true meaning

collocation in English

meaningsoftrueandmeaning

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true
adjective
uk
/truː/
us
/truː/
(especially of facts or statements) right and not ...
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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 oftrueandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrue meaning

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Linguistic description is only a label to thetruemeaningof the thing to be described.
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But she will learn most movingly about thetruemeaningof love for the land and the significance of home from her father's stories.
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At the semantic level, one of the challenges for the current query processing technique is to understand thetruemeaningof a user's queries.
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I say 'unwary' because the examples given make thetruemeaningclear enough; but not everyone takes notice of examples.
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We must reawaken to thetruemeaningof liberalism.
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As a result, the term is viewed as having littletruemeaningor value.
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At the end of the eighteenth century a wide range of knowledge traditions including those of artisans, instrument makers, and engineers were in conflict about theirtruemeaningand scope.
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Some expressed the need to understand thetruemeaningof the poem, and it is at this stage that they feel it was beneficial to their thinking skills.
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Kim's attempt to define thetruemeaningof shamanism irrespective of historical circumstances is misguided.
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The term has become normalized in a manner analogous to 'agency', which, being robbed of itstruemeaning, has come to mean any and all human action.
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This they did by formulating their convictions and true sayings always in parables, so that only those of great wisdom and resource would be able to uncover theirtruemeaning.
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Notice also, that the notion of obsessional experiment has atruemeaningonly in a multiset framework.
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It produced a fabulous—that word in itstruemeaningis very appropriate in this context—prospectus.
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They all teach thetruemeaningof tolerance, the importance of charity and compassion, and the dangers of greed, obsession and self.
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I should not have said that the meaning attached to the word by a lawyer is not thetruemeaning.
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They are discretionary powers within thetruemeaningof "discretionary".
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How are we to know the "truemeaning" is explained?
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It must be regarded as a complete exercise and integrated in thetruemeaningof wholeness.
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They are a social problem in thetruemeaningof the phrase.
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