If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

If people then experience other cultures that have different values and normal behaviors, they will find that the thought patterns appropriate to their birth culture and the meanings their birth culture attaches to behaviors are not appropriate for the new cultures.

If Language A borrowed a word from Language B, or both borrowed the word from a third language or inherited it from a common ancestor, and later the word shifted in meaning or acquired additional meanings in at least one of these languages, a native speaker of one language will face a false friend when learning the other.

If the two meanings are unrelated, as in the word pen meaning both writing instrument and enclosure, they are considered homonyms.

* From the 1990s, the popular meanings of the word criticism have started to evolve more strongly toward " having an objection ", " expressing dissent ", " stating a dislike ", " wanting to dissociate from something ", or " rejecting something " (" If you liked it, you would not be criticizing it ").

If a sentence's meaning is a function of the meanings of its parts, then parts of the sentence, such as Odysseus, seemingly do have meaning.

If the term is to be used as a symbol of liberty and economic coordination as it has been in the modern era, Kennedy argues that it should exist as a construct completely separate from Adam Smith since there is little evidence that Smith imputed any significance onto the term, much less the meanings given it at present.

" If someone recites the Qur ' an, is it possible that he means other meanings than what you think you understand?

If culture was about things ( a piece of art, a TV series ), it is now more about processes and practices of meanings.

If statements can have meanings, then it would make sense to ask " What does it mean ?".

If they were plural, the first two phrases would have different meanings.

If these meanings are not distinguished, the result may be the following categorical syllogism, which may be seen as a joke ( pun ):

If, however, they were not limited but one were to say that the word has an infinite number of meanings, obviously reasoning would be impossible ; for not to have one meaning is to have no meaning, and if words have no meaning our reasoning with one another, and indeed with ourselves, has been annihilated ; for it is impossible to think of anything if we do not think of one thing ; but if this is possible, one name might be assigned to this thing.

If the overt, surface meaning of a sentence does not seem to be consistent with the Gricean maxims, and yet the circumstances lead us to think that the speaker is nonetheless obeying the cooperative principle, we tend to look for other meanings that could be implied by the sentence.

: If looking for other meanings and uses beyond fish please go to Snook

If we now contextualise the image in a school, seminary, prison, training gym or home environment different sets of meanings emerge depending on the presence or absence of other signifiers demonstrating the relationship between the protagonists, the time the image was created ( a Victorian image of corporal punishment in a school would have a different significance from a more recent image of judicial caning in Britain, Canada or Singapore ), the nature of the activity ( e. g. a boxing training session or a game of tennis in which the blow is struck accidentally, etc.

If a word has multiple meanings, then typically there will be multiple lexical units tied to different frames.

If that is the case, the economic meanings of trade are never completely fixed once and for all.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.

If Joe doesn't show up, we'll all be back here at 0600 hours.

If you walk into the ring because it is fun to show your dog, he will feel it and give you a good performance!!

If ( remember this is an assumption ) the minimal polynomial for T decomposes Af where Af are distinct elements of F, then we shall show that the space V is the direct sum of the null spaces of Af.

If, at any time during the assignment pass, the compiler finds that there are no more index words available for assignment, the warning message `` No More Index Words Available '' will be placed in the object program listing, the table will be altered to show that index words 1 through 96 are available, and the assignment will continue as before.

If the compiler finds that there are no more electronic switches available for assignment, the warning message `` No More Electronic Switches Available '' will be placed in the object program listing, the table will be altered to show that electronic switches 1 through 30 are available, and assignment will continue as before.

`` If you expect her to show up '', she said, `` you'd better put ' and wife ' on there.

If Red had a show at Gloucester, Handley would hurry to hang his pictures in Rockport.

If so, it might be worth while to assign a future jazz show to a different department -- one with enough confidence in the musical material to cut down on the number of performers and give them a little room to display their talents.

If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.

If the first allele is dominant to the second, then the fraction of the population that will show the dominant phenotype is p < sup > 2 </ sup > + 2pq, and the fraction with the recessive phenotype is q < sup > 2 </ sup >.

If the hijackers ' demands are deemed too great and the perpetrators show no inclination to surrender, authorities sometimes employ armed special forces to attempt a rescue of the hostages ( notably Operation Entebbe ).

If the combustion takes place using air as the oxygen source, the nitrogen can be added to the equation, as and although it does not react, to show the composition of the flue gas:

If a group has an involution with a 2-component that is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic, the goal is to show that it has a centralizer of involution in " standard form " meaning that a centralizer of involution has a component that is of Lie type in odd characteristic and also has a centralizer of 2-rank 1.

Diocletian's reply: " If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.

If we have to get the feeling that everything that we do will show up in the newspapers tomorrow, you'll get whitewashed statements.

To show that the claim " If a is a philosopher then a is a scholar " is false, one would show there is some philosopher who is not a scholar.

The memo was sent shortly after Republican pollster Frank Luntz advised Sean Hannity on his Fox show that " If you call it a public option, the American people are split.

In response, the deputy army chief, Antonio Ndjai, said: " If the people continue to go out into the streets to show their support for Carlos Gomes Junior, then I will kill Carlos Gomes Junior ... or I will send someone to kill him.

If they did that, the law requires the injured person to show that the driver owed them a duty of care and breached it.

I must have been there at least 45 minutes when one of the classical musicians said, ' If this guy Arthur Lee doesn't show up soon, I'm leaving.