Meaning of token | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something serving as an expression of something else.
2. A keepsake.
3. To betoken or symbolize; portend.
4. A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
5. In like manner; similarly.
6. A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
7. As an indication of: a ring given in token of love.
8. A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
9. Something serving as an indication, proof, or expression of something else; a sign: "His lifelong refusal to allow bigots to truly bother him was often considered, unfairly, a token of his weakness" (Jeremy Schaap).
10. A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
11. A person who is considered as representative of a social group, such as a lone individual or one of a small number of employees hired primarily to prevent an employer from being accused of discrimination.
12. Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.
    figuratively, obsolete, sometimes
13. A keepsake or souvenir.
14. Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
15. A piece of stamped metal used as a substitute for currency: subway tokens.
16. An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
17. Computers a. A small electronic device issued to a user to serve as proof of identity, as for the purpose of accessing a network.
    Computers
18. An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
19. Done as an indication or pledge: a token payment.
20. A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
21. Perfunctory; minimal: a token gesture of reconciliation; token resistance.
22. Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
23. A tally.
24. A particular thing to which a concept applies.
25. An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
26. A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
27. A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
28. A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
29. A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
30. A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
31. A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.
    obsolete
32. Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
33. A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
34. A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
35. A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
36. In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
37. A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Equivalents

Examples

“According to the Bible, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant with Noah.”

“Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together.”

“Subway tokens are being replaced by magnetic cards.”

“A book token is the easiest option for a Christmas gift.”

“Everyone pick a token (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.”

“His apology was no more than a token.”

“New York Philharmonic has a token of one Negro. The Pittsburgh Symphony ranks high with three tokens. Cleveland has one, and other major symphony orchestras such as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago still say, "Get back!"”

“Five women were tokens on both counts. Comparing racial tokens to nontokens, tokens reported significantly less favorable interpersonal interactions with their White male colleagues.”

“They were tokens, however: the majority of oppressed people will not experience these benefits. Tokens were used to pacify the masses and provide the mirage that racism was no longer a factor”

“Women and racial minorities (e.g., blacks, Hispanics, Asians) often are tokens in organizations or in organizational groups (e.g., departments, boards of directors, management).”

“Say, by this token, I desire his company.”

“And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.”

“For each lexeme, the scanner creates a small data package known as a token and passes this data package on to the parser.”

“However, note the token ontology, ranked the 15ᵗʰ most frequent token in our ontology corpus, occurs 1940 times out of 336,311 tokens, but ontology only occurs 52 times in the BNC – the ratio of two relative frequencies is 10895.”

“Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere fore-runners of their ends.”

“But the coal-owner refuses to pay for a corf or tub simply on the ground that it contains too little weight, or that it contains “softs” instead of all “hards,”—a refusal technically known by its symbol as “hanging the motties," or by a bolder metaphor as “hanging the hutches,”—the “motties,” or tokens peculliar to the collier who sends up the corf. being hung up, if satisfactory, on the proper “motty-board peg,” if not so, on the “death-board peg;” and it is asserted that “at some collieries as many as 60 or 70 each day, worth to the collier from 6d. to 8. each, are taken from them in this manner.””

“But worse still was the practice of defrauding them of their earnings, for as their “tokens” were put on to the outside of the tubs it often happened that hundreds were taken off and thrown away; so that they often found, to their exceeding chagrin, when they came to bank, that after having put up with all the abuse and ill-treatment in the mine they had got little or nothing for working all day.”

“The “token” is simply a small piece of leather with a given number upon it, and as the colliers work in pairs--not at the same time, but in succession, the one man taking the “fore shift,” the other the “back shift,”—each pair has a specific number, and round the “token” cabin are ranged hooks also numbered to correspond with the tokens the colliers take down with them into the mine; every tub laden with coal that comes to bank has in it one of these “tokens,” and the business of token-keeper is to secure these and lodge them upon their corresponding hooks, so that at the end of each shift, or day of labour, the colliers knows how many tubs he has sent “to bank”.”

“Although splitting a single-line section into two might seem a simple solution, Williams adds that creating another location where drivers have to get out of the cab and walk to a cabinet to exchange tokens before a train can proceed will further slow down the service: "There must be a better option in the 21st century than putting in an additional token machine."”

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