symbolic
符号性的,符号性,符号,符号化
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Definitions
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- : serving as a symbol of something.
- : of, relating to, or expressed by a symbol.
- : characterized by or involving the use of symbols: a highly symbolic poem.
- : pertaining to a class of words that express only relations.Compare notional.
- : Computers. expressed in characters, usually nonnumeric, that require translation before they can be used.
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Examples
The financial terms were largely symbolic as Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy has put it deeply in debt and its earnings from OxyContin have plunged.
Sadly, Puerto Rico is an island full of symbolic laws, which are usually ignored by law enforcement authorities and have no consequences.
Closing off the Capitol would be an enormous symbolic victory for the insurrectionists.
Wednesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting is symbolic in that the county is essentially opening the floor to new supervisors and the public who have other ideas to reach this target.
Tokyo 2020 will be symbolic to prove that people, all together from across the world, have defeated the virus.
Bridging the divide between the police and those who distrust them will take more than protests and symbolic gestures.
Your death is symbolic of the harsh reality facing so many of us.
Along the way, he accidentally embeds a nail in his foot, which is not symbolic at all.
But the amendment was non-binding -- and thus largely symbolic.
She lost that claim long ago, but her symbolic importance has only grown.
In like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.