All 9 Uses of
uniform
in
1984, by Orwell
- He went back to the table, dipped his pen, and wrote: To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
p. 28.1uniformity = everyone being the same
- The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.
p. 206.2 *uniformity = consistency (being the same)
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.†
p. 2.4uniform = clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification
- Both of them were dressed in the blue shorts, grey shirts, and red neckerchiefs which were the uniform of the Spies.†
p. 23.1 *
- Nearly everyone was ugly, and would still have been ugly even if dressed otherwise than in the uniform blue overalls.†
p. 60.2
- This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it.†
p. 73.1
- As they drifted down the crowded pavements, not quite abreast and never looking at one another, they carried on a curious, intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse, suddenly nipped into silence by the approach of a Party uniform or the proximity of a telescreen, then taken up again minutes later in the middle of a sentence, then abruptly cut short as they parted at the agreed spot, then continued almost without introduction on the following day.†
p. 128.5
- The square was packed with several thousand people, including a block of about a thousand schoolchildren in the uniform of the Spies.†
p. 180.7
- It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason.†
p. 216.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(uniform as in: uniform consistency) consistent (the same in some way)
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) more commonly, uniform refers to clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification. For example, an army uniform.