Significats de give tangibility en anglès

It gave tangibility to the intangible, indeed, but I can not see that our situation was any better.

But Humboldt's isothermal lines for the first time gave tangibility to these ideas, and made practicable a truly scientific study of comparative climatology.

His confidant Peacock suggested, from his stage experience, the outlines of a plot, to which Vivian's astuter intellect instantly gave tangibility and coloring.