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.
For a lover of language, the precise meaning of words contained in the law has been his goal.
In a sinister ironic climax, his boss, a police captain with a sadistic intellectual bent, pins him to the meaning of words looked up in the dictionary.
The second is the ability to combine words according to rules in such a way that the meaning of the combination is predictable from the meanings of the words and the way they are arranged.
And you have to play with the words to convey your meaning in the limited space.
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The framework extracts meaning from the driver's spoken words, enabling in-car systems to create calendar appointments, dictate email or text messages, set complex navigation destinations, and even perform general Internet searches.
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"The thing that struck me when I put together this list was that 90% of the top 100 words were one syllable, and that a large proportion were actually from Old English, meaning the basic words we use all the time in basic sentences are from before the Norman Conquest, " he said.
If I could have thought through the meaning of the moment in so many words, this is probably what I would have been thinking.
And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.
In discussing Islam we mean generally more or less what Muslims do in practicing their faith-tradition as they variously understand its meaning provided primarily in the Koran taken by them to be divinely revealed words to Muhammad.
Unfortunately, in all the words, a fair portion of the meaning tended to get lost.
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Despite the image of gold bars in Fort Knox, money has no meaning unless the people exchanging it agree on a definition, same with words.
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