Entertainment / Literature / Token: Nathaniel Hawthorne's term for a private symbol. He also refers to private symbols as emblems. Examples include the blasted trees and brown-grass in 'The Hollow of the Three Hills' or the walking stick carried by the old man and the pink ribbon belonging to Faith in 'Young Goodman Brown.'
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Token Verb Synonyms: coin, disc
Token Adjective Synonyms: symbolic, emblematic, representative
Token Noun Synonyms: symbol, sign, mark, marker, badge, emblem, indication, proof, evidence
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Science / Psychiatry / Token Economy: A system involving the application of the principles and procedures of operant conditioning to the management of a social setting such as a ward, classroom, or halfway house. Tokens are given continge MORE
Technology / Computers / Token Ring: A type of LAN in which workstations relay a data packet called a token in a logical ring configuration - known as token passing. A station may only transmit if it is in possession of the token. Token MORE
Business / Real Estate / Nominal Damages: Monetary damages of a token amount awarded for a wrongful act where no loss occurred. MORE
Entertainment / Video Games / Arcade: Games described as being 'arcade style' or being of the genre known broadly as 'arcade games' fall into two basic groups. The first are games with their origins in amusement arcades, such as classics MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Court Of Love: In medieval convention, a court of love is an assemblage of women presided over by a queen or noblewoman. At this mock-court, various young knights or courtiers are summoned to court and put on 'trial MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Private Symbol: In contrast with an archetype (universal symbol), a private symbol is one that an individual artist arbitrarily assigns a personal meaning to. Nearly all members of an ethnic, religious, or linguistic MORE