COD: a way in which an expression or situation can be interpreted; a meaningIn this sense , a teacher can be compared to one 's family doctor .In this restricted sense , signs are causally correlated with that which is signified .If so , can `` mere chemicals '' be signs in the full Piercean sense ?Not only are we unable to prestate the configuration space of a biosphere and predict what will unfold , but we also can not even translatein the sense of necessary and sucient conditionsfrom legal talk to normal intentional talk , let alone from legal talk of Henderson found guilty of murder to a physical talk about sound-wave forms monitored and masses at space-time lines as a description .Chuckles often emanate from the British employment of a term in a sense at variance with American usage .In a weaker sense , the same message is projected to American children , who grow up being told that it is not acceptable to be violent to one another , but who simultaneously have to endure corporal punishment and media messages about how `` the enemies of freedom '' are punished .We do not do so here , although it may be interesting to contemplate whether the Silicon Valley is , in the broadest sense , ‘feminised ' .What I find to be extraordinary about Woods ' case is that he remarked how while he has always been sexually attracted go guys , he is romantically attracted to women in the sense that he has always wanted a girlfriend and to be close with other females , etc… but never in a sexual sense .that might be a delicate balance , that they give the author 99.8 percent and the public .2 percent , but in my mind , that 's delicate in a very different sense of that term . ThaArchitectural style , in Blondel 's sense , describes the way that something was built .Computational biology , in the sense used above , arouses some skepticism among scientists .Go to work on can of course be interpreted idiomatically as attack , but the presentation also hinted wittily at the literal sense of the phrase by portraying a man pedaling to work on a cycle with a single egg-shaped wheel .Similarly , the phrase recorded live , while it suggests the overtones of a concert rather than a studio performance , may still sound odd to an untrained ear ( this may be termed sound mixing , in a double sense ) .Choosing a black over a better-qualified white is still racial preference , even if they both are `` qualified '' in the absolute sense .The behavior he is now being excoriated for was not Orwellian , in the sense of 1984 's world of inverted truth -- but Orwell -like , meaning that it was in keeping with a career based on political courage and intellectual integrity .What I find to be extraordinary about Woods ' case is that he remarked how while he has always been sexually attracted go guys , he is romantically attracted to women in the sense that he has always wanted a girlfriend and to be close with other females , etc… but never in a sexual sense .It seems hard to ascribe purpose , in the sense of acting on its own behalf , to a stone or a chair and easy with respect to an alga .Now , five chapters later , it is hardly an independent deduction that autonomous agents are the proposed organization of matter , energy , and organization to which purposes can be ascribed in the sense of being able to act on their own behalf .Posted by : Lexaburn at October 20, 2010 3:42 AM Christine O'Donnell is certainly ignorant in the sense that , while perfectly aware that there are many things she does n't know , she is clueless as to how that might be an impediment .It also is a 'social promotion ' in the sense that great Sonoma wines that now are forced to use `` Sonoma County '' will be giving some of their credibility to their lesser neighbors .Web advertising is smart , in the sense that it can be far more detailed and specific and because it can reach a target with surgical precision .The problem , in that sense , is not that there are big and small markets but that there are too few teams in the big markets .When Lenin instituted the New Economic Policy in 1921 -- which permitted a limited amount of capitalist competition in order to restore some of the country 's cash flow -- Rodchenko and Mayakovsky became the advertising agency for many of the state 's manufacturing and retail operations , which , in a sense , let them have their cake and eat it , too .This sense of technique carried over to English , and the original meaning of style was those features of literary composition that belonged to the form rather than to the substance of the matter being expressed .Of course , there is a sense in which my attribution of semantics to autonomous agents is purely tautological .