noun Download 🔗Share Something serving as an expression of something else. Examples : "The small gifts were tokens of our appreciation for all her hard work. " sign communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A keepsake. Examples : "Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together." culture tradition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services. Examples : "A book token is the easiest option for a Christmas gift." business economy finance value Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (sometimes figurative) Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint. Examples : "The muddy footprints on the floor were clear tokens of the dog's recent trip inside. " sign mark Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion. Examples : "The small number of students attending class this week were discouraging tokens of the course's popularity. " theory philosophy attitude point statement Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power. Examples : "The sudden healing of her blindness was seen by many as one of the tokens of divine intervention. " religion supernatural theology sign Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction. Examples : "The turnstile required special tokens to allow passengers onto the subway. " technology computing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item. Examples : "The jeweler confirmed the diamond's authenticity with several tokens stamped directly onto the certificate and the stone's girdle. " quality item business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith. Examples : "The casino chips served as tokens, representing the cash value each player wagered. " sign politics government right law value asset business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A tally. Examples : "Here are the tokens we collected after each successful task; let's count them to see who has the most. " number statistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A particular thing to which a concept applies. Examples : "In many games, plastic chips are used as tokens to represent money or points. " thing item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing. Examples : "The computer program broke the sentence into individual tokens like "the," "cat," and "sat." " computing language word technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "In the computer lab, only students with tokens can access the high-performance computers, ensuring everyone gets a fair turn. " computing technology system Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data. Examples : "Instead of storing real credit card numbers, the website uses tokens to represent them, protecting customers' financial data. " computing technology internet Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier. Examples : "The programming language compiler breaks down the code into individual tokens, like variable names, operators, and keywords. " grammar language linguistics word Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus. Examples : "In the short story, the word "happy" appears as three separate tokens, even though it's the same word. " linguistics word Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health. Examples : "After a week of fever, the return of her appetite and energy were welcome tokens of her recovery from the flu. " medicine sign body disease condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. Examples : "As the fever raged, the nurse noticed dreadful tokens blooming on the patient's skin, signaling that the end was near. " medicine body sign disease Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The printer delivered two tokens of paper, enough for the entire project. " stationery number writing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Examples : "Each miner placed his tokens on the full coal tubs so the foreman knew who to credit for the work. " material item work industry sign Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance. Examples : "After finding only tokens of coal in the initial dig, the mining team decided to explore deeper, hoping to find the main coal seam nearby. " geology material substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines. Examples : "The signalman handed the driver the tokens to authorize the train's passage onto the single-track section. " technical machine vehicle communication signal system history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use. Examples : "The weaver followed the sequence of colored tokens on the loom to know when to switch between the red and blue shuttles. " technical machine industry material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper. Examples : "Before receiving communion in the old Scottish church, each member was given tokens as proof they were eligible to participate in the Lord's Supper. " religion theology ritual Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To betoken, indicate, portend, designate, denote Examples : "The dark clouds tokened a coming storm, so we rushed inside. " sign language communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To betroth Examples : "The young nobleman tokened his love and intention to marry the farmer's daughter with a beautiful ring. " family tradition culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To symbolize, instantiate Examples : "The graduation ceremony tokens the completion of years of hard work and dedication. " technology computing language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading