237 MEANING

Meanings are of course context-dependent: but this does not imply that only one meaning per user per context is allowable. Witness the natural language phenomena of synonymy. Even when we point to ambiguous readings all we are acknowledging is a division of linguistic labor.

-> Ambiguity 7, 8; Language environment 202; Lexicographer 237; Semantics 320; Thesaurus 353; Translation 362;

& Ambiguity 5, 9, 12; Information retrieval system 184, 185; Language 200; Learning 213; Metaphor 238; Translation 357; Understanding 372; Work, introduction of 406;

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