Sentence examples for peculiar meaning from inspiring English sources

It was the gift of a lifelong Anglophile to his beloved, a book encrypted with peculiar meaning to a man with a special fascination for the complicated relation of autobiography to storytelling.

For stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Era, the Mediterranean is of peculiar meaning because nearly all stages are defined with their GSSPs in this region.

Unlike AUX scripts, there is no peculiar meaning attached to the last line, but the function body must include expressions to generate all output variables.

But these studies show a relevant selection [ 184] and randomization bias: patients did not receive a tailored treatment but a default intervention that did not consider patients' peculiar meaning of the disorder.

This solution had a peculiar behaviour at what is now called the Schwarzschild radius, where it became singular, meaning that some of the terms in the Einstein equations became infinite.

Yet there is something curious here, in the sense of peculiar: a meaning that, the exhibition tells us, prevented the Reys' British publisher from following the American example in naming the monkey.

As early as 1971, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, M.I.T.'s student paper, The Tech, was using random as an adjective meaning "peculiar, strange" or as a noun to disparage people outside a community, particularly the community of computer hackers.

I knew he wanted rum, but he's a smart, funny guy, and the other meanings of "rummy" — it can mean "peculiar," and as a noun it's a synonym for "drunk" — couldn't have escaped him, either.

It is manifest in the widespread search for meaning – a peculiar characteristic of the modern age: our medieval and ancient forebears showed few signs of it, if anything suffering from an excess of meaning.

It terrified me because this peculiar metaphor has specific meaning in Jewish ears.

To address the concerns, the present study will explore the semantic distinctions lexicalized in Mandarin EPs and identify the ranges of form-meaning associations peculiar to the lexical subclasses, as compared to those in English and other languages.