High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
A natural appreciation or ability.
The way that a referent is presented.
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
Sound practical or moral judgment.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.