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SILEWP 1998-002 (11492 words) |
 | In the Macmillan dictionary for children (1982), the definition for house is: "a building in which people live". |
| house, home, etc. As Nida and Louw (1992:43) demonstrate, a list of glosses does not resolve the differences of meanings in specific contexts, nor do the glosses help to show how sets of particular meanings of a lexeme may cluster. |
| This does not even consider idioms such as on the house, the House of God, house of ill fame, a full house, bring the house down, eat someone out of house and home, a half-way house, house arrest, put one's house in order, and like a house on fire. |
| Charles Babbage -- Part II (843 words) |
| Every moment dies a man/Every moment 1 1/16 is born. |
| (A correction to Tennyson's "Ev'ry moment a man dies/Ev'ry moment one is born".) |
| If unwarned by my example, any man shall undertake and shall succeed in really constructing an engine... |
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