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The Japanese word

意味

is pronounced
imi | いみ
means
meaning
Examples:
この文の意味は曖昧だ。
kono bun no imi wa aimai da.
The meaning of this sentence is ambiguous.
生きる意味を教えてくれ。
ikiru imi o oshie te kure.
Tell me the meaning of life.
全く意味の等しい言葉はない。
mattaku imi no hitoshī kotoba wa nai.
No two words are identical in meaning.
愛のない人生など全く無意味だ。
ai no nai jinsei nado mattaku muimi da.
Life without love is just totally pointless. | Life without love is meaningless. | Life without love has no meaning.
文の前後関係から単語の意味を知る。
bun no zengo kankei kara tango no imi o shiru.
Get the meaning of a word from its context.
彼女の言葉はまったく無意味だった。
kanojo no kotoba wa mattaku muimi datta.
Her words were wholly void of meaning. | Her words were completely meaningless. | What she said was completely meaningless.
彼は彼女のいう意味をはっきり理解した。
kare wa kanojo no iu imi o hakkiri rikai shi ta.
He grasped her meaning clearly.
こだわりはお客に伝わってこそ意味をなす。
kodawari wa okyaku ni tsutawatte koso imi o nasu.
Care over the particulars only has meaning once it gets across to customers.
彼はその句の文字どおりの意味を説明した。
kare wa sono ku no mojidōri no imi o setsumei shi ta.
He explained the literal meaning of the phrase.
先生はその単語の意味を私たちに説明した。
sensei wa sono tango no imi o watashi tachi ni setsumei shi ta.
The teacher explained the meaning of the word to us.
彼はその文章の文字どおりの意味を説明した。
kare wa sono bunshō no mojidōri no imi o setsumei shi ta.
He explained the literal meaning of the sentences. | He explained the literal meaning of the sentence.
彼らは人生の意味という主題について討論した。
karera wa jinsei no imi toyū judai nitsuite tōron shi ta.
They discussed the subject of the offender of the meaning of life.
単語の意味はそれが使われている文脈で決まる。
tango no imi wa sore ga tsukawa re te iru bunmyaku de kimaru.
The meaning of a word is determined by the context where it is used.
彼の言葉にはどこかなぞめいた意味があるようだ。
kare no kotoba ni wa doko ka na zomei ta imi ga aru yō da.
There seems to be some dark meaning in his words.
単語の意味がわからなければ、辞書で調べなさい。
tango no imi ga wakara nakere ba, jisho de shirabe nasai.
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
ドルペッグの意味は、強い国につけということです。
dorupeggu no imi wa, tsuyoi kuni ni tsuke toyū koto desu.
The meaning of the 'dollar peg' is "stick with the strong countries.".
彼女は彼の言葉を同意を意味していると受け取った。
kanojo wa kare no kotoba o dōi o imi shi te iru to uketotta.
She took what he said as meaning agreement.
読んで見てわたしはその本の全体の意味をつかんだ。
yon de mi te watashi wa sono hon no zentai no imi o tsukan da.
I grasped the whole meaning of the book by reading.
現在はTETRAの操作的な意味を 「すべての消費可能なリソースを消費する」と与えている。
### - genzai wa TETRA no sōsa teki na imi o ' subete no shōhi kanō na risōsu o shōhi suru ' to atae te iru.
At present "consume all consumable resources" is assigned as the operational meaning of TETRA.
Examples sourced from tatoeba.org