Sentence examples for meaning pointed from inspiring English sources

The original source may have been the Persian tigra meaning pointed or sharp and the Avestan tigrhi meaning an arrow, perhaps referring to the speed with which a tiger launches itself at its prey.

The director of the National Museums of Ceylon, P. E. P. Deraniyagala, decided that it was different from the other Mesoplodon species known at that time, and assigned it the name hotaula, meaning "pointed beak" in the local Sinhala language.

The persistence of this shared meaning points to one of the poetic limits of song lyrics.

Byock theorizes that the latter reference to an apple tree may imply a further symbolic meaning pointing to the apple tree of the goddess Iðunn, and that the Barnstokkr may be further identified with the world tree Yggdrasil.

In directed networks, transitivity can take on a different meaning, pointing to a distinct pair of theoretical concepts.

In the LI, Husserl employs this very same example to argue that the two sentences express different propositional meanings pointing at the same state of affairs (Hua XIX A 48), and Daubert reports having discussed this example with Husserl (cf. Schuhmann 2004d, 206 n 25).

Whereas presenting directly points at objects, meaning points at concepts, and it is by means of concepts that meaning acts can be said to refer to objects (1916, 48f).

Turo-turo is a traditional restaurant term in the Philippines meaning point, point, and that's what you do.

The name Turo-Turo is a traditional restaurant term in the Philippines meaning "point, point," and that's exactly what you do.

Paradigmatic relations combine two words with an important common component from a meaning point of view.

ES calculations are useful when the measurements have no intrinsic meaning (points on a scale) and are independent of sample size [ 44].