If " biweekly " is used in a conversation about a meeting schedule, it may be difficult to infer which meaning was intended.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

The second question is the meaning of the word avita: Gildas could have meant " ancestors ", or intended it to mean more specifically " grandfather " — thus indicating Ambrosius lived about a generation before the Battle of Mons Badonicus.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

These were apotropaic meaning they were intended to ward off evil.

Anointing of the Sick, known also by other names, is distinguished from other forms of religious anointing or " unction " ( an older term with the same meaning ) in that it is intended, as its name indicates, for the benefit of a sick person.

Carl Linnaeus, who named the species in his seminal Systema Naturae of 1758, would have known this and may have intended the ironic double meaning.

The sender's personal filters and the receiver's personal filters may vary depending upon different regional traditions, cultures, or gender ; which may alter the intended meaning of message contents.

CRTs have also been used as memory devices, in which case the visible light emitted from the fluoresecent material ( if any ) is not intended to have significant meaning to a visual observer ( though the visible pattern on the tube face may cryptically represent the stored data ).

Usually it is clear from the context which is the intended meaning.

In order to avoid confusion over which meaning is intended, Rummel created the term democide for the third meaning.

The word " alone " does not appear in the original Greek text, but Luther defended his translation by maintaining that the adverb " alone " was required both by idiomatic German and Paul's intended meaning.

Pseudo-anglicisms are new words formed from English morphemes independently from an analogous English construct and with a different intended meaning.

A minority still stubbornly use the term in both original senses despite the controversy, leaving context to clarify ( or leave ambiguous ) which meaning is intended.

Classical hadith specialist Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani says that the intended meaning of hadith in religious tradition is something attributed to Muhammad but that is not found in the Quran.

" " The intended meaning of ' other sciences ' here are those pertaining to religion ," explains Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, " Quranic exegesis, hadith, and jurisprudence.

Hypnotists who believed that responses are mediated primarily by an " unconscious mind ", like Milton Erickson, made more use of indirect suggestions, such as metaphors or stories, whose intended meaning may be concealed from the subject's conscious mind.

* Inferential ideograms ( 会意字 ) -- the combination of pictograms or pictographic parts to create a new character that pictorially mimicks the intended meaning of the new word, e. g. the character for " love ", which combines the pictograms for " heart " as the radical with the pictogram for " receive "; the character for " sharp ", which combines the pictogram " small " at the top with the pictogram for " big " at the bottom ; or the character for " room ", which combines the pictogram for " household " overarching the pictogram for " square ";

It is sometimes difficult to tell which meaning is intended in a given source.

It is intended to let application developers " write once, run anywhere " ( WORA ), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.

" Majimboism " was a philosophy that emerged in the 1950s, meaning federalism or regionalism in Swahili, and it was intended to protect local rights, especially regarding land ownership.

It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense ( by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time ).

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

His sudden unannounced appearance at the Borden home was strange in that he did not carry an iota of baggage with him, although he clearly intended to stay overnight, if not longer.

Maybe he only intended to scare the blackmailer, whoever he was, in which case an unloaded gun would be good enough.

In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.

The `` hold-back '', as Pentagon mutterers labeled it, apparently was a temporary expedient intended to insure that the army services are built up gradually and, thus, the new funds spent prudently.

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.

This was not a program intended to illustrate authentic folk styles.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.

Up to the time of the revolution the promise was, " to be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom.

First developed in France, Gothic was intended as a solution to the inadequacies of Romanesque architecture.

* Atonement is intended for all: Jesus's death was for all people, Jesus draws all people to himself, and all people have opportunity for salvation through faith.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

It was also intended so that Americans with disabilities would be kept in the mainstream in terms of scientific and medical research and developments, especially opening future opportunities in Space exploration to them, as well as public policy changes, healthcare law and policy changes, and civil rights protections and public law changes for Americans with physical, mental and cognitive disabilities.

It was intended to be a flexible set of laws that could only be strengthened, not weakened, by future case law.

This was intended to give broader protections for disabled workers and " turn back the clock " on court rulings that Congress deemed too restrictive.

It was intended to address some of the problems of the only general-purpose option then available, the plough.

She had intended Newton to become a clergyman, but she died of tuberculosis when he was six years old.

The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.

The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.