If the word "spring" can be used in reference to my movements at all, this was the moment.
(It is also sometimes called Sheetrock, but this is a trade name of the USG Corporation and should only be used in reference to its product).
In this case the term meaning is radically different from that in the case of common nouns, in which the "meaning" is their ability to be used in reference to a class of entities, to denote or designate them.
In the past, we have provided instructors background on Steele's incident in Iraq, and shown a video in class of Steele's speech to his brigade before their departure, but these were never meant to be used in reference to My Lai.
Children in their second and third years sometimes use words as overextensions; "doggie," for instance, may refer to a variety of four-legged animals as well as to dogs, and the word "daddy" may be used in reference to all men.
The distinction between names and appellatives (common nouns) is generally clear: names are used in individual reference, and appellatives can be used in reference to all members of a class or to any number of them (e.g., river, hill, man, girl, car, table, virtue, and so on).
In Atlamál, the phrases "Hel has half of us" and "sent off to Hel" are used in reference to death, though it could be a reference to the location and not the being, if not both.
The phrase "groundbreaking tweet" is used in reference to an N.B.A. player dawdling during halftime.
In sociology, the term is used in reference to living up to someone else's high standards and expectations.
By 1565 the cognate word concertato was being used in reference to both voices and instruments.
