A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

It was the only meaning of the word that he had ever known.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

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.

The meaning of the word is quite physical, to begin with.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The lexical ambiguity of a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the language to which the word belongs.

Lexical ambiguity can be addressed by algorithmic methods that automatically associate the appropriate meaning with a word in context, a task referred to as word sense disambiguation.

Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept has an inherently diffuse meaning based on widespread or informal usage.

The word adobe has existed for around 4, 000 years, with relatively little change in either pronunciation or meaning.

offer an informal meaning of the word in the following quotation:

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

One of them is that it gives meaning and purpose to life.

The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.

This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

and where it is not, it is left with no residue, and the social meaning of this is enormous.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

The meaning of this variation in distribution of the bronchial artery as found in the horse is not clear.

There is also the possibility, among higher religions, of experiencing consistent meaning in life and enjoying guidance and expansiveness.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

Ehrman says that this raises questions about the authenticity of the dialogue, the meaning of the words, and, therefore, the use of the phrase.

The importance of crannog reoccupation is therefore evident and full of meaning, especially when many instances see crannogs built near natural islets that were often completely unused.

The Catholic Church views that Christ himself established the sacrament of marriage at the wedding feast of Cana ; therefore, since it is a divine institution, neither the Church nor state can alter the basic meaning and structure of marriage.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

The animal's name can therefore be interpreted as meaning " a ' fish ' with a womb ".

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.

Within lexical semantics, especially as applied to computers, modeling word meaning is easier when a given word is understood in terms of related words ; semantic networks are therefore important in computational linguistics.

Joosten, however, while accepting that the carelessness of the English scribe is the most likely explanation for most such instances, nevertheless argues that a minority of such readings are due to translation errors in the Spanish text: as, for example, where the Italian text employs the conjunction pero, with an Italian meaning ' therefore '; while the Spanish text also reads pero, with a Spanish meaning ' however '; the Italian sense being the one demanded by the context.

Chinese and Afrikaans, for example, are highly analytic, and meaning is therefore very context-dependent.

The destruction of Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Davidic dynasty by Babylon in 587 / 586 BCE was therefore a deeply traumatic event, and led to much theological reflection on the meaning of the national tragedy.

Braid, therefore, adopted the term " ideo-dynamic ", meaning " by the power of an idea " to explain a broad range of " psycho-physiological " ( mind-body ) phenomena.

Inheritances therefore take on a special meaning with respect to black and white Americans: they directly link the disadvantaged economic position and prospects of today's blacks to the disadvantaged positions and outright slavery of their ancestors.

The International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ) therefore recommends the symbol bit instead of b. The prefix kilo is often used in fields of computer science and information technology with a meaning of multiplication by 1024 instead of 1000, contrary to international standards, in conjunction with the base unit byte and bit, in which case it is often written with a capital letter K, e. g., Kbit and KB.

Following the discovery of the Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai it is now known that the medieval word kami ( 上 ) meaning " above " is a false cognate with the modern kami ( 神 ), and the etymology of " heavenly beings " is therefore incorrect.

In various poems from the Poetic Edda ( stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál ), and sections of the Prose Edda ( chapter 32 of Gylfaginning, stanza 8 of Haustlöng, and stanza 1 of Þórsdrápa ) Loki is alternately referred to as Loptr, which is generally considered derived from Old Norse lopt meaning " air ", and therefore points to an association with the air.

Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows, however there are a number of caveats to this point ; not all plate armour was well-made or well looked after, and there were also weak points in the eye and air holes and joints where arrows could penetrate, meaning that even if the armour was proof against nearly all arrows, being shot at by thousands of longbowmen would have been an uncomfortable experience, physically and mentally.

Monopolies, monopsonies and oligopolies are all situations such that one or a few of the entities have market power and therefore interact with their customers ( monopoly ), suppliers ( monopsony ) and the other companies ( oligopoly ) in a game theoretic manner – meaning that expectations about their behavior affects other players ' choice of strategy and vice versa.

This commentary tends to focus on the meaning of the mishnayot themselves, without as much reliance on the Gemara's interpretation and is, therefore, considered valuable as a tool for the study of Mishnah as an independent work.

Muay boran, and therefore muay Thai, was originally called by more generic names such as pahuyuth ( from the Sanskrit bahu-yuddha meaning unarmed combat ), dhoi muay ( boxing or pugilism, a cognate of the Malay word tomoi ) or simply muay.

All of the V-agents are persistent agents, meaning that these agents do not degrade or wash away easily and can therefore remain on clothes and other surfaces for long periods.

By contrast, some other sounds would cause a change in meaning if substituted: for example, substitution of the sound would produce the different word still, and that sound must therefore be considered to represent a different phoneme ( the phoneme ).

The position of the stress in the word affects the meaning, and therefore a full phonemic specification ( providing enough detail to enable the word to be pronounced unambiguously ) would include indication of the position of the stress: for the verb, for the noun.

They therefore suggested that he place the office in " commission ", meaning that a committee of five ministers would perform its functions together.