meaning

It comes from the Latin word credo, meaning "I trust.

Because of social games and the like who your friends are on Facebook loses a lot of meaning.

The usual meaning of that term: A bank will loan out deposits, reserving a fraction for withdrawals.

But the claims of the class representatives have to be typical of the claims of the others, meaning that they are small claims as well.

Take for instance the word "addict", which like the word "war" is such a broad term that it doesn't have much meaning on it's own without further clarification.

Google Reader kept the content of RSS feeds cached forever, meaning it was the last surviving record of a huge number of dead and deleted blogs.

"Donate" has a very specific meaning, at least in the US, and comes with numerous accounting connotations, including the ability to write off the expense.

This is the rant I posted to Quora on the topic in hopes of getting them to change their minds:For a long time I've been meaning to write personal stuff about my mom's death last year from a brain tumor.

However, teaching evaluations dont just measure your ability to give good lectures; they are holistic--meaning, they also measure intangibles, such as the professor's willingness to help students, or his attitude.

In this context, under applicable law, Oracle may elect to get statutory damages of $150K for each of the infringements or it may elect to go after what are known as "infringer's profits" - meaning that it would ask the jury to award it damages measured by profits made by Google on account of the infringing acts.

This seems to be a rare case where removing words adds information, rather than removing it: "The talks failed because of politics" means roughly what it says, while "The talks failed because politics" means roughly "The talks failed because of politics, which is the kind of thing that always happens when politics are involved".Any linguists care to comment whether there's a term for this kind of meaning compression?