The meaning of 'MEANING'

What is meaning?

Consider this sentence - A gave a ball to B.

Now, one thing that immediately comes to mind (commonsense inference) is that A gave the ball with his hands and they pointing towards B.

Another inference one can draw from this is that - the ball was first in A's hands and then in B's hands. Now this inference is not "reversible" i.e. the ball being in A's hands first and then in B's hands doesnt necessarily imply that A GAVE the ball to B. But the commonsense inference is reversible i.e. A transferring something with his hands and they pointing towards B implies the original statement - amounts to A giving it to B. 

Commonsense inferences are REVERSIBLE; inferences in general could be REVERSIBLE or IRREVERSIBLE.

Perhaps, from the above, commonsense inferences can be called MEANING, and the rest as just INFERENCES. Or in other words we could define meaning as 'COMMONSENSE INFERENCE'.