Sentence examples for separate meanings from inspiring English sources

And what of cultural inflections that seem to separate meanings otherwise identical?

Trust in American politics has alternately carried two related but separate meanings.

It is possible to recognize three distinct, though not separate, meanings ascribed to ritual anointments by the devotees of various religions.

Of the separate meanings of equality, only one has become uncontroversial: that for all their unequal endowments, people have equal worth: "A man's a man for a' that," said Robbie Burns.

So, when a man, who can get his head around so many tiny distinctions - the difference between Tokai and Beaumes de Venise, the separate meanings of "turbo" and "super", the subtle shift from Yes to Mötley Crüe - when that man mulishly refutes a difference this great, I can only take it as a veiled insult to women.

Discordance has two separate meanings.

Different species may also "compete" ecologically, but that is a separate meaning of the word.

But Ms. Shankar's phrasing, like Edith Piaf's, is eloquent testimony to singing's power to separate meaning from language.

In some ferns the sexes are separate, meaning a gametophyte will bear only male or female sex organs.

That's why marriage, whatever the word's separate meaning as a spiritual or religious rite, will remain a pressing constitutional issue in a country founded on equality.

And, he said, depending how long and at what temperatures the tube was stored, the goo inside could separate, meaning less or more fluoride in each squeeze, and less or more flavoring agent, which could be mintily disconcerting.