Sentence examples for meaning and function from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the concept, meaning, and function of culture rarely garners much thought.

To respond to a communication is to assent to its meaning and function.

Whether this was the specific meaning and function of the censer is uncertain.

The meaning and function of these and other genres are considered within their specific Mesopotamian social context.

The original meaning and function of the fawātiḥ, which are associated principally with sūrāhs dating from the late Meccan period (before ad 622), has not been preserved.

Clarifying the meaning and function of these terms in a socio-political system can be a helpful start towards unraveling the notion of transparency.

The reality is that the EU has evolved – in numbers, meaning and functions – because life has evolved too.

The latter view is taken by the British Classicist Geoffrey S. Kirk, who in Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (1970) uses the term myth to denote stories with an underlying purpose beyond that of simple story-telling and the term folktale to denote stories that reflect simple social situations and play on ordinary fears and desires.

Ms. Gubar may not be a health professional, but as a noted feminist critic (she is an author of the influential 1970s classic "Madwoman in the Attic"), she has certainly spent a career immersed in the meaning and functions of the female body.

Rivalry begins when we wonder whether some account or other captures the meaning and functioning of negation as it is used in the vernacular.

Jonathan Hall's earlier research was focused on the cultural and social history of ancient Greece, with a particular emphasis on the construction, meaning, and functions of ethnic identity among Greek communities.