- Jun 2024
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languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
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Amy: It's a real word. I use it all the time (of course, I'm a linguist, and I allow the possibility that I picked it up from my linguist chums, though it doesn't seem particularly jargony to me). For me, "disprefer X" means something like "not choose X when other options are available". This is subtly different from "prefer anything over X", quite different from "not prefer X", and totally distinct from "dislike X" or "object to X".
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- Mar 2024
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www.wordnik.com www.wordnik.com
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without science; in the manner of quacks.
What on earth? How can this word, which in my experience describes precisely the manner that makes something science, at the same time have a meaning that means "without science" and in the manner of a charlatan? I'd never heard of this meaning before...
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- Dec 2021
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blogs.dickinson.edu blogs.dickinson.edu
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slacken
To diminish in strength. To become slow and less active.
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sharp north
bitter cold of winter
In some copies the 'north' is written 'frost.'
It can also be interpreted as the sharp compass pointing north.
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hemispheres
The eyes are the microcosm of the complete spherical sphere.
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declining west
The direction of sunset (start of the cold night and time flow)
Natural sign of direction.
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maps
chart of the heavens
In addition to sea and land exploration, astronomy was another interest of the intellectual of Donne's Era.
Source: Redpath, The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne (1956)
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worlds
Can be either interpreted as continents or celestial bodies.
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good-morrow
good morning
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den
A cave where wild animals live.
Another expression to demean the immature pleasures the speaker and the addressee once enjoyed.
Also, the imagery of cave connects to the Plato's allegory of the cave which is the inspirational basis for line 6 and 7.
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troth
Truth
It can also be interpreted as a marital oath, implying that the previous night they spent together is not an ordinary one but a wedding night. The plausible addressee of this poem is Donne's wife , Anne More.
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weaned
To start feeding food other than mother's breast milk.
The speaker is supposing that everything that him and his lover did before they met and loved was infantile and immature.
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snorted
Snored
It seems disrespectful to use a verb such as 'snored', which has lowly imagery, adjacent to a religious allusion. Maybe Donne was purposeful with this uncommon decision in order to diminish the power of religious interpretation and draw the readers' attention more onto the power of love itself.
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- Mar 2021
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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A polyseme is a word or phrase with different, but related senses.
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- May 2020
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www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
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to remove the force or effectiveness of
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developers.google.com developers.google.com
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A "tag" is a snippet of code that allows digital marketing teams to collect data, set cookies or integrate third-party content like social media widgets into a site.
This is a bad re-purposing of the word "tag", which already has specific meanings in computing.
Why do we need a new word for this? Why not just call it a "script" or "code snippet"?
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- Jun 2016
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aclweb.org aclweb.org
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Neural Word Embedding Methods
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- Dec 2015
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www.gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org
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mendicancy
the condition of being a beggar
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- Oct 2015
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christmind.info christmind.info
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perspicacity
Perspicacity is a penetrating discernment—a clarity of vision or intellect which provides a deep understanding and insight.
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- Apr 2014
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futurepress.github.io futurepress.github.io
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higgledy-piggledy
Etymology?
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