In a message dated 8/26/2009 17:35:15 Eastern Daylight Time, adam.raizen@gmail.com writes:This is precisely the difficulty that NSM overcomes.My point is that all definitions are essentially the same as dictionary definitions (which is why I added that word), and that the word's usage comes first and the definition afterwards, and even the most deftailed definition captures only a pale shadow of the word's usage.