Not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished vague feelings of sadness. Need help finding book title from vague description. Despite the heartbreak, i guess its time for me to move on. Vague language is language that talks about something without directly saying what it is.
English translation of vague collins frenchenglish. You know those posts on facebook where its obvious the poster is just begging for attention. It was a vague enough suggestion for everyone to be happy with it. Pdf firms have a lot to lose from the entry of competitors into their markets. The problem of vagueness is, fittingly, not one precise problem, but several related ones. Avoid vague language in your essays whenever possible, since it makes your ideas more difficult to follow. Precision is the domain of the skilled and confident author. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Because they lack clear boundaries, these ordinary words cause logical and semantic problems in various disciplines including philosophy, decision theory, and the law.
Start with the complete beginners course, then follow up with next steps. This could be an inside joke, or anything meant for only a few people. Vaguest dictionary definition vaguest defined yourdictionary. Start with the complete french beginners course, then follow up with french next steps. If something written or spoken is vague, it does not explain or express things clearly. New essays on ontic vagueness logic, epistemology, and the unity of science akiba, ken, abasnezhad, ali on. Since the officers knew little themselves their reassurances were necessarily vague. Ive become comfortable with vague second acts, and sometimes even vaguer endings. An intentionally vague or oneworded status update, alluding to something else. Recent examples on the web black rollnecks now feel nouvelle vague. Definition of vaguebook the online slang dictionary. The present paper examines vague language sort of e.
Proper usage and audio pronunciation plus ipa phonetic transcription of the word vague. The limited edition second disc is really where its at. If you come across one, send it over to vaguebookisat. Pdf vagueness in language use appears in a number of. How vague are international agreements introducing a. Not clearly expressed or understood their descriptions of human behaviour become vague, dull, and unclear. I hitchhiked back to town, got picked up by an alien spacecraft and was subjected to humiliating medical. Nouvelle vague definition of nouvelle vague by merriam. I did not grasp that schizophrenia is a much vaguer concept than i imagined. There are a lot of really good lovecraftian books out there that happen either in our own world, or in the past. Translation of vague at merriamwebsters spanishenglish dictionary. Information about vague in the dictionary, synonyms and antonyms. Vague reference is a common problem in sentences where this, it, which or other such words dont refer back to any one specific word or phrase, but a whole situation.
Vagueness, which is my topic tonight, illustrates these remarks. If something is vague, then it is not very clear or precise. Noun countable and uncountable, plural vagueries 1. These are admittedly vague concepts hence my phrase vague higher power entity. To avoid a vague pronoun reference, make sure that a pronoun cannot possibly refer to more than one antecedent. Vaguer definition, not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed. I have a vague recollection of meeting that man somewhere, but i cant remember where it was.
I propose to prove that all language is vague, and that therefore my language is vague, but i do not wish this conclusion to be one that you could derive without the help. If a pronoun seems to refer to more than one antecedent, either reword the sentence to make the antecedent clear or eliminate the pronoun. Vaguer definition of vaguer by the free dictionary. Vague definition and meaning collins english dictionary. When i talked about the vague higher power concept of god, i usually use terms such as allpowerful, allknowing, and allloving. Although it may be difficult to link the material in each essay quickly to outside sources, navigating the information within the volume is facilitated by a thorough and clear index, and by the titling of each viewpoint essay, in this new version of the book, by its exact argument e. English translation of vague the official collins frenchenglish dictionary online. Vague definition for englishlanguage learners from.
New essays on ontic vagueness logic, epistemology, and. Nouvelle vague biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Catrina fela aka vague is a character in the extinctioners comic books. Definition of vague written for english language learners from the merriamwebster learners dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and countnoncount noun labels. The identity of the city in the novel is deliberately left vague. Definition of vague written for english language learners from the. If music were a language, then musical vagueness would be just another species of. More simply, it could be a plea for someone to comment. Lipman department of economics boston university email. Vague words, like tall, rich, and old, lack clear boundaries of application.
Nonetheless, my christian friend saw this as too restricting of a definition. The perfect dictionary for playing scrabble an enhanced version of the bestselling book from merriamwebster. Of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning. A vague predicate can be defined in terms of boundarylessness i. As the creator of your worlds and your characters, you will always have the ability to make statements of authority in your writing. Vague definition for englishlanguage learners from merriam. Vague termssuch as tall, red, bald, and tadpolehave borderline cases arguably, someone may be neither tall nor not tall. Vague, adjective vaguer, vaguest ambiguous, equivocal, opaque, uncertain, unclear, inexplicit, unintelligible for example, if something written or spoken is vague, it does not explain or express things clearly.
A standard example of ambiguity is bank financial institution vs. The difference between ambiguity and vagueness is a matter of whether two or more meanings associated with a given phonological form are distinct ambiguous, or united as nondistinguished subcases of a single, more general meaning vague. Vaguest definition, not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed. Expressing vagueness is a common phenomenon especially in spoken discourse. Beaulac 2004 dedicates an entire book to the implications of a single word. Looking for online definition of vague or what vague stands for. Vague spanish to english translation spanish central. Vague is listed in the worlds largest and most authoritative dictionary database of abbreviations and acronyms the free dictionary.
Clear explanations of natural written and spoken english. Il est generalement place apres le nom et saccorde avec le nom ex. Audio pronunciations, verb conjugations, quizzes and more. The 1974 hughesryan amendment and the subsequent intelligence oversight acts, likewise, were aimed at making sure congress was kept fully and currently informed of covert operations and. It shows, in terms of numbers, which speech is vaguer and the vaguest. What im looking for is something that happens in space, or deals heavily with space and preferably not just on another planet as that is, effectively, same as our world.
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