I see you don't know the difference between a secondary definition and a different definition. I'm unsurprised at this.
Great advice. You should put down your shovel and take it.
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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
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oThe way a word is used is determined by the speaker's intention. If the spe aker had a "secondary niche definition" in mind, that's the meaning they in tended to convey, and the fact that the intention didn't match a more frequ ently printed definition is beside the point.
You don't want to understand that most people regard gliders as a kind of a eroplane (or airplane in your dialect). Citing a particular definition of t he word from a particular dictionary doesn't provide the kind of support fo r you point of view that you like to imagine.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
The original did serve Noah Webster's ambitions as a spelling reformer, and since he was selling his dictionary as a dictionary of American English, it also served the useful commercial purpose of freezing out English dictionaries from the American market.
To the extent that the simplified spellings he propagated were more illiterate mistakes than a coherent spelling system, his dictionary was rather more of a creative exercise than his customers might have expected.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Nobody actually does. Language doesn't work like that.
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There isn't one. When words can be used to mean different things, the "prim ary definition" is the meaning the user intended, which can usually be ded uced from context. The first definition in a dictionary may have been the o ne most frequently encountered when the dictionary was written, but there's no guarantee of this.
Your lack of surprise is based on a misapprehension. You think you know wha t you are talking about, but what you have written makes it clear that you don't.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Or, heaven forbid, a schematic (even without all the return current paths drawn).
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