Words or phrases that can have two or more are sometimes referred to as polysemous words. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
Instead, the polysemous signifier "Israel" conflates. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name] Reference
It was a pregnant, polysemous term, intended to inspire. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness] Reference
The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name ». From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » 5000 years of Middle Eastern history] Reference
On its own, of course, a word may be horribly polysemous and ambiguous. From Wordnik.com. [Stanching staunch prescriptivism « Motivated Grammar] Reference
One Response to “The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name”. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name] Reference
Kinda redundant to describe any piece of art as polysemous, because it all…. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Bird on a Wire] Reference
Barthes famously said that images are polysemous, they have multiple meanings. From Wordnik.com. [What the New Yorker teaches us about visual literacy] Reference
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name] Reference
The reward for the reader is polysemous meaning, subtlety, fractal flavor bursts of emotion and idea. From Wordnik.com. [BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: Sentence Structure Oopsies] Reference
Put more simply, the words that we use to talk about war and to talk about arguments are polysemous, but systematically related. From Wordnik.com. [Idioms, Metaphors, and Lakoff, Oh My!] Reference
This is a rich, multifaceted and polysemous text that at the same time has a historical, a social and an individual perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 - Press Release] Reference
But then, so is syncretism in general, and for that reason, in describing his own work, Dante used his term “polysemous,” or ambiguous. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
(I use this polysemous label to refer, here, to the idea that certain judgments have an internal or necessary connection to motivation and to action.). From Wordnik.com. [Weakness of Will] Reference
And the deep resonances of this polysemous act by a tiny handful of women, interpreted as resistance, are enough to draw forth the fury of world leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
In the weeks after September 11, I saw for the first time that the flag—along with all its red, white, and blue collateral relations—is what a semiotician would call “polysemous”: it has multiple meanings. From Wordnik.com. [At Large and at Small] Reference
The allegorical poet encodes an oblique, multiple (Dante called it a “polysemous”) meaning in his fiction, using emblems and iconographic devices, for example, the scythe of time, or the apple of discord, and the stories that go with them. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
We should note that equivocal terms include homonyms (two words with the same form but different senses, e.g., ˜pen™), polysemous words (one word with two or more senses), and, for medieval thinkers, proper names shared by different people. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
I mean, "I'm holding you so tight/You coulda been a handle" and "The way you swept me off my feet/You could have been a broom" are comic but earnest at the same time, playing with the transformative power of poetic diction-the polysemous word-magic of simile that can turn anything into anything in the hands of a magician like Smokey. From Wordnik.com. [Smokey Robinson Is a Miracle] Reference
Just because the word "like" is polysemous doesn't mean it lacks specificity in a given discourse context. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
Just as מי (Mi) is combined with אלה (elleh), so the name אלהים (Elohim) is constantly polysemous. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel J. Scott] Reference
A method and apparatus for discovering polysemous words and classifying polysemous words found in web documents. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
I'm curious to see if a single search term DOES evolve into a "Did you mean?" with a list of search phrases appropriate for the polysemous meanings. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
In one embodiment, the multiple meanings and usages of a polysemous word can be determined by analyzing the co-occurrences of other words with the polysemous word. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
His classification of flowers, ferns, and stamps by analyzing similarities and differences prepared him to discriminate and organize the senses of polysemous words. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
In one embodiment of this invention, polysemous words in natural languages can be discovered by analyzing the co-occurrence of other words with the polysemous word in web documents. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
Another approach might be to look at documents on the Web where polysemous words appear, and look at the other words that appear near them to find words or phrases that might be related to the different meanings of those polysemous words. From Wordnik.com. [Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com] Reference
Medieval logicians seem to have been totally unaware of the fact that the Greek word used by Aristotle was genuinely polysemous, meaning both animal and image, and they explained the extended use of ˜animal™ in terms of a likeness between the two referents ” a likeness which had nothing to do with the significate of the term ˜animal™, which picks out a certain kind of nature, but which was nonetheless more than metaphorical in that the external shape of the pictured object does correspond to that of the living object. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
Laquo; The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The Nietzsche Family Circus] Reference
To what extent are the target terms merely polysemous, allowing for different uses in different contexts?). From Wordnik.com. [The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction] Reference
That’s a definition of a subset of a polysemous meaning: those who had an enforceable legal duty to respond to an official call-up. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ten Best Supreme Court Decisions] Reference
(I should add: not all polysemous words are problematic. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy, et cetera] Reference
They had gotten off one bus to wait along the road for another which, he assumed, would take them to other hamlets or rural scatterings possibly more remote than this -- assumed, for what did he know waiting perennially, or seemingly so as he was, and shaking his head from time to time to keep himself on top of the internal waves and not be overtaken, not be absorbed by them - waves which came upon him voraciously like inundating tongues, polysemous tsunamis of a muted, mutating language cryptic to him, not of volition and thus adventitious in a sense, but still of his own making. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
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