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单词 polysemous
释义
polysemous
adjective
languagespecialized
uk
/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.məs//ˌpɒl.ɪˈsiː.məs/us
/pəˈlɪs.ə.məs/us
/ˌpɑːl.ɪˈsiː.məs/
(alsopolysemic,uk/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.mɪk/us/ˌpɑːl.ɪˈsiː-/)
A polysemous word has more than onemeaning:
多义词
ahighlypolysemous word such as "play"高度多义词，如 play
Theterm"right" is polysemic andambiguous.“right”一词多义，意思模糊
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(Definition ofpolysemousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpolysemous

polysemous
These clusters succeed in distinguishing meanings of expressions even if they arepolysemous.
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This difference is due to the low number of homonyms compared topolysemousentries.
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Abstracting away from extra-linguistic considerations, one has a better chance to get at the central meaning ofpolysemousentities.
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It is not surprising, therefore, that much research on automatic word-sense identification has focused on relatively small sets ofpolysemouswords.
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Since its (activity) meaning is predictable, the supine nominal is seldom listed in dictionaries, and when it is listed, it is notpolysemous.
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By focusing on a relatively small set ofpolysemouswords, much larger data sets for each word can be produced.
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The corpus of target contexts consists of 665 verb occurrences of 20polysemousverbs.
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It is true that targeted tagging does not require a tagger to review a new and different list of senses for eachpolysemousword.
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In the accounts cited above, be going to is viewed aspolysemous, having at least two distinct meanings ('prior intention' and 'current activity').
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Moreover, many words are alsopolysemous, which, in turn, will lead to distinct conceptual representations for different meanings.
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Most jokes involve eitherpolysemousinterpretation of related meanings, or ambiguous interpretation of unrelated meanings, of a key word or expression.
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English think is not only a semantic prime; it is alsopolysemous.
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The term style ispolysemousand in design literature refers to different ideas concerning the artifact, modality, society, culture, period, and so forth.
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On the other hand, it could be argued that open ispolysemousand that the two sentences exemplify different senses of the verb.
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The writings and lives she examines, she argues, are 'polysemous' (p. xxix), their meaning depending on the questions being asked of them.
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