It simply says that unnecessary elements in a symbolism mean nothing.

Out-of-place elements usually meant one thing: the picture you'd formed was in some way false.

Whatever that element may once have meant, in contemporary English it suggests a male referent.

The second element means a post or pillar.

Thus 'fifth' can mean the element between fourth and sixth, or the fraction created by dividing the unit into five pieces.

"The elements of what people call popular culture meant a lot to me, but didn't seem to mean a lot to intellectuals," he explains.

Were those elements sufficiently extreme to mean that the elections could not be justified?

However, these positive elements do not mean that we can ignore the distressing consequences involved for the regions where the jobs are lost.

However, larger graphical elements meant less screen space was available for programs to draw.

Those elements, however, didn't mean the dead parts of literary convention.