Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are earlyexamples. The namecomes from the Latinturbo, meaningvortex, and thus the definingproperty of a turbine is that a fluid or gasturns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can performusefulwork.
I muggedup on the meaning of road signsbeforetaking my driving test.
But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are mosthappily profundified?
Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of wordsper serather than on their meaning or sense, presentlyflourishesundermanydignifiedguises.
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He'slike a humanparrot: he resays whateverhe'stold - without any comprehension of its meaning.
No longer just an excuse to eatgreatfood and drinkfineriesling, the Spring Festival has taken onnewmeaning.
Evidences from ectrophysiological studies which employedaffectiveprimingparadigms also support the idea that music can conveyemotionalmeaning.