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import
Importance
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  1. Importance
  2. Meaning; signification:
  3. Importance; significance:
significance
The state or quality of being significant:
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  1. The state or quality of being significant:
  2. A meaning that is expressed or implied:
  3. Importance; consequence; moment
intent
(Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
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  1. (Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
  2. A purpose; object; aim
  3. Meaning or import
indicate
To be or give a sign, token, or indication of; signify; betoken
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  1. To be or give a sign, token, or indication of; signify; betoken
  2. To serve as a sign, symptom, or token of; signify:
  3. To suggest or demonstrate the necessity, expedience, or advisability of:
imply
To involve by logical necessity; entail:
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  1. To involve by logical necessity; entail:
  2. To have as a necessary part, condition, or effect; contain, include, or involve naturally or necessarily
  3. To indicate indirectly or by allusion; hint; suggest; intimate
acceptation
Favorable reception; approval.
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  1. Favorable reception; approval.
  2. The usual or accepted meaning, as of a word or expression:
  3. The generally accepted meaning (of a word or expression)
connotation
(Logic) The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term; intension.
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  1. (Logic) The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term; intension.
  2. An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing:
  3. A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
denotation
Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.
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  1. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.
  2. The direct, explicit meaning or reference of a word or term
  3. The most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
import
Importance; significance:
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  1. Importance; significance:
  2. Meaning; signification
  3. Meaning; signification:
intent
(Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
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  1. (Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
  2. A purpose; object; aim
  3. Meaning or import
meaning
The practical or essential significance of some concept or quality
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  1. The practical or essential significance of some concept or quality
  2. A sense of importance or purpose:
  3. Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
message
The chief idea or theme that a speaker, writer, etc. seeks to communicate
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  1. The chief idea or theme that a speaker, writer, etc. seeks to communicate
  2. A statement made or read before a gathering:
  3. A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another:
sense
Judgment; consensus:
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  1. Judgment; consensus:
  2. Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters:
  3. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation:
significance
The state or quality of being significant:
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  1. The state or quality of being significant:
  2. A meaning that is expressed or implied:
  3. That which is signified; meaning
signification
The action or process of signifying:
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  1. The action or process of signifying:
  2. Significance; meaning
  3. Meaning or significance, especially of a word.
value
That quality of a thing according to which it is thought of as being more or less desirable, useful, estimable, important, etc.; worth or the degree of worth
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  1. That quality of a thing according to which it is thought of as being more or less desirable, useful, estimable, important, etc.; worth or the degree of worth
  2. Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit:
  3. Precise meaning or import, as of a word.
idea
The gist or significance:
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  1. The gist or significance:
  2. A plan, purpose, or goal:
  3. A sense that something can happen; a notion or expectation:
import
Meaning; signification
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  1. Meaning; signification
  2. A product brought in the course of commerce into a country other than the one in which it originated
  3. Meaning; signification:
meaning
A sense of importance or purpose:
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  1. A sense of importance or purpose:
  2. The practical or essential significance of some concept or quality
  3. Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
point
The major idea or essential part of a concept or narrative:
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  1. The major idea or essential part of a concept or narrative:
  2. A significant, outstanding, or effective idea, argument, or suggestion:
  3. An impressive or telling argument, fact, or idea
significance
A meaning that is expressed or implied:
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  1. A meaning that is expressed or implied:
  2. That which is signified; meaning
  3. The state or quality of being significant:
amount
Quantity:
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  1. Quantity:
  2. A quantity
  3. A number; a sum.
burden
In property law, anything that encumbers or restrict the use or value of land, such as an easement, restrictive covenant, or zoning ordinance. The burden indefinitely binds the current and all future owners until it is extinguished, so it is the land, and the landowner, that is burdened by the encumbrance or restriction. See estate.
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  1. In property law, anything that encumbers or restrict the use or value of land, such as an easement, restrictive covenant, or zoning ordinance. The burden indefinitely binds the current and all future owners until it is extinguished, so it is the land, and the landowner, that is burdened by the encumbrance or restriction. See estate.
  2. The amount of a disease-causing entity present in an organism.
  3. (Nautical) The amount of cargo that a vessel can carry.
drift
Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.
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  1. Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.
  2. A being driven or carried along, as by a current of air or water or by circumstances
  3. (Electronics) A deviation or variation of a quantity, as voltage, from its assigned value
import
Importance; significance:
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  1. Importance; significance:
  2. A product brought in the course of commerce into a country other than the one in which it originated
  3. The act or business of importing (goods)
substance
That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value:
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  1. That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value:
  2. Density; body:
  3. That which has mass and occupies space; matter.
tenor
General course or tendency
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  1. General course or tendency
  2. The exact wording or an exact copy of a legal document
  3. In a set of bells for ringing changes, the bell with the lowest tone
aim
The degree of accuracy of a weapon or of a person aiming a weapon or propelled object:
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  1. The degree of accuracy of a weapon or of a person aiming a weapon or propelled object:
  2. The object to be attained; intention or purpose
  3. The ability to hit a target or intended point:
burden
A source of great worry or stress; weight:
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  1. A source of great worry or stress; weight:
  2. The weight of the cargo carried by a vessel at one time.
  3. In property law, anything that encumbers or restrict the use or value of land, such as an easement, restrictive covenant, or zoning ordinance. The burden indefinitely binds the current and all future owners until it is extinguished, so it is the land, and the landowner, that is burdened by the encumbrance or restriction. See estate.
drift
A gradual movement or change in some direction or toward some end or purpose; trend; tendency
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  1. A gradual movement or change in some direction or toward some end or purpose; trend; tendency
  2. A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.
  3. General meaning or purport; tenor:
intent
(Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
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  1. (Law) One's mental attitude, including purpose, will, determination, etc., at the time of doing an act
  2. A purpose; object; aim
  3. Meaning or import
meaning
What is meant; what is intended to be, or in fact is, signified, indicated, referred to, or understood
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  1. What is meant; what is intended to be, or in fact is, signified, indicated, referred to, or understood
  2. A sense of importance or purpose:
  3. Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
substance
A material of a particular kind or constitution.
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  1. A material of a particular kind or constitution.
  2. The physical matter of which a thing consists; material
  3. Material possessions; goods; wealth:
tendency
A course or apparent course toward some purpose, object, or result; drift
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  1. A course or apparent course toward some purpose, object, or result; drift
  2. An inclination to move or act in a particular direction or way; constant disposition to some action or state; leaning; bias; propensity; bent
  3. Movement or prevailing movement in a given direction:
tenor
The general course or character of something:
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  1. The general course or character of something:
  2. The word, phrase, or subject with which the vehicle of a metaphor is identified, as life in
  3. The general meaning; the purport or drift:
thrust
The essential meaning; the point:
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  1. The essential meaning; the point:
  2. The force that propels an object in a given direction, especially when generated by the object itself, as by an engine or rocket.
  3. The basic meaning or purpose; point; force
Find another word for purport. In this page you can discover 47 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for purport, like: import, significance, intent, indicate, imply, claim to be, meaning, mean, acceptation, connotation and denotation.

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  • The oldest books now in the possession of the modern Jains purport to go back, not to the foundation of the existing order in the 6th century B.C., but only to the time of Bhadrabahu, three centuries later.

  • The use for which the pot was intended and the purport of the inscription have been much disputed, there being at least as many interpretations as there are words in the inscription.

  • But the main purport of the treatise was the exposition of an elaborate system of celestial harmonies depending on the various and varying velocities of the several planets, of which the sentient soul animating the sun was the solitary auditor.

  • The apocryphal Acta Barnabae purport to have been written by him.

  • But the trend of recent policy and purport of much recent legislation are against this view.

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