Both the original, literal, and the derived figurative sense were used in Latin, but the figurative is older in English.

)J also supports the literal (character) type.

In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, metaphorically, symbolically and sometimes in a historical or literal sense.

I said, If I can't get the craft that I want, I'll use the craft I can get.

And the code is in the form of these patterns of electrical pulses that get sent up to the brain, and so the key thing is that the image ultimately gets converted into a code. And when I say code, I do literally mean code.

The project is based on a journey, in the literal sense of the term.

Today, it applies to Russia in a far more literal way.

So for Aristotle, the kind of rule bending, rule exception finding and improvisation that you see in skilled craftsmen is exactly what you need to be a skilled moral craftsman.

A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs clocks.

There can be no free market for basic science in the literal sense of the term.

The terrorists hit multiple targets in Mumbai, both literally and figuratively.

The New Taipei City () is a special municipality and the most populous city in Taiwan.

The only common denominator uniting them is, in the last analysis, the literal interpretation of the Charter.

Women have long been engaged in traditional gold panning and small scale diamond mining.

2 For the verbatim record of the plenary meeting, see A 59 PV.105.

And he also understood that that foundation was crumbling, literally crumbling.

One does not have to lose all of one's blood to cause death.

There is no inherent meaning in information.

The precise meaning depends upon the context.

What is gender mainstreaming?

That sense is covered in Mexican legislation.

Compared to biologists, the ranks of medical doctors include a much larger proportion of creationists.

Reports of declining, small scale, near shore artisanal fisheries throughout the Pacific are on the rise.

The literal application of the New York Convention and the MAL may, because of a formality, frustrate the legitimate expectations of the parties.

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

Connotation of a name, if it has one, can be taken to be its meaning in Mill.

The symbols do not simply represent but participate in the meaning and, in combination with evocative phrases, are designed to provoke creative thinking.

Just because it's the literal equivalent doesn't mean it's the right word to use if you are aiming for some kind of literary effect, she says.

Further information was requested, particularly relating to artisanal production and small scale zinc and copper operations.

That is the meaning behind today's vote.

In that sense, population is at the core of development.

But in many other countries, the water is already flooding over the dikes, both literally and figuratively.

Rectification of the original of the Convention (Spanish Authentic text) and transmission of the relevant Procès verbal (15 December 2005)1

Now, I'm going to move now from this kind of the sublime in the traditional sense of the word, that is to say, awe inspiring, terrifying to the somewhat more mundane.

It is this sense that gave rise to the phrase, To a moral certainty however, this sense is now seldom used outside of charges to juries.

JH Is that a literal part of the image, or is my eye making that interference pattern is my eye completing that interference pattern?

Large numbers of artisan fishing boats are still in use, particularly in developing countries with long productive marine coastlines.

In this sense, Zuma represents yesterday s South Africa.

Human rights of migrants

(a) Leaves the meaning ambiguous or obscure or

(a) Leaves the meaning ambiguous or obscure or

Artisan fishing boats are usually small traditional fishing boats, appropriately designed for use on their local inland waters or coasts.

Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning

A theory of truth for a language can serve as a theory of meaning.

It retains this primary meaning in American English.