original meaning
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original
adjective
uk/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition oforiginalandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Unearthing theoriginalmeaningof these words reveals how they all, in one way or other, are ultimately grounded in the spatial domain.
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The adverb strictly retains theoriginalmeaningderived from the adjective hopeful.
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In the test, these words do not stand for theiroriginalmeaningbut symbolize objects, actions, or qualities depicted on cards shown to the child.
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At the same time, retention oforiginalmeaningfeatures shows up in synchronic distribution patterns and collocational routines.
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The title was also used in caravans of coast-based porters, and was therefore accepted in a multi-ethnic environment, where itsoriginalmeaningwas lost.
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The final result of political action often, no, even regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to itsoriginalmeaning.
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The researcher's response signals comprehension and provides a targetlike reformulation of the learner'soriginalmeaning.
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Ironically, theoriginalmeaning, when learnt afterwards, will appear deviant or incorrect to such a learner.
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A higher level of comic refunctioning takes place when theoriginalmeaningof a quotation is completely changed by placing it in a burlesque context.
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We also take into account the notion of conservative extension, a property in which a program preserves itsoriginalmeaningdespite the addition of rules.
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One verb, namely muse, had to be discarded due to its obscureoriginalmeaning, which means that we ended up with 21 verbs.
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This marker is often a lexically determined meaningless element, though it sometimes retains itsoriginalmeaningof ' causative ', ' middle ' or whatever.
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Itsoriginalmeaningwas a picture of the land not the land itself. 11.
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Rather, blow him away can take irregular past precisely because it preserves theoriginalmeaningof blowing someone away, albeit metaphorically.
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Gradually theiroriginalmeaningbecame lost.
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It is not necessary to know itsoriginalmeaningfor us to recognize that supposedly different types of monument were related to the same organization of space.
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Its origin, its exactoriginalmeaning, is uncertain, but the word likely stems from an expression for something built, something raised above or constructed on top of the ground surface.
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Because they retain much of theiroriginalmeaning, they are restricted to a limited set of derivational bases, and thus should be classified as compound adjectives.
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