Moreover, even within a single group, the meaning of a gesture could vary with context, almost as tone of voice can vary the meaning of a human's spoken word.
ECONOMIST: Evidence that the first words were movements, not sounds
Ms. SUSAN MEDAK (Director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre): There was none of that public self-analysis, none of that public scrutiny that we now go through over every major crisis that helps us, as a culture, define the meaning of an experience, to define the meaning of a tragedy.
The researchers' hypothesis was that the meaning of expressions has been hard-wired by evolution whereas the meaning of gestures is learnt and, at least to some extent, is arbitrary.
ECONOMIST: Evidence that the first words were movements, not sounds
If we take away so much of its meaning, then we must add something else -- other layers of meaning that deliver a deeper and more complex message.
"But from the early 19th century it gained another meaning - to give emphasis - for example instead of literally hundreds of people meaning hundreds of people, it could have referred to 80 or 90, " he says.
The BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the High Court "meaning hearing" was held in front of a judge and involved both sides arguing over the meaning of the words in the tweet.
Whilst supporting the motion, Liberal Democrat AM William Powell was concerned that there was little awareness of the meaning of the ecosystems approach.
When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.
And the fact that there's no tonal variation actually means that you miss a lot of the meaning of the things that he says.
Edwin Heathcote, author of the Meaning of Home, says that the volume housebuilders "try to squeeze in" as many units as they can into urban sites.
So are revelations about Britain's dysfunctional royal family and popular works by cosmologists and evolutionary biologists that purport to solve the mysteries of creation and of the meaning of life.
If the Court's strict constructionists are to be intellectually honest in their interpretation of the meaning of "scheme" liability in StoneRidge next week, it would prove a revolutionary milestone in the saga of investor rights.
Leaving aside the issue of the meaning of entrance standards in a college dedicated to providing second chances for adult students, I gave you data showing that applications had risen this year and that rejections had risen even more rapidly.
He took the view that the difference between matters of fact and matters of meaning is only of degree, not of kind.
Is this album good middle of the road, meaning something for everyone, or bad middle of the road, meaning dead armadillos?
There will be plenty of debate over the meaning of the fine print.
The debate over gun control too often seems a matter of abstractions about the meaning of the Constitution and the permissible capacities of ammunition magazines.
Conservative journals are full of debates about the meaning of McCainism, and publishing houses are releasing tracts by conservatives trying to point the Party in a new direction.
For a lover of language, the precise meaning of words contained in the law has been his goal.
The quality of the images and the meaning of the final result will be a topic of discussion when the final ENHANCE results are released at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on March 30.
Meanwhile, it quickly became apparent in the Washington salons of national security and foreign policy that people who had never been in favor of missile defense took the meaning of the September 11 attack to be just the opposite with regard to the issue.
Courts are rigorously literal in passing on questions of ambiguity in the questions and the response of witnesses under oath and generally give the accused the benefit of any doubt on possible interpretations of the questions and the meaning of the allegedly perjurious response.
Specifically, 51 percent of parents did not understand that a child in the 10th percentile for height (meaning they are shorter than most of their peers) and 90th percentile for weight (meaning they weigh more than most of their peers) was overweight.
Despite five centuries of scholarly attention, the precise meaning of sheets such as this remains opaque.
Billy Liar and even part of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life were made in Bradford.
The rise of young entrepreneurs is extending the meaning of the demographic dividend.
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The idea there was to both remind us of the horrors of the Nazis and the importance of living a life of meaning even under the most horrific of circumstances.
Once upon a time, there was a heated discussion in the world of the Gods, about the meaning of the primordial sound, AUM, often described in Hindu theology, as the first and most fundamental sound created.
The state, however, finds this clarity insufficient, believes that all definitions entail multiple words (or a dictionary would be a thesaurus), and so elaborates on its own, creates similarity out of disparity, and changes the meaning of these terms in the process.
"This is the cheapest stimulus package you can imagine, " he told an audience at Harvard University on Saturday, saying that for the EU, "the income effects of the deal that we are now trying to achieve should be between 0.5% and 1% of GDP, meaning hundreds of thousands of jobs".
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