Sentence examples for frequent meaning from inspiring English sources

Service on passenger rail systems like Amtrak is much less frequent, meaning that track workers can order the slowing or stopping of trains without causing major delays.

Moreover, airlines are using these planes on longer routes than in previous years, and onboard delays have grown more frequent, meaning a lengthier stay in less-than-ideal quarters.

In addition, it is the second most frequent meaning in Patrick and equal fourth in Brooks.

Manner: quality is the third most frequent meaning in Bowen, and the second in the other three texts.

Each target sentence was preceded by another sentence playing the role of context, which was designed to prime the less frequent meaning of the ambiguous word.

We report the oral picture naming performance of the German aphasic MW who presented with frequent meaning related word substitutions (e.g. tiger⇒lion) and word finding blockings (omissions) while his phonological capacities at the single word level were nearly preserved.

In the experiment reported below, sentential contexts are biased towards the primary (i.e., the more frequent) meanings of the ambiguous words.

Such tasks typically use homographs with a dominant (high-frequent) and subordinate (low-frequent) meaning.

High-frequent meanings were given five prelearning trials; low-frequent meanings were given two prelearning trials.

Conditions were crossed such that one pair of homographs encompassed a high-frequent correct and a low-frequent incorrect meaning, one encompassed a low-frequent correct and a high-frequent incorrect meaning, with the remaining two consisting of two high-frequent meanings or two low-frequent meanings.

Since the performance scores on sentences containing a homograph with 2 low-frequent meanings or a homograph with two high-frequent meanings were very similar, the results for these two conditions were averaged ('equal frequency' row in table 2).