The former meaning encompasses such actions as the draining of wetlands, the clearance of forest to permit agriculture, and the construction of levees and polders to protect land from the sea.
The book was published at the height of the McCarthy "witch hunts" in the U.S., and this culture of suppression and censorship, as Bradbury himself attested, is what helped to inspire the book, even though its meaning encompasses more general concerns about book-burning, the rise of technology, and over-reliance on digital media at the cost of the written word.
Although the term poverty is often used in reference to merely income indicators, we employ it here to have a broader meaning encompassing a more comprehensive set of deprivations.
Kumamon is kawaii – the word is translated as "cute", but the word has broad, multilayered meanings, encompassing a range of sweetly alluring images and behaviours.
While these terms translate roughly to the English word "fever", their meanings encompass a number of other symptoms, such that they correspond closely to the clinical presentation of malaria [ 13, 31].
Their meaning is encompassed in items retained in the questionnaire.
Something passed between them, deeply, a sympathy beyond the standard meanings that also encompassed these meanings, pity, affinity, tenderness, the whole physiology of neural maneuver, of heartbeat and secretion, some vast sexus of arousal drawing him toward her, complicatedly, with [Dr.] Ingram's finger up his ass.
So the first meaning should encompass the second.
This idea will be developed further in Section 8 under the rubric of "mode" of illocutionary commitment.[15] Speaker meaning, then, encompasses not just content but also force, and we may elucidate this in light of the normative structure characteristic of each speech act: When you overtly display a commitment characteristic of that speech act, you have performed that speech act.
"The framers had a deep and abiding concern for corruption, and the word 'emolument' had a broad meaning to encompass profit of any kind," she said.
