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polysemic

River bed, though, is polysemous with the beds on which people sleep.

The term "and" has even been argued to have relevant polysemous meanings.

On the other hand, ius is also polysemous, since it can mean either law or right.

He notices a polysemous sign that reads "With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?"

If the two senses of the same word do not seem to fit, yet seem related, then it is likely that they are polysemous.

English has many words which are polysemous.

A word is judged to be polysemous if it has two senses of the word whose meanings are related.

These issues are complicated by the polysemous character of the terms "natural" and "unnatural" which can be used in many equivocal ways.

The word "surf" is polysemous; having multiple, related meanings.

Suggested explanations for this pattern of results focus predominantly on the highly polysemous nature of the English language.

Semantic shift can separate a polysemous word into separate homonyms.

After 1986, her novels obviously changed towards reflection on traditional Chinese cultures, with polysemous themes and varied techniques.

Combined with another graphic element, a raised fist is used to convey polysemous gestures and opposing forces.

The polysemous "characters" in (II) provides a link in the chain.

Words that have multiple meanings (called polysemous words) are often untranslatable, especially with all their connotations.

The style of Gracián is dense and polysemous.

In the training phase, evaluation task participants were asked to use a training dataset to induce the sense inventories for a set of polysemous words.

Pono is a notably polysemous term.

The senses of polysemous words (such as'charge ' or'rate ') are therefore most likely to have been used in the sense related to financial affairs.

Gigerenzer argues that some of the terminology used have polysemous meanings, the alternatives of which he claimed were more "natural".

Shens polysemous meanings developed diachronically over three millennia.

Other cases wherein the meaning is polysemous, however, may turn out to be more metaphorical, e.g., eye as in the eye of the needle.

The Fifth became "a polysemous occasion, replete with polyvalent cross-referencing, meaning all things to all men".

Lesk [1988]used dictionary definitions to disambiguate polysemous words within a passage of text.

The algorithm starts with a large, untagged corpus, in which it identifies examples of the given polysemous word, and stores all the relevant sentences as lines.

It sometimes overlaps with the polysemic term pariah dog.

"The power of a polysemic symbol is that it allows you to achieve solidarity without consensus," he explained.

Such a polyglot, polysemic art is hardly unique to Sarkissian.

The polysemic capacity of the signifier is what, in effect, prevents the passage of meaning.

It generally occurs with polysemic words (words with multiple meanings).

Ngäbere contains many polysemic words, meaning that the same word often has many different meanings.

The dorje is a male polysemic symbol that represents many things for the tantrika.

His candid "polysemic shots" have been compared to the work of Diane Arbus.

Since you have the latter to explain the former, you don't also need 'exist' to be polysemic."

Open posts "treat the images and videos as polysemic - open to multiple and contradictory interpretations from the audience".

Indeed it is now uncontroversial to talk of texts as a 'polysemic potential of meaning' rather than as carriers of a single message.

Various wordplays regarding the word sic are possible, arising either from its second polysemic meaning "to attack" or from its homophone sick.

It is a polysemic multi-layered language that remixes the basic structure of English and computer code through the manipulation of syllables and morphemes.

A homonymic pun may also be polysemic, in which the words must be homonymic and also possess related meanings, a condition which is often subjective.

Communicative-formal reasons (i.e., abolition of the ambiguity of forms in context, keyword: "homonymic conflict and polysemic conflict")

But the candidates can inspire everyone by appearing underneath a huge American flag, which Professor Kertzer calls a polysemic symbol - something with different meanings to different people.

In structuralist theory there is nothing to take over this task, so that ambiguity becomes fully polysemic, in the sense of consisting of an unreconcilable multiplicity of meanings.

The polysemic term Striscia, in English strip, can recall both a line of cocaine (something exciting) and the comic strip (something amazing related to the Cartoons world).

The elephant goad is a polysemic iconographic ritual tool in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, in the inclusive rubric of Dharmic Traditions.

These works are often fragmentary or chaotic, as they rely both upon the polysemic nature of mezangelle and the inherent possibilities of computer programming for the display of dynamic audiovisual elements.

The Gankyil is the polysemic teaching tool employed in the Dzogchen tradition to iconographically signify the triune of the Ground, a symbol of primordial nonduality.

It may also have been called Greuthungian Wall in later Roman accounts, but this is uncertain owing to a single polysemic manuscript occurrence in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus.

If semantic criteria were applied to homographs (which appear only once), like saw , and to polysemic items, like take up, take in, etc. , even the most naive speaker could expand the list considerably.

Dhvani, in contrast, lacks the structure of this type of convention and as a result is naturally polysemic, and the reader of poem requires the aid of commentators to fully understand its various levels of meaning.