Sentence examples for secondary meaning from inspiring English sources

It's not primary forest either, but secondary, meaning it has been chopped down before.

It comes with a secondary meaning attached, a meaning created by the plinth itself.

A federal judge affirmed this second (but not secondary) meaning on Friday.

"TMZ, because of its existence on the Internet, is essentially a brand that has acquired a secondary meaning," Mr. Werner said.

The court sent the case back to a lower court, where lawyers for Samara will have a chance to argue that they established "secondary meaning".

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court, said manufacturers must show "secondary meaning" to win a case that focuses on product design.

Another method to circumvent censorship is to rely on puns and secondary meanings.

Such is his simplicity of diction that the reader is frequently led astray by phrasings that double-back sharply on paradox or secondary meanings.

Although the core of journalism has always been the news, the latter word has acquired so many secondary meanings that the term "hard news" gained currency to distinguish items of definite news value from others of marginal significance.

There was more than one moment when the Metropolitan Museum had reason to remember that in the Oxford English Dictionary the word "Byzantine" has among its secondary meanings "complicated", "inflexible" and "underhand".Sometimes the upshot was in doubt until the very last moment.

Activation of the secondary meanings in these contexts, if any, can serve as evidence supporting the exhaustive activation theory of lexical access.