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How to use meanings in a sentence

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In some ways the collection's diversity is its strength, demonstrating the multifarious meanings and reaches of the medium.
Learn how to use verbal irony by crafting dialogue that could have multiple meanings.
A heterotroph has a range of meanings in biology: An organism which requires complex external sources for nutrition.
We often find that longer words convey subtler and more finely nuanced meanings.
The colours each had several meanings, some of which were abstract ideas, some concrete as in the cattle and sheep example.
As I drove past it yesterday I allowed my imagination to range over possible meanings.
Both reflect the traditional meanings of acciaccatura and appogiatura, and both insert insert a slur from the first grace note to the main note.
The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
Elliot said in a lecture in 1956 that he was sorry he sent so many people off on a wild goose chase for meanings that were not there.
It is a poignant passage that will stand the test of time and key you into meanings of shadow and redemption.
These expressions literally encode language with hidden, subversive meanings, enacting linguistically the larger thematic focus of the novel.
In late eighteenth and nineteenth century Bengal, the worship of Durga acquired meanings other than devotion as well.
You dont have to reject the representation, you have to reimagine it, question its meanings.
Equality requires a common yardstick, or measure of judgement, not a plurality of meanings.
Places carry meanings and are coded with narrative significances, and these built-in values are useful to writers.
Others are more enigmatic and ambiguous in both their origins and meanings.
An amphiboly occurs when the construction of a sentence allows it to have two different meanings.
Although Paul Jenkins has retired from his post as archivist, that does not mean that he will stop researching the meanings of photographs.
After sifting through a mountain of words, the author has settled on 1,500 meanings that reflect the ever-changing world of lexicography.
He retained archaic word choices and used footnotes to explain the meanings of those words.
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For it, he drew on Renaissance technical terms, derivations, compounds, archaisms, polysemy, etymological meanings, and idioms.
It seems that both constructions are compatible with the different aspectual meanings, but to different degrees.
In regard to its meanings, it indicates lowness, coarseness, or commonplace mentality.
I chose to purchase my yellow wristband because I attribute meanings to it and find connections between the wristband and my personal beliefs.
She also investigates the avant-garde's motives in embracing black culture and proffers reasons and meanings for its interest.
I have become as attuned to the semiotic meanings of Danforth vs. Riverdale as a Manhattanite is to the subtleties of Upper and Lower East Sides.
These meanings typically have to do with temporalor logical relations between the events described in the clauses.
Field notes and memos that explored tentative meanings from the data enhanced conclusion drawing.
Some words are spelled the same as or very close to other words with different meanings.
No one could predict them or perhaps even properly understand their meanings.
These picture puzzles depended, like puns, on the assonance of words that have different meanings.
Possible meanings of words contribute to the meaning of an utterance, which is an act by a speaker.
Perhaps even more ironic was our conversation about names and their meanings.
Erik faced his friend and scrutinized him for hidden meanings behind his words.
The average reader does not need a glossary for the meanings of all such words, for they are clearly elicited in the context.
He was an intensely charismatic actor and conveyed the meanings of words as dramatically and sensitively as the music.
He thinks about the way one word can have two completely different meanings.
On first reading one may not understand all the meanings within a poem, but one can appreciate its rhythms and imagery.
There were many meanings in his words, and all of them made me second guess the truths I had known all my life.
There are a lot of hidden meanings in this work, which other artists don't have.
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What do we lose by focusing on the detail rather than discerning the underlying patterns and meanings?
He was a melodramatist, infusing all those silly melodramas with style, with signs and meanings.
Both meanings are relevant to that great universal event of the revelation of the Quran and the assigning of the message to the Prophet.
Mr Browne submits that the first two of these meanings are severable and distinct.
To get an insight into the kinds of meanings attached to animals, birds, etc. in medieval times your best bet will be a bestiary.
Consequently, what individuals need is a new language that can express and generate transcendent meanings.
The book includes literal English translations of idioms, but behind them are idiomatic meanings.
Just transpose the language into a different context and we're hearing a whole new set of meanings.
In the final analysis, upon developing a bicultural personality, they operate with and beyond cultural meanings with a sense of being worthwhile.
By dinner time I've memorized the themes and meanings of the names of all the minor prophets, as well as significant scriptures in each.
Particular combinations in threes of the unbroken yang line and the broken yin line form symbolic trigrams that have particular meanings.
Note that when we talk of the functioning of the triunities, these meanings imply the realization of purpose and hence of value.
This up-to-date reference book lays out and explains the meanings of allusions in use in modern English language.
The class discusses the ways tukutuku are presented and how they convey their meanings.
This statement could have at least two possible meanings, both of which exonerate the speaker of any blame.
Last nights circle was based on runes and sigils, learning their meanings and making our own runes.
The same words can take on different meanings and significance depending on who uses them in a particular context.
Is there any other short word so charged with a multiplicity of meanings and significations, so many disparate elements?
All that does is play into their strategy of twisting words and meanings until nothing means what it says any more.
On the local and national front, we have another effort at twisting meanings and twisting history.
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For example, the model has already been used to examine how the meanings of morphemically complex words are accessed during reading.
One of the unique features of the Sinitic languages is the quality of sound used to designate differences in meanings between words or syllables.
Freud used dreams to plumb the depths of the unconscious for hidden meanings and emotions.
It's a Humpty-Dumpty word, with many different meanings, often undefined by the user.
Poetry in particular moves at a slant or tangent, taking advantage of the ambiguity of words, the various meanings to be found in them.
Here, too, was a place where I could freely speculate about Mary's album's complex meanings, unencumbered by the burden of historical proof.
Public health action takes place on a terrain of contested meanings and unequal power, where different knowledges struggle for control.
However, once you start dwelling on exact and exhaustive definitions you inevitably go down a slippery slide of uncertain meanings.
They represented deities, mythical creatures, imaginary beasts, and recognizable fauna imbued with symbolic meanings.
So pure and yet teeming with cultural meanings, white is at the same time unobtrusive and attention getting.
Taste for those who ate Djebo's sauce was about ingesting an unpalatable food and the social meanings or consequences that this act involved.
Ashbery's lines are often pure poetry, shimmering with unsaid meanings even in their dependence upon the easy phrases of ordinary speech.
Any attempt at explaining higher meanings to be derived from Judo is bound for failure.
In other words, the dream is a code to be decoded, a scrambled line to be unscrambled, so that its images can be reduced to their basic meanings.
As Parker points out, the meanings of these words for other purposes were unsettled and changing in this period.
Scripts are cryptic and are often hard to read due to the many special characters that have unique meanings within the language.
Depending on the sect of Buddhism, the word bodhisattva has essentially two meanings.
I realise that these days, computers have spellchecks, which often cannot differentiate between meanings of words.
An oblique stroke or virgule is a symbol used in differing circumstances to create different meanings.
Each was a spiritualist, and each comprehended meanings in realms of apprehension different from the physical world.
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Gyre and gimble are nonsense words, made up by Lewis Carroll, and which do not have conventionalized meanings in the language.
When the snow finally melts, spring fever will take on many meanings in Calgary.
His boss can take even a hackneyed phrase and let it dangle suggestively in the air until a dozen meanings reveal themselves.
Besides, even when the new meanings of existing words were calqued on cognate words in other languages.
It is important to remember that the observational data do not communicate consumer thoughts and meanings.
Behaviours that observationally look very similar have different meanings for different children.
The meanings shuffle across many levels, some streaking away beyond vision, leaving tantalising traces of ominousness.
These meanings are based on the traditional interpretations used by cartomancers for centuries.
According to operationalism, STR changes the meanings of the concepts of space and time from the classical conception.
There may also be much variation in sexual behavior and meanings within similar socioeconomic strata.
However, there's a general pattern in English of pairs of inchoative and causative meanings for verbs.
His compositions resist clearly defined boundaries, stable centers of gravity and distinct focal points, not to mention restrictive meanings.
The meanings of the hexagrams were divined many years ago by Chinese philosopher-priests in tune with the Tao.
All languages are human creations, not sent down from on high, and the words we invent change their meanings over hundreds of years.
But Chinese characters represent the different meanings of these words, rather than the sounds, which are the same.
The learned meanings are present in the subtext, which is understood only by the initiated audiences.
Undoubtedly the charnel features had many other meanings to the people who used them, ones that leave no archaeologically identifiable traces.
The basic structure of Euskara uses agglutination, or the practice of adding prefixes or suffixes to words to create different meanings.
Those Romans had a word for everything and the meanings carried social, emotional and political overtones often as not.
Similarly, laws with distinctly racial overtones may have also had gendered meanings.
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It's certainly not a compound, and I can't imagine what two meanings might be evoked by this word in order to produce the intended effect.
Society is compounded of all kinds of interests and meanings involved with social action.
It is likely that at some point in time humans spoke a protolanguage in which most words had neither holophrastic nor atomic meanings.
Much of the chatter derives from the abundance of homonyms in Chinese, where a single sound can carry many meanings.
We always seem to be digging through the layers of Taaffe's paintings for new meanings, here evidenced by a new looseness and painterliness.
In part because the meanings of a Beethoven symphony can't be paraphrased into words, one can make purely personal, emotional use of the music.
Such complexity of meanings appealed marvelously to learned patrons and artists of the cinquecento.
Color experts discuss the appeal of color and different meanings behind hues, tones and shades.
If at one point the terms were synonymous their meanings have gradually diverged.
These include word identification, syntactic parsing, and semantic composition of word meanings.
Explicit, universal meanings are critical if paleontology is to play a central role in systematics and evolutionary biology.
These apply to the political and personal meanings that associate power with the nature of men and the culture of patriarchy.
Some pictographs were used as ideographs because they have different semantic meanings.
Kanji characters, on the other hand, are ideographic, and often have several pronunciations and multiple meanings.
Metaphorical images are so effective due to the social and natural contexts in which we acquire or learn their meanings.
This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation.
Phonaesthesia occurs when certain sounds become associated with certain meanings, even though they do not attempt to imitate the sound.
As a result, we seem to traffic in such meanings even when we seek to contest them.
He is now inconsolable and finds deeper meanings in the fact that he has chosen both finance and marketing courses.
In this sense, meanings control us, inculcate obedience to the discipline inscribed in them.
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As regards its meanings, it is somewhat undefined and has some amount of indistinctness.
Every sentence was then individually examined for possible meanings and implications.
Words often have several different meanings and we can tell which meaning is intended only by seeing how the word is used.
In spite of the negative connotations contained in the word there are good meanings that should be pondered.
In this view of interpretation as construction, the text itself serves as the boundaries around possible meanings.
Social constructionism deals with ambiguity, contradiction, and multiple meanings.
The internal rhyme of issue and tissue, and their complex play of meanings make clear this fusion of flesh and fabric.
In this study, the meanings women attached to food differed depending on where they were on the recovery continuum.
Using a contronym requires the listener's knowing which of its meanings applies.
In the special case of contronyms, the polysemous terms contain two opposite meanings.
He avoids the expected closure, letting the deeper meanings stay intriguingly open-ended.
It is claimed that the diversity of social movements is necessitated by the plurality of experiences and meanings in contemporary society.
Unlike Polari, a large proportion of Gayle is based around ascribing different meanings to women's names.
There is no reason why good polemical writing cannot be considered expository in the literal meanings of both words.
In fact, the poet depends on the irreducibility of such cognitively significant meanings in order for him to be creative.
Its possible meanings are many, complex, and like all great poetry, irreducible to simple generalizations.
This makes me wonder whether people choose their political beliefs for their cultural meanings too.
What matters is their interpretability, the meanings they attract, their fluctuant interpretive magnetism.
All other futharks are a variation of these, and use the same basic symbols and meanings.
The outcome is not predetermined but reflects a political contest over the exercise of power and meanings.
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To enhance our exemplar words and generate sentences to illustrate word meanings, we enlisted the support of the other participating teachers.
The machine processable meanings of the nodes are constituted by the patterns of arcs between them.
The poems themselves act as fissures in the surface of consumerism, defamiliarizing cultural meanings.
I could never keep straight the prophetic meanings found in the Books of Daniel and Revelation.
According to Frege, while definitions should give the meanings and fix the denotations of terms, axioms should express truths.
Instead, each of us is to use the denotative and connotative meanings of these terms with which we are most comfortable.
In this stage a determinative, especially a semantic determinative, is added to a graph to classify the meanings among the words.
As with an ancient ritual, the meanings of this game cannot be fully grasped.
Social hierarchy cannot and does not exist without being embodied in meanings and expressed in communications.
Therefore, an ontological model can effectively disambiguate meanings of words from free text sentences.
It seems more sensible to disembody it and focus attention on meanings and the codes producing them.
It was a film where no room was left for the viewer to interpret their own meanings, in distinct contrast to the novel.
As I studied the divinatory meanings, I looked at the image of the card, and associated it with a culture.
Deep, hidden or esoteric meanings of the text are rejected in favour of its plain meaning.
They believed also in esoteric meanings accessible only to the powerful elite, as opposed to exoteric doctrine suitable for the masses.
Through an analysis of ethnographically collected data, the meanings participants constructed around their experiences were explored.
Instead, she would like to see ethnological museums acknowledge these objects' power to enchant, to inspire people to search for meanings.
In times of crisis and press censorship, resistance movements relied on songs or fiction with double meanings to circulate rebel messages.
He controls his rhetoric to the point that there is absolutely no space for double meanings or misunderstandings.
When words have double meanings or change in meaning over time, it's no wonder there is such confusion.
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Etymologically speaking, a doublet is a pair of words that have the same origin but different spellings and often different meanings.
He possessed an artist's intuition and a fluency with articulate meanings.
And like many pivotal historical events, it has, over time, acquired a number of meanings.
In 1324 idiots and lunatics had different rights in law, but now these words have lost their more precise meanings and become little more than insults.
It is further important to ascertain if infidelities are same-sex or opposite-sex relationships, as this might influence meanings of infidelity in relationships.
According to the most common definition, idioms are linguistic expressions whose overall meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent parts.
Here are but a few of the meanings from the language of flowers and herbs.
As the author has argued in his consideration of the Souillac trumeau, such monstrous mouths could evoke a multiplicity of meanings for the monastic audience.
Instead, the acoustics of musical space is, in itself, an alterable element of the representational system within which musical meanings are constructed.
This word connotes a single letter or a word and also compound meanings.
He could mimic printed text with alarming accuracy and dissociate the shapes and lines from their inherent meanings.
To say that a number of constituted meanings are compossible is to say no more than that a transcendental subject has in fact succeeded in constituting them.
Karnad also invents a frame story to exaggerate the literary themes and meanings in the central episode, and it is this frame that gives the play its name.
Surely we can imagine other meanings and contexts for these words.
Many of us didn't understand their meanings, but sang them all the same.
These meanings attract powerful emotions and can affect the patient's clinical condition and become inseparable from the individual's life history.
From connoisseurs to iconographers to social historians, the quest for clarity within the shadowy realms of origins, meanings, contexts has long been of compulsive importance.
We tend to take in static works quickly and process the information slowly letting the sequences of a show play out, the connective meanings and conjunctions emerging later.
It would be as if a person simply made up new words or special meanings for words then recorded facts based on them, but then kept no record of that special nomenclature.
The contemporary experience of living and acting across cultural borders means both the loss of traditional meanings and the creation of new symbolic expressions.
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Because human rights concepts tend to be very elastic and open-ended, they are capable of being given a wide range of meanings, including inconsistent meanings.
The immediate references add multiply meanings, simultaneous multiple meanings to the poem, charge it up with a passional immediacy that an abstract structure cannot maintain.
The key lies in the fact that the units of meaning, words, can be strung together in different ways, according to rules, to communicate different meanings.
This paper explores how multivocal appeals, meaning appeals that have distinct meanings to different audiences, work with respect to religious language.
It is full of legal formulas whose meanings are now obscure.
He prefers to sing in a blurry mumble, letting his meanings emerge in the scuffed and yearning tone of his voice as much as in the words themselves.
As he later puts it, the study of categories is a study of essences, based in essential insights about the types of meanings and correlative types of things.
Water assumes its traditional meanings of death, resurrection and renewal.
But is it not the case that literature supersedes history, as one of the ultimate signifiers in a universe literate in necessary layers of meanings?
Slowly, I begin to pick up a few words and try to memorize their meanings.
Religion in Berger's view, it will be recalled, takes humanly constructed meanings and significations and objectifies them, giving them an aura of facticity.
It has a multiplicity of meanings, as I hope has become clear.
By having the respondents place activities on a scale of acceptability or tolerance, we sidestep the problem of prescriptively defining the meanings of key concepts.
Homographic puns make use of multiple meanings from a single spelling.
Such an interpreter would attribute beliefs to others and assign meanings to their utterances, but would nevertheless do so on the basis of his own, true, beliefs.
Together look up the derivation, the connotation, any prefixes and suffixes for the word, the root, the spelling rules that apply and the various meanings.
This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
As time passes, what is new becomes old, and meanings change.
Like any other comparable dictionary worth its name, it does contain words, pronunciations, parts of speech, meanings and examples, which form the core of the volume.
The most basic and important concept the two writers share is the notion of literature as mystery, as multilevelled expression with hidden meanings.
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Unfortunately, discussion of these issues is often clouded by misunderstanding and prejudice and terms like federal are used emotively and with conflicting meanings.
He uses puns, paradoxes, antitheses, parallels, and various rhetorical and literary devices to construct expressions that have meanings beyond the obvious.
Stones and colored objects are chosen for their occult and astrological meanings corresponding to the purpose for which the gris-gris is to be used.
What remains in the Waning West is a poignant landscape rich in local meanings, a reminder of a past that never quite produced sustained material abundance.
Of the various types of ceremonial trumpet signal, for example, sennet and tucket emerge with precise meanings, but flourish seems at times a more generalized term.
The celebration was a multilayered borderland where performance, art, and architecture expressed messages whose meanings differed depending upon the observer's position.
Similarly, Protestant hymnody used in various missionary contexts has undergone transformations in which new meanings yielded the power to indigenize and resist.
A curious fact about adjectives and the way they modify nominals is that very often predicative uses have a more limited range of meanings than the attributive uses.
Kids who have never been in an art museum before are riveted by the experience, lingering far longer than adults as they puzzle out the meanings of a single work.
But what this show proves is that, even at his most automotive, chamberlain achieved a surprising range of effects and meanings.
Though we need not see as she does to appreciate her stories, understanding the vision that informs them is essential to apprehending their deeper meanings.
Leonardo's mural, with its tracings and smaller copies, is a locus of essential religious and aesthetic meanings, a virtual communion between art and life.
A traffic sign, on the street, does not have multiple meanings.
Housman's strict textual criticism of ancient works contrasted the fanciful approach of his colleagues, who would read in whatever meanings suited them.
Vocals feature more frequently, too, though more for their harmonic qualities and instrumental timbre than for any literal meanings they might convey.
Artists will not reveal sacred meanings of designs to the uninitiated.
The origins and meanings of such customs as a horseshoe symbolising good luck, or a farmer spitting in his hand when selling an animal, are explained at the Celtic Furrow.
As miniatures of human bodies, dolls have had many meanings.
The differences in words and meanings of words between British English and American English are a constant source of interest and amusement to me.
The question is, how can the protagonist break through this selectivity, this view that already-defined meanings are univocally fixed to signifiers?
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The costumes and colors of the dollies were traditional and bore meanings related to Espiritismo and Santeria.
Rich flavors now forgotten, Words mispronounced, their meanings have forever Been drained to dry arcana, milkless utters.
LinguaSys' unique Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine breaks down text to concepts and meanings.
In the verdant sleaziness of an upscale titty bar, rituals bleed their meanings as lives intersect and then collide.
The philologians have all accepted with an excess of good faith the view that vulgar languages meanings were fixed by convention.
This thesis deals with phonology, morphology, syntax and the meanings related to the syntactic structures.
In today's world, the need for properly understanding the true meanings of Qur'an has increased multifold.
New book Spilling The Beans On The Cat's Pyjamas reveals the origins and meanings of some of the most popular and obscure sayings we use today.
His favourite method of speaking was a form of spoonerisms all of his own and he could twist most sentences into the daftest of meanings.
His purpose is to unearth what he calls a polytype text, a text that is scriptible, writerly, open to the play of meanings.
That means that for some students, access to word meanings is slow and effortful.
On the one side, historicists believe that meanings and practices are products of contingent language-use and activity.
In contemporary criticism, culture is considered as a web of meanings that are emblemized in humanly constructed or assigned symbols.
Homographs are words with different derivations, meanings, or pronunciations, but that have the same spelling.
Unlike allegory, whose deeper meanings are partially submerged under a veil or transenna, irony hides in plain sight.
Note, however, that the transitive verbs with these meanings are never used in their literal sense to refer to directed motion.
This is because changing conditions over time alter the contexts that socially enframe meanings and values.
For example, the word codependent has a variety of different meanings to different people.
It is the sphere of production of meanings and ideas we find cogitative, normative foundations of this process.
The entailments mentioned are those meanings which are necessarily carried over from our rich knowledge of the source domains.
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Supermarina protected the security of its own communications by using prearranged hidden meanings for uncoded messages.
The simplified Chinese is a further evolution over the traditional Chinese, and is therefore less preservatory of the original meanings.
In short couplets, Ferdowsi has places high content with many meanings, and places the exact epical, intellectual and moral thoughts.
All agree on the need for multiple viewings of the film, its multifoliate meanings, and its role as a meditative spectacle.
But I'm not sure they have any investment in which meanings they produce.
French words that look like English words but with different meanings in the two languages are called faux amis.
Levi-Strauss says, there always remains an inexpungible residue of signifiers to which we can never give adequate meanings.
English grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the English language.
Different boycotters will ascribe different meanings to the same act.
Of course, in an academic art school which has embraced expressionism, it also holds many meanings.
Because autology doesn't genuinely apply to meanings, it cannot function in the intensional treatment of words.
Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.
We have already noted that compounds tend to have meanings that are not entirely compositional and would therefore need to be listed.
Third, we may do well to put history of religion on the back-burner and focus for a while on the meanings of our texts.
We understand the foodscape as a dynamic social construction that relates food to places, people, meanings, and material processes.
Heteronymies, or propositions false in S by virtue of the meanings of the terms entering in them.
This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound.
Therefore, it shows definitions in the order that the sense of the word began being used, including word meanings which are no longer used.
Furthermore, the meanings of many words have been changed and new vocabularies have been introduced from the vernacular.
However, geopolitically, the word has several different meanings, reflecting the specific geopolitical interests of each nation.
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Insulae have been the subject of great debate for historians of Roman culture, defining the various meanings of the word.
On the other hand, the only processes that could directly give a sentence new meanings would not give its components new meanings.
The purpose of DBIs is to undermine the positive brand meanings the brand owners are trying to instill through their marketing activities.
Each was imbued with meanings and acted as a symbol which would have been understood at the time.
God is called Ishvara, Bhagavan, Parameshwara, Deva or Devi, and these terms have different meanings in different schools of Hinduism.
The French terminology is tied closely to the original meanings of the terms.
The word bugaboo, with a similar pair of meanings, may have arisen as an alteration of bugbear.
The manifold meanings of the simple English word 'set' are infamous among dictionary makers.
For example, mass and weight overlap in meaning in common discourse, but have distinct meanings in mechanics.
Annotated versions provide insights into many of the ideas and hidden meanings that are prevalent in these books.
The wall paintings done in the service of the Pharaohs followed a rigid code of visual rules and meanings.
The vast majority of Modern Greek vocabulary is directly inherited from Ancient Greek, but in some cases, words have changed meanings.
Among archaeologists, the term landscape can refer to the meanings and alterations people mark onto their surroundings.
This principle states that the meaning of a whole should be constructed from the meanings of the parts that make up the whole.
In other words, one should be in a position to understand the whole if one understands the meanings of each of the parts that make up the whole.
Another category of idioms is a word having several meanings, sometimes simultaneously, sometimes discerned from the context of its usage.
The terms Southeast Asia and Oceania, devised in the 19th century, have had several vastly different geographic meanings since their inception.
Tennyson's use of the musical qualities of words to emphasise his rhythms and meanings is sensitive.
All languages rely on the process of semiosis to relate signs to particular meanings.
The study of the process of semiosis, how signs and meanings are combined, used, and interpreted is called semiotics.
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These languages are called fusional languages, because several meanings may be fused into a single morpheme.
Signs also change their meanings over time, as the conventions governing their usage gradually change.
The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group.
That the name appears in two forms with two meanings makes it difficult to determine the literal meaning.
From culture to culture, the variance of the term may have different meanings.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines five meanings of the noun barbarian, including an obsolete Barbary usage.
Chinese polysyllabism is a sort of synthesis, or aggregation, or 'addition' of morphemes and their meanings.
The meanings of the motifs may be categorised into aesthetics, ethics, human relations, and concepts.
There are many different symbols with distinct meanings, often linked with proverbs.
A single preposition may have a variety of meanings, often including temporal, spatial and abstract.
The following table gives some examples of directional suffixes and their possible meanings.
There are derivational suffixes for verbs, which carry frequentative, momentane, causative, and inchoative aspect meanings.
This example below shows these two imperfective aspect markers giving different meanings to similar sentences.
Some languages express or can express these different meanings using different constructions.
Cognates within a single language, or doublets, may have meanings that are slightly or even totally different.
There are also word forms that occur in Standard English but which have additional meanings in some of the varieties considered here.
There are distinctive features of accent, grammar, words and meanings, as well as language use.
In addition, a number of words in Australian English have different meanings from those ascribed in other varieties of English.
It is sometimes colloquially referred to as Ebonics, a term that is avoided by linguists because of its other meanings and connotations.
This illustrates how case marking is not only a system to be followed, but one that can be used creatively to encode particular social meanings.

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