Sentence examples for its primary sense from inspiring English sources

Given its primary sense of "having two poles or charges," it can legitimately be used to mean "having two opposite or contradictory ideas or natures," as the American Heritage Dictionary says.

But the word's meaning was no longer just "a power-sharing arrangement among national and regional sovereignties"; its primary sense had become "a strong central government".

Orgasmic, which has 50 times as many Google hits as its modifying rival, orgastic, has in recent years been rapidly gaining in usage because its primary sense has been shifting from the clinical "climactic" to the metaphoric "joyful".

The word "stadium" comes from the Greek stadion, which in its primary sense was a measure of length; namely, the length of the track on which we were standing.

His subtitle, "Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance," conveys the burden of his thesis: to build is to edify in its primary sense, incorporating elevation as well as enlightenment.

He asks, "What's afoot with effete?" and takes us to its source -- Latin for "worn out by bearing children" -- to its confusion with effeminate and elite and finally to its primary sense of "exhausted, worn out, ineffective".

The first is reality in its usual, primary sense: the reality of the world & its events..

The first is reality in its usual, primary sense: the reality of the world & its events.

A typical water-filling scheme [10] is compared as a conventional protocol, in which the PSM constraint is estimated based only on its local primary sensing information without the coordination of neighbors.

While the definition of novel ecosystem is extended beyond its primary ecological sense (i.e., in relation to the crossing of abiotic and biotic thresholds Hobbs et al. 2013), it exemplifies how humans can be brought closer to 'natural' ecological landscapes by engaging novel human activities rather than simply attempting to reinstate nature.

Thus 'healthy' was said to be an analogical term when said of a dog and its food because while the dog has health in the primary sense, its food is healthy only secondarily as contributing to or causing the health of the dog.