Meaning vs Thesis - What's the difference?
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The symbolic value of something.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The significance of a thing.
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(lb) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
(lb) Intention.
*(rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh):
*:It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
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, title= Having a (specified) intention.
Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
*1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘William Wilson’:
*:I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
A statement supported by arguments.
A written essay, especially one submitted for a university degree.
* Goldsmith
(logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
(music) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; the opposite of arsis.
(poetry) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
(poetry) The part of the metrical foot upon which such a depression falls.
As nouns the difference between meaning and thesis
is that meaning is the symbolic value of something while thesis is a statement supported by arguments.As a verb meaning
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective meaning
is having a (specified) intention.meaning
English
(wikipedia meaning)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mening, menyng, equivalent to .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* sense, definitionHyponyms
* propositionDerived terms
* antimeaning * meaning of life * meaningful * meaningless * meaninglessly * meaninglessnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
(head)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
*thesis
English
Noun
(theses)- I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them.