noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
appreciate the significance/importance/value of sth
▪ He did not fully appreciate the significance of signing the contract.
exaggerate the importance/significance (of sth)
▪ Personally, I think society exaggerates the importance of marriage.
play down the importance/seriousness/significance of sth
▪ The White House spokeswoman sought to play down the significance of the event.
symbolic importance/significance
▪ The capture of the city was of great symbolic importance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
▪ These changing circumstances, which are outside the control of governments either national or local, are often of considerable significance.
▪ At the same time, the economic functions of government-Federal, state, and local-are of very considerable significance.
▪ A note on research in polytechnics was to have considerable significance in the history of the polytechnics.
▪ This has considerable significance for the communication of emotional states and personal interaction.
▪ Section 5 of the Act creates a relatively minor offence which is likely to be of considerable practical significance.
▪ The manner in which people are helped with those confused and painful feelings may have considerable significance for their future mental health.
▪ Tourism, served by some large hotels but mainly bed and breakfast facilities in many croft houses, is of considerable significance.
▪ Having a constitution in our country in written form is proving of considerable significance.
economic
▪ However, the idea of capital maintenance also has economic significance: income is only recognized after capital has been maintained intact.
▪ We return to the economic significance of these gases in chapters 4 and 8.
▪ The economic significance of this division was that it made possible a very high rate of saving.
▪ In section 4.2 we shall look at the economic significance of the group as a whole.
▪ There is no doubt about the political and economic significance of this programme.
▪ Nor has an event of this kind had such political and economic significance.
▪ Police studies Fraud is an area of crime of growing economic and social significance, but little is known about its victims.
▪ A third marked contrast, of enormous ecological and economic significance, is in leaf litter.
full
▪ At this stage we were not aware of the full significance of the movement of the spoil to form the rampart.
▪ Her death rated a few lines in the papers, but the full significance of her passing went unreported.
▪ It is reckoned that Step 1 normally takes about one year to grasp and accept in its full significance.
▪ The full significance of these combinations is as yet uncertain.
▪ But although essential, these conditions are not sufficient to explain the full significance of such references.
▪ This observation has occasionally even found its way into the specialist literature, but it is easy to miss its full significance.
functional
▪ What then is their functional significance?
▪ For these reasons the functional significance of these observations is difficult to assess.
▪ These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level.
▪ The mutation has no functional significance and controls no traits, researchers say.
▪ For the purpose of analyzing the functional significance of chaos it is not necessary to make this distinction.
general
▪ It must therefore be acquired and taught in a way which gives it general significance.
▪ Analysis of normal and abnormal function of central pattern generators probably has a more general significance.
▪ But even recurrent sense relations are of varying general significance.
▪ First, as a support for services that have a national or general significance as opposed to being of simply local concern.
great
▪ Of greater significance are differences that occur in the difficulties and constraints in the utilisation of the basic resources.
▪ Because the authors perceive oral communication to be of great significance in business, they further recommend that: 7.
▪ We also suggest that the kind of mix that results has great significance for the stability and performance of the political system.
▪ During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later.
▪ But later on it will assume much greater significance as a vehicle for the dramatic thrust of the music.
▪ A second, of even greater significance, was closely associated with it.
▪ In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming.
historical
▪ When he collaborated directly with her in opera the result was of historical significance.
▪ Yet something happened, whether or not the perpetrators and participants were aware of its historical significance.
▪ The fact that in many societies all three are illegal does not mean that they have a similar social or historical significance.
▪ The moment was one of unique historical significance.
little
▪ Except in the more extreme cases mentioned there is little or no significance in them.
▪ The results were or little significance at the time.
major
▪ It is very often the intangible and indeterminate savings which provide to be of major significance. 2.
▪ But there are times when stories appear that are of major significance from your point of view.
▪ As yet, however, there have been no further privatizations of major significance.
▪ No other newspapers of major significance were in existence.
▪ In McEnroe's case, the Garden was the scene of his last triumph of major significance.
▪ The act of joining the scheme in this way is of major significance to the delivery of courses recast in this way.
▪ Three of these are of major significance: scientism, relativism and religious intolerance.
▪ It was therefore an event of major significance when Law's retirement was announced in March 1921.
national
▪ Under the Bill there will be problems deciding whether the matter has local or national significance.
▪ Some remained essentially local, some gained a widespread popular recognition, and certain deities rose to national significance.
▪ They cover courses which the Government believe should be secured at national level because of their national significance.
▪ First, as a support for services that have a national or general significance as opposed to being of simply local concern.
▪ This long-passed-by and relatively infrequently visited church has two historic treasures of National significance.
▪ Nearly all were rated as doing work of national significance.
particular
▪ In this constellation, the Right identifies housing as of particular significance.
▪ This provision is of particular significance in relation to salaried partners.
▪ The growth of institutional investment is regarded as being of particular significance in this respect.
▪ The ageing of the elderly population itself is now of particular significance.
▪ Secondly, because of their position in the family economy, deepening poverty has a particular significance for women.
▪ Of particular significance is the implication that vaccinations and immunisations for young children must be affected.
▪ Two pieces of legislation were of particular significance: the 1980 and 1982 Employment Acts.
▪ The station was built on a site of particular significance in the history of Bombay.
political
▪ The political significance of this is a matter of controversy.
▪ With the advent of independence in 1961, the cultural gap between colony and protectorate suddenly assumed new and larger political significance.
▪ It is always difficult to assess the political significance of an individual leader.
▪ As we use it here, the term conservative has little or no political significance.
▪ Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers.
▪ The political significance of this change should not be underestimated.
▪ Not withstanding Gore's insistence that his decision was based on personal considerations, the decision was widely seen as of great political significance.
▪ The Joint Committee gave millions of dollars to various institutions, and this soon acquired a political and moral significance.
practical
▪ This result has indirect value as well as direct practical significance.
▪ Section 5 of the Act creates a relatively minor offence which is likely to be of considerable practical significance.
▪ Of much greater practical significance, and by no means obsolete, is the power to punish for contempt.
▪ Three Levels on which rationality has practical significance may be distinguished, which I shall call groundedness, enlightenment and emancipation.
real
▪ There is one artist in every generation whose work possesses real significance, he said.
▪ For anything of real cosmic significance there are always three factors involved.
▪ Although there is a difference, the distinction between the two may be philosophical, with no real significance for us.
▪ But there is a real significance in psychological attention to the year 2000 already apparent.
▪ His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance.
▪ This is an esoteric law which can explain much to those capable of noting its real significance.
religious
▪ Some seem to have religious significance.
▪ However, church officials have refused saying a teddy bear has no religious significance.
▪ There is no evidence to suggest that such orientation has the same religious significance as they did for Teotihuacan.
▪ Eating is also a matter of habit and social activity and may have cultural or religious significance.
▪ This brief ritual has little or no religious significance.
▪ The sacral horns appear in a great many images of religious significance.
▪ There are many items which have developed religious significance.
▪ It was a green scarf but let me quickly say that it was bereft of religious significance.
social
▪ In this way she indicates the intellectual vitality and the social significance of medicine in the period.
▪ They should give a context that adds a background of social significance.
▪ Claudia had concluded that the rituals of life have a social significance: they are what makes us human.
▪ This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance.
▪ The fact that in many societies all three are illegal does not mean that they have a similar social or historical significance.
▪ Police studies Fraud is an area of crime of growing economic and social significance, but little is known about its victims.
▪ According to Weber the city's real social and political significance was limited to the particular historical circumstances of the mediaeval period.
▪ Design is perceived as having little cultural or social significance.
special
▪ Prolonged staring with wide-open eyes has a special significance for the cat.
▪ There was special added significance: She was just 5 years old.
▪ So it was that the scenic heritage of coast and countryside took on a special significance.
▪ The key of E flat major held a very special significance, as we shall see later.
▪ The preeminence assigned to last hours on earth gave a special significance to the final words of the dying.
▪ Are early experiences of special significance just because they are early, and is the child more malleable at that time?
▪ There is no special significance to the width of bars, but it should be uniform.
statistical
▪ Tumour grading and tumour invasion were of borderline statistical significance.
▪ Statistical analysis Statistical significance was assessed by the Mann-Whitney U test.
▪ Although platelet thromboxane generation was elevated in diabetics without clinical evidence of vascular disease, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
▪ Instead of counted matchings, these can be properly correlated and noted in terms of their statistical significance and clustered.
▪ The statistical significance of the area chosen must, of course, be known.
▪ The difference in motility indices for the total period and the postprandial period did not reach statistical significance.
▪ The statistical significance of the difference between the mean value of groups was tested by Student's t test for unpaired values.
symbolic
▪ The body, too, may have its symbolic significance.
▪ But meantime the story is rich in symbolic significance for the travails of our age.
▪ Each separation contains symbolic significance, incorporating transitional stages of liminality.
▪ The horn holds immense symbolic significance.
▪ Certain kinds of behaviour, even when considered on its own, may have a symbolic significance that its witnesses find insulting.
▪ None of this is to downplay the actual and symbolic significance of Lieberman's Jewishness.
▪ Their symbolic significance was also very plain.
▪ Some still hope to find symbolic significance in Darwinism.
true
▪ The true significance of Kirov's death doubtless eluded him.
▪ That is where his agenda is focused, and that is his true significance.
▪ Their predecessors are still to be found, sometimes cheaply with those who do not know their true significance and worth.
▪ Professor Hoskins certainly mentions these, but perhaps fails to give them their true significance.
▪ All this then, in a nutshell, is the true significance of our work.
▪ The true significance of these groups was fourfold.
wide
▪ It was an essential part of the peace settlement package but has a wider significance than just between the parties.
▪ But the Bush administration is determined to claim that it has wider significance.
▪ Of wider significance was the effect on postal communication.
▪ Finally, as the revolution approached, the issue assumed much wider significance.
▪ The results will be of interest to food retailers and have a wider significance for other areas of retailing.
▪ For us, the technology that produced Dolly has far wider significance.
▪ Although originally solely bilateral, the U.K. Conventions have some wider significance.
▪ It was a gesture without any wider significance, she knew that; she was exorcising and placating no one but herself.
■ VERB
appreciate
▪ That does not mean that they parroted slogans without appreciating their significance.
▪ The reader will no doubt appreciate the significance of this statement.
▪ If they are left unaware of impending judgment they will not appreciate the significance of salvation.
▪ One does not need to acquire hermeneutical skills to appreciate the significance and personal challenge presented by the great truths of salvation.
▪ In these days of piped water supply, it is difficult to appreciate the significance and importance of sources of pure water.
▪ This ensures that only those who fully appreciate the significance of the modules are included in the sanctioning procedure.
▪ They sat down for a meal with the missionaries, fully appreciating the significance of their actions.
▪ To appreciate the significance of the lyrical origin of tragedy, we must first elucidate lyric poetry as such.
assess
▪ It is always difficult to assess the political significance of an individual leader.
▪ So we shall briefly stand back and assess its significance.
▪ Departures from the null hypothesis were assessed at the 5% significance level.
▪ This present study was not designed to assess the biological significance of endotoxaemia, however, nor the treatment of colitis.
▪ Focusing on class situation enabled us to assess the significance of the challenge that the information specialists might pose to managerial authority.
assume
▪ But later on it will assume much greater significance as a vehicle for the dramatic thrust of the music.
▪ By the end of the Old Kingdom the role of Osiris as ruler of the dead began to assume more significance.
▪ The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
▪ Under certain conditions, conformity thus assumes an understandable significance.
▪ What research does is to reformulate the familiar so that it assumes a new significance.
▪ These arguments have assumed increasing significance given the general economic situation and the strategies of the present government.
attach
▪ And, as people get older, they tend to attach greater significance to the home in providing such security.
▪ Pluralists, in fact, attach much significance and power to action involvement, and skill in the political market place.
▪ Of the two, historians normally attach greatest significance to the former.
explain
▪ I shall try to explain further the significance of this distinction in the pages that follow.
▪ An interactive video explains the significance of the symbols and the logic of their arrangement along vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines.
▪ Finally, such figures also help to explain the significance of the committals explosion.
▪ But although essential, these conditions are not sufficient to explain the full significance of such references.
give
▪ It must therefore be acquired and taught in a way which gives it general significance.
▪ The economic climate of the 1980's may give new significance to the DRAs.
▪ The preeminence assigned to last hours on earth gave a special significance to the final words of the dying.
▪ The tendency amongst many contemporary psychologists is to give less significance than Freud to the purely psychosexual aspects of property.
▪ Professor Hoskins certainly mentions these, but perhaps fails to give them their true significance.
▪ Build into the drama periods of reflection; they give significance to the drama itself and to individual contributions.
▪ With hindsight this final point should have been given more significance from the start.
▪ Here just sufficient theory will be given to show the significance of the quantity measured.
grasp
▪ The expert's advantage is in his easy access to the evidence and in his better ability to grasp its significance.
▪ Burty grasped the significance of the photographic Nemesis.
lose
▪ Historically, where there has been a demand for sport, the particulars of participants seem to lose significance.
▪ Rises in base pay are losing their significance.
▪ Within a few months, and certainly in the perspective of historic events, the terms of the Pact lost their significance.
▪ These positions may have lost their significance for people long ago, but once these trees marked the way the world was.
▪ The old fiction that the state is above the parties has lost its significance.
reach
▪ The results of this trial were encouraging, the benefits of the potency reaching statistical significance.
▪ We also found lower concentrations in smokers although this did not reach significance.
▪ These differences, however, did not reach statistical significance.
▪ Although platelet thromboxane generation was elevated in diabetics without clinical evidence of vascular disease, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
▪ However, in neither group did this reach significance.
▪ The difference in motility indices for the total period and the postprandial period did not reach statistical significance.
▪ In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates, though this did not reach significance.
▪ Gastric metaplasia tended to occur less frequently in our patients receiving NSAIDs, but the differences did not reach statistical significance.
understand
▪ However, before approximately 10 months, babies do not understand the significance of an adult's manual pointing.
▪ To understand the significance of that gesture, it is useful to understand something about the nature of Chesapeake Bay.
▪ Do they understand the significance of a certain uniform for instance, or the kind of case a character is carrying?
▪ It will be years before I will understand the significance of these little balloons.
▪ As they devise the measures and control the measuring devices, only they understand the significance of what they do.
▪ Since your officers removed the Black prince from the gallery yesterday, I'd be a fool not to understand the significance.
▪ It is very difficult to understand the significance and meaning of ageing without an appreciation of this crucial factor.
▪ This factor may provide the key to understanding its power and significance in cultural construction.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attach importance/significance etc to sth
▪ And, since he seems to attach importance to the language-game of giving orders and obeying them, let us begin there.
▪ Hence he attaches importance to spending more of the government's research cash in industry as opposed to within the government's own establishments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Freud explained the significance of some of the objects and situations in Anna's dream.
▪ Nothing can be more exciting than the first time you receive red roses. They have special significance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the main significance of Chasidism was its reaction against the intellectualism of some rabbinical traditions.
▪ Chaotic population dynamics has a surprising cross-level effect which has enormous significance for genetic structure and evolution.
▪ Each separation contains symbolic significance, incorporating transitional stages of liminality.
▪ For our purposes, politics is associated with those aspects of life that have public significance.
▪ I hope that the people of Northern Ireland will draw significance from that.
▪ The killings have been dubbed the number 12 murders because of the number's apparent significance to the killer.
▪ Too frequently, managers forget the significance of a group as a source of power and influence on individuals.
▪ Unhappily, the significance of the Service is still largely unrecognized, if Congressional appropriations can be taken as evidence.