Sentence examples for by a current meaning from inspiring English sources

The great novelist would be astonished by a current meaning of the word jack.

83.1% of the most recent values entered by users were "current", meaning reported values were obtained within 90 days of data entry.

One of these was its current meaning - a woman kept by a man who is already married.

The word "fogy," which had once meant a wounded veteran, acquired its current meaning.

In overturning a ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals, the court also rejected the Clinton administration's argument that the state court had correctly taken a narrow view of the current meaning of the ex post facto clause.

Ollie Wastberg argues persuasively for Rudolph W. Giuliani's candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize, and by so doing argues persuasively against the current meaning of the prize itself.

"That's a news picture that suddenly had current meaning," Tucker said.

The current meaning of the word "reform" contrasts sharply with the way it was used by Europe's social democrats around a century ago.

This cannot be the current meaning.

Feed based on the desired weight, and not current, meaning you will actually be feeding less that the overweight amount, meaning, a reduction of waistline for your horse.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russell and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.