about natural language, and that even if it is true, there are other possible languages in which a name spelled and pronounced like 'Petrarch' is a disguised description meaning the same as 'the famous humanist most closely associated in α with the Italian Renaissance'.

Mynyddog Mwynfawr was not a person's name but a personal description meaning 'mountain feast' or 'mountain chief'.

These were tools to distinguish between description, meaning and theoretical content in process and merged inductively with field notes.

There are several titles or job descriptions meaning dependable or trusted: A "trusty" may be a minimum security prisoner who is allowed to have freedoms and to use construction equipment, or to go -- unchained -- off prison grounds (probably under the watchful eye of one or two guards for a group of trusty prisoners) to do work such as to clean around the prison or at a state park, etc.

Any description of willing, Pfänder argues, requires a preliminary description of meaning acts.

There are pleasant quibbles over details, but in broad outline, the account is a very plausible description of meaning.

Then we extracted a short description of meaning units.

Effort was made to ensure that the merged list captured the original description and meaning.