ling

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Even d/ling from Thingiverse isn't going to be that popular as most of the parts aren't super useful / attractive.

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Quick take

water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ling gathered in one view.

noun

water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

noun

common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

noun

elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ling.

noun

water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs

noun

common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

noun

elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried

noun

American hakes

noun

elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth

Example sentences

Even d/ling from Thingiverse isn't going to be that popular as most of the parts aren't super useful / attractive.

My concern is that the 'ick' feeling you get from the uncanny valley relies upon the perception of the viewer.

The tendency today is often to ignore the problem, given there is little penalty for failing to intervene.

There was the computational linguistics world which was 50/50 gender split, and there were no weird unspoken assumption that dudes are better at compling than women are.

As always in such studies, the difficult task is disentangling what people learn from a new language and what people learn from the environment that surrounds them, whatever the language.

And teachers are well positioned to observe children over extended periods of time, while doctor visits are often 5 minutes ling and most children will never see a psychiatrist at all.

"I've studied multiple different human languages over the years, and have also studied the methods of linguistics fieldwork used when scientists encounter previously unknown languages.

It's a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it's called a halsenflugel, and in Chinese they call it a chung ling and even if you know all those names for it, you still know nothing about the bird--you only know something about people; what they call that bird.

I find it interesting that the article says Gordon's work is the "first convincing evidence" for strong linguistic relativity, as the strong linguistic relativity claim is a claim that has been made over and over again, so I guess the previous claims are mostly doubted.