multiple meanings

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This tradition, which stresses "implicit language, multiple meanings, and ambiguity as an important means of communication" (p. 9), conflicts with contemporary notions of academic literacy.
It does so mindful of the fact that multiple meanings are to be expected of core goals of government policy.
Yet multiple meanings and discourses are intrinsic to the workings of commemoration in general.
The residents had a grasp of the multiple meanings and innuendoes expressed in gestures in interactive situations.
Measures of 'empowerment', particularly for women, are used in different contexts to carry multiple meanings.
To appreciate the full significance of this search, it is important to attend to the multiple meanings of consensus.
According to this model, the extent to which the multiple meanings of an ambiguous word compete is dependent on the relative time-course of their activation.
This twostage model has received strong support from studies examining the activation of multiple meanings of an ambiguous word.
Words, of course, can have multiple meanings, and it is necessary to be sure there is no slippage between them.
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