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  • Exophora (redirect from Exophoric reference)
    In pragmatics, exophora is reference to something extratextual, i.e. not in the immediate text, and contrasts with endophora. Exophora can be deictic...
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  • Endophora refers to the phenomenon of expressions that derive their reference from something within the surrounding text (endophors). For example, in the sentences...
    2 KB (243 words) - 19:28, 10 August 2023
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    distinction in a number of ways. Sense is something possessed by a name, whether or not it has a reference. For example, the name "Odysseus" is intelligible...
    17 KB (2,206 words) - 20:05, 10 September 2024
  • reflected in various terms across many languages. The word gigil in Tagalog describes an overwhelming feeling of joy in reference to something cute and...
    18 KB (2,097 words) - 21:59, 19 September 2024
  • "Something in the Air" is the debut single by English rock band Thunderclap Newman, written by Speedy Keen who also provided lead vocals. It was a No....
    11 KB (1,050 words) - 01:13, 13 September 2024
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury, and the second book in his Green Town Trilogy. It is about two 13-year-old...
    34 KB (4,716 words) - 10:47, 30 August 2024
  • "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" is a direct-to-video special of the animated series Family Guy, which later served as the 20th episode of...
    40 KB (4,259 words) - 07:30, 19 August 2024
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    pressure of 79.7 psia (14.7 psi + 65 psi). When gauge pressure is referenced to something other than ambient atmospheric pressure, then the unit is pound...
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  • In ontology, a parasite is something which exists only in reference to something else. That is, it is a thing which can only exist as a feature, quality...
    3 KB (364 words) - 03:54, 10 May 2024
  • Point of reference is the intentional use of one thing to indicate something else, and may refer to: Reference point (disambiguation), general usage Frame...
    213 bytes (61 words) - 06:17, 22 May 2024
  • talking about something else". From the psychoanalytic view, there may be at the same time "transitions...to delusions" from ideas of reference: "abortive...
    12 KB (1,497 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2024
  • Warwick in 1963, "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" first charted for Lou Johnson, whose version reached No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid-1964...
    23 KB (1,653 words) - 01:17, 13 September 2024
  • On Denoting (category Works originally published in Mind (journal))
    proposition in which x is a constituent and where x, the variable, is essentially and wholly undetermined." Then everything, nothing and something ("the most...
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    Fiducial marker (category Articles needing additional references from July 2016)
    fiducial is an object placed in the field of view of an image for use as a point of reference or a measure. It may be either something placed into or on the...
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  • Richard Kyanka (category Suicides in Missouri)
    username Lowtax (a reference to Byron (Low Tax) Looper), was an American internet personality who created the website Something Awful. In 2001, Kyanka was...
    4 KB (317 words) - 13:18, 8 July 2024
  • meaning that the subexpressions are ‘transparent’ to the expression, acting merely as ‘referencesto something else. For example, the linguistic construction...
    12 KB (1,468 words) - 13:50, 5 May 2024
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    something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a [silver] sixpence in her shoe. The old item provides protection for the baby to come. The new...
    23 KB (2,568 words) - 16:51, 18 September 2024
  • Pragmatic theory of truth (category Articles to be expanded from May 2008)
    only in reference to something else, a second subject. Most commonly, the auxiliary subject is either an object, an interpreter, or a language to which...
    35 KB (5,273 words) - 18:33, 11 March 2024
  • adequate approximation of an inertial reference frame. The motion of a body can only be described relative to something else—other bodies, observers, or a...
    62 KB (7,875 words) - 07:39, 10 September 2024
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    staff at the reference desk for help in finding information. Using a structured reference interview, the librarian works with the library user to clarify their...
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