Can you explain the polysemy of the word "measure"?

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What is polysemy? A word having multiple meanings. Playing with Meanings ... Here are two examples of how polysemy has been used in literature. 'The ... Aug 15, 2018 ... An example of a container/content polyseme is bottle. Bottle can be used to talk about a drinkable, as in Sarah drank the whole bottle. An ... Mar 1, 2024 ... Lexical ambiguity is a ubiquitous phenomenon. Durkin and Manning (1989), for example, estimate that 40% of frequent English words are polysemous ... Polysemy is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, morpheme, word, or phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word ... The authors point out that if all word meanings in a sentence depend on the other words, the interpretation process can hardly get started. For example, ... Polysemy refers to the existence of multiple meanings for a single word or phrase. Many research studies have shown that all students have considerable ... Jul 3, 2018 ... Give examples of 2 media texts that are polysemic and explain what you believe it is the audience interpretation or some aspect of the text ... As Viebahn (2018) emphasizes, these tests are often utilized to evaluate philosophical disunity theses. To give just three examples: in metaphysics, Hall (2004)/( ... Mar 25, 2012 ... Polysemy refers to words or phrases with different, but related meanings. · He drank a glass of milk./He forgot to milk the cow. · More examples ... The newspaper fired some of its editing staff. 4. A clear case of polysemy 2: The word Good in the following two examples. In one case it's a moral judgement, ...
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