"meaning" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Nikki said she didn't get it, and Angela had to explain the figurative meaning.
- To shed light on something is a phrase with both literal and figurative meanings.
- Often the plural declension is used to give a figurative meaning.
- By analogy, the term has taken the figurative meaning of "conduct very mixed".
- The literal sense (no. 116) pertains to the meaning of the words themselves, including any figurative meanings.
- The story has a figurative meaning, not just a literal one.
- A second sense in English has a more figurative meaning - inspiration for a fight.
- This phrase had the figurative meaning of knowing that one knows, as the modern English word "conscious" does.
- This is what is called a figurative meaning: it's a figure of speech.
- It seems that every new word I learn has a figurative meaning which is often quite different from the literal meaning.
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