In its connotation of killing or destroying, the phrase is perhaps aptly American: The Oxford English Dictionary traces this slang usage to 1939, to Raymond Chandler's seminal detective potboiler "The Big Sleep" ("I'll take him out," the gumshoe Philip Marlowe says. "He'll think a bridge fell on him").
This must be so despite the very same arrangement being officially considered sub-optimal, as implicit in its connotation of transitory phase towards aquaculture.
"A snakebite is regarded as funny, scary, sort of biblical in its connotations, and something that can be laughed off and denied".
It discussed "rime" in its widest connotation, and it was noteworthy for its intellectual acuity, the scholarship for which was evident even though it had been created without consulting any books.
The vista – and I use this word in its fullest connotation – was sublime: mighty stacks, arches hollowed out by the foaming waters, enormous asymmetric chunks of rock flung about holus-bolus.
Four of the 77 records that were selected by the electronic database based on these criteria were later excluded from the sample due to the fact that, despite containing valid combinations of the selective keywords, they were topically not about nuclear waste: the keyword "waste" was in those cases used in its "misspending" connotation.
He maintains that in terms of their primary meaning or denotation supposit and nature are really one and the same, but in terms of its connotation, the term supposit signifies something more than does the term nature, that is, those accidents without which a supposit would not exist in the concrete order, and the exclusion of dependence upon another subject or center of existence.
The paper discusses and perfects the ecological compensation mechanism establishment in hydropower development, discussing its connotation, stakeholders, modes, and development of standards.
As the major basis of evaluating the value of scientific programs or research papers by the country, departments, units and individuals, original innovation is still worth exploring and studying at present in the perspective of its connotation and evaluation methodology.
With regard to health, unity -- in all of its connotations -- is proving to be a concept of universal relevance and profound importance.
Its connotations in actual use were variable: depending on a steamboat's draft (the depth of water required for it to float) and on whether the steamboat was moving into or out of deeper water, two fathoms could represent either safe passage or hazardous shallows.
