intended meaning

collocation in English

meaningsofintendedandmeaning

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intended
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ɪnˈten.dɪd/
us
/ɪnˈten.dɪd/
the person that you are going ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofintendedandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These studies also reveal that the determination of anintendedmeaningis not an algorithmic process ruled by logical, semantic, or other fixed interpretative schemata.
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The score was the percentage of correct identifications of theintendedmeaning.
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In realtime processing, these cues may converge or compete to express a particularintendedmeaning.
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A typical essentialist language user is convinced that he or she uses the only correct words to express anintendedmeaning.
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Second, it can lead to discussions of the context, the possible intended audience and theintendedmeaning.
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Rather than having the forms 'compete for selection', speakers choose the most probable form to express theirintendedmeaning, including social meaning.
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It is important to state once again that this critique of voice revolves around a quiet, unspoken voice directly tied to consciouslyintendedmeaning.
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Each segment consisted of two sentences, each containing the key word, and together providing information about the key word'sintendedmeaning.
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I have great difficulty, however, imagining that this was the authoriallyintendedmeaning, or that this was a necessary mode of viewing the opera.
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We define unstructured information as information whoseintendedmeaningis only loosely implied by its form.
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Particular propositional meanings are conveyed only in context, via the addressee's applying certain principles of reasoning about the speaker'sintendedmeaning.
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For homonyms, theintendedmeaningwas given in parentheses.
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It seems misguided to argue that since plausible verifications trigger the search forintendedmeaning, they also enter into the pragmatics-rich semantics.
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He also realized that, as a translator, it was incumbent on him to coin terminolog y that would convey theintendedmeaning.
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Traditionally, semantic processors have relied on syntactic information in order to disambiguate theintendedmeaningof an utterance.
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The position of the illustration corresponding to theintendedmeaningwas counterbalanced across the six trials for each key word category.
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We explain theintendedmeaningof these new types below.
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These directions provide children with additional information about the speaker'sintendedmeaning, especially with respect to unfamiliar words.
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Theintendedmeaningis the same as in the implicational case.
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