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Meanings of symbolical in English
Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract.
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Examples for "signal"
Examples for "signal"
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Higher oil prices signal to oil companies the need for greater investment.
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We need a very clear strong political signal at the highest level.
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Please signal 'all clear' by setting runway approach lights to strobe mode.
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However, the signal that was given was not exactly one to attack.
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Higher oil prices also signal to consumers the need to demand less.
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In certain circumstances, internalized receptors are able to continue signaling after endocytosis.
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Credit derivatives began signaling distress for banks earlier this week as well.
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However, much remains unknown about the intracellular signaling pathways regulating neutrophil activity.
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However, signaling pathways associated with this aberrant immune response are not clarified.
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Moreover, HIF1a signaling appears to play an important role in this process.
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The result is symbolic but could have international implications, the BBC reports.
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Particular symbolic traditions have evolved as certain forms have become regularly employed.
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Writer-producer Tom Fontana said the international support was an important symbolic gesture.
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Many factors contributed to its current weak and largely symbolic political position.
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But it could be symbolic because federal law typically supersedes state laws.
Usage of symbolical in English
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The stopping of the carriage seemed to him, in a sense, symbolical.
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The blind woman seemed strangely symbolical and the parish, the priest too.
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All is symbolical in this composition, of which the sentiment is sublime.
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All of these symbolical ideas might have been taken from that figure.
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But doubtless they have not the same symbolical value for the English.
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The texts of the Holy Books are all symbolical, needing authoritative interpretation.
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There are certain symbolical marks on the bottles, well known to connoisseurs.
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He is symbolical of everything that a boastful Germany can pretend to.
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This act was symbolical of his giving to her his worldly goods.
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The aspen, from its tremulous motion, has been made symbolical of fear.
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There's a camel in a frieze by Arthur Crisp, but not symbolical.
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The symbolical meaning of each god disappears in his personal character.
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He is introspective in his thinking and symbolical in his writing.
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The terms reach out beyond the literal to the symbolical purification.
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The hook-pattern seems to be symbolical of conjunction and acquisition in various spheres.
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The snow seemed to be symbolical, walling them in from all the world.
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