Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To establish a single grammatical or semantic interpretation for.
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- verb To
remove ambiguities from something. - verb To
establish aunique semantic interpretation of something.
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- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the ... var news_amount = 9;
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the ...
Andy Worthington: Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah? 2009
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the ...
Greg Mitchell: Part II: Soldier Who Killed Herself -- After Refusing to Take Part in Torture 2009
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the ... var news_amount = 3;
Greg Mitchell: U.S. Soldier Killed Herself -- After Refusing to Take Part in Torture 2009
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the ...
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Via Media Monitor Brian C. comes this segment from last night's Rachel Maddow Show, which began with the host stressing the need to "disambiguate" the ...
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They have very similar names, so I thought it might be useful to disambiguate them:
Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? - Part 2 2010
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They have very similar names, so I thought it might be useful to disambiguate them:
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The lesson here is that multiple meanings are fine, so long as context can be used to disambiguate them.
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They have very similar names, so I thought it might be useful to disambiguate them:
The latest science, summarized and assessed | Serendipity 2010
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