Sentence examples for compound meaning from inspiring English sources

Everything about the show is "meta", as layered references compound meaning like interest: Hamilton is metatheatrical, metahistorical, metamusical, metamorphic.

One asylum seeker was shot in the buttock outside the compound, meaning it would be investigated by PNG police.

The earliest Greek report of the creature is probably a greatly distorted description of the Caspian tiger, a hypothesis that accords well with the presumed source of the Greek word, an Old Iranian compound meaning "man-eater".

Diachronically, the verb 討厭 taoyan may have undergone morphological re-analysis and semantic shift from a V-O sequence, meaning "inciting loath" (討 tao "ask" and 厭 yan "loathing") to a V-V compound, meaning 'loathe' (p.c. with Prof. Chinfa Lien).

But THC is an oil-soluble compound, meaning it doesn't break down well in blood, which is mostly water.

For me nostalgia often has a sense of sadness, and at some point I looked up "nostalgia" and was excited to find out that it's a Greek compound meaning "homecoming" and "pain", which seemed so fitting to me...I'm also doing this as a reaction to the devaluation of music as a commodity.

Chinese is particularly resistant to loans; aircraft, railway, and telephone are translated by newly formed compounds meaning literally fly machine, fire vehicle, and lightning (electricity) language.

"The first three grands prix of the year will be hard and soft compounds, meaning that silver and yellow tyres will be first to make an appearance," the company said.

The problem gets worse with larger tissues because it takes longer to load the compounds, meaning slower cooling times and more opportunity for toxic exposure.

Whereas the 2-D clusters were constructed through a "direct" clustering of the compounds being considered, the 3-D cluster construction involved an "indirect" clustering of the compounds, meaning that their multiple conformers were clustered first, then the conformer identifiers were converted to their corresponding compound identifiers (i.e., CIDs).

Interest on credit cards is constantly compounding, meaning that the interest they are charging you is added to the balance on your card and then in turn accrues interest itself.[4] This means that your debt can grow exponentially, easily getting out of control.