The meaning of a word can be derived from its etymology or it can be assigned arbitrarily and artificially.
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That Austrians explain good and bad times through the prism of inflation suggests austerity in outlook, but promiscuity in action whereby modern theorists redefine the meaning of a word.
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Arabic is such a language that the simple addition of a mere letter to a word can completely change the entire meaning of it.
Moreover, even within a single group, the meaning of a gesture could vary with context, almost as tone of voice can vary the meaning of a human's spoken word.
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At the top of the winner list is very, a word that carries little meaning on its own but to create a sense of urgency.
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If Obama and his branding group can boil down the broader meaning of the idea, capture its essence in a more forceful word or phrase that evokes imagery beyond the phrase itself, it might work.
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The point being contested (in a debate that has gone on in various forms for centuries) is whether accuracy of meaning is more important or less important than the exactness of a word.
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Nano is a prefix (from the Greek word for dwarf) meaning a billionth of something.
The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
After criticizing George of Bush the 2nd for starting wars with two enemy kingdoms, he used the same advisors and continued to waste the scare resources of the kingdom in faraway lands where victory was a word with no meaning.
Mr Moynihan argued that it was wrong to start with a narrow meaning of the word "participation".
When it comes to genuine, pro-capitalist job-creation, Obama is a saboteur, in the original meaning of the word.
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We are a caretaker government, so the meaning of the word "opposition" is perhaps different here than in other countries.
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The video can be linked with the electronic dictionary so that a user can select a word in the subtitle during the replay of a video and quickly check its meaning.
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Her readings of Melville are alive with detail and analysis a surprising word here, a dying cadence there, the shapes and structure of plot and meaning but she is above all conscious of the inexplicable in his work.
To call this a business, however, is to distort the meaning of the word.
Shirky, however, was referring to a different and by now largely forgotten meaning of the word.
Integration is often dismissed as a buzz word, meaning little more than the co-ordination of bus, tube and train time-tables.
Among them are "bucket list" (popularized by the eponymous movie), "gassed" (a slang word meaning drained of energy), and Oprah Winfrey's signature phrase, "aha moment" (a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension).
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During that time, the word "moor" itself underwent a change of definition: Originally meaning a Muslim, it became a generic term for any person from Africa or from the Ottoman Empire.
He would say that his government does have a big idea: to bring excellence and choice to the public services through a combination of increased funding and (New Labour buzz-word meaning competition) contestability.
Which brings us back to de Boinod's title: tingo is an invaluable word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left".
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When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.
One pathway, known as the ventral route, is direct and efficient: We see a group of letters, convert those letters into a word and then directly grasp the word's meaning.
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On average, audiences gave "Iron Man 3" an A grade, according to market research firm CinemaScore, meaning word-of-mouth for the film should be strong.
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