n. a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm"

n. the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning of this proverb?"

n. a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

n. a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"

n. the intended meaning of a communication

n. the adult male singing voice above baritone

n. an adult male with a tenor voice

n. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

n. a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"

n. grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

n. knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception"

n. the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

n. (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer; "in object-oriented programming, objects include data and define its status, its methods of operation and how it interacts with other objects"

n. some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"

n. something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"

n. the pervading meaning or tenor; "caught the general drift of the conversation"

n. an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

n. the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means"

n. the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); "the sole object of her trip was to see her children"

n. (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal; "his intentions are entirely honorable"

n. a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun"

n. the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous"

n. information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome"

n. informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone; "it was news to me"

n. what a communication that is about something is about