| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The gist of a specific action or situation: idea, import, meaning, point, significance, significancy. See MEANING. 2. The general sense or significance, as of an action or statement: amount, burden2, drift, import, substance, tenor. Idioms: sum and substance, sum total. See MEANING. 3. That which is signified by a word or expression: acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, meaning, message, sense, significance, significancy, signification, value. See MEANING. 4. The thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse: aim, burden2, drift, intent, meaning, substance, tendency, tenor, thrust. See MEANING.
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