Note that Algorithm 1 can be conveniently modified to evaluate distance rather than time by substituting d instead t, (D_{t}) instead (T_{t}), (D_{w}) (distance traveled within of (T_{w})) instead (T_{w}), and modifying the meaning of the equation (t a,b)) by (d a,b)) which now means the distance.
The major obstacles encountered by the Committee seemed to lie in the directness of the language used in the Australian QPLs, which required some degree of "mitigation" of the language, obviously without modifying the meaning of the items.
Derivational extensions modify the meaning of the verb root.
A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name.
Two tones are used to modify the meaning of words (high level °, and low-to-high rising *), as in yin° "tobacco" from yin "smoke," and nöy* "daughter" from nöy "woman".
But a word in a poem is transformed, its meaning made precise and unique, by its placing in relation to the words around it: in the same way a shot in a film is given its meaning by its context, and each shot modifies the meaning of the previous one until with the last shot a total, unparaphrasable meaning has been arrived at.
The Slavic languages make extensive use of prefixes and suffixes to derive new words and thereby enrich the vocabulary e.g., Russian čern-yj 'black,' čern-i-t'toto blacken,' o-čern-i-t'toto slander.' Several prefixes may be combined to modify the meaning of a verb (e.g., Bulgarian iz-po-raz-boleja se, in which the added prefixes intensify the meaning 'for many people to fall ill').
In addition, the core verb, the "go" itself, varies depending on whether you are going by foot, land vehicle, air or sea; and then on whether you are going once, several times or there and back, have finished going, or are still engaged in it.When it comes to other sorts of verbs, the prefixes modify the meaning entirely, turning entire swathes of words into siblings.
Chronic psychosocial stress may modify the meaning that we should give to single test results for inflammation.
This paper considers how different spatial imaginations of disease and place attachment amongst farmers modifies the meaning of disease control MIs.
In isolation, these function words do not contain explicit valence content, but their presence in text can modify the meaning of neighboring words and thus modify the emotional content of a sentence as a whole.
