In the English expression to kick the bucket, a listener knowing only the meanings of kick and bucket would be unable to deduce the expression's true meaning: to die. Although this idiomatic phrase can refer to kicking a bucket, native speakers of English rarely use it so.
The term "tabloid" can also refer to a newspaper that tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news.
If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
E. T. Bell
In general usage, product may refer to a single item or unit, a group of equivalent products, a grouping of goods or services, or an industrial classification for the goods or services.
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. Gregory Bateson
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.
Gregory Bateson
We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment. David Satcher
The initial letter of "tabasco" is rendered in lowercase when referring to the botanical variety, but is capitalized when used as a brand name to refer to the pepper's namesake sauce product, Tabasco sauce.
People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing. Stephen Rea
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction. John Boehner
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein
The term of "able-bodied" is also used by disability rights activists and their supporters to refer to those who function "normally" in society and do not have an outward physical disability.
