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Polysemy & Pleolexy
Polysemy is the name given by linguists to the lexical phenomenon exemplified by words like run and set , each of which has a very large of senses, many of which seem unrelated.
There are many thousands of such jokes in every language, for they depend for their humor on polysemy or homonymy, which exists in all languages.
Although the Index lists most expressions at least twice ( kick the bucket is under both kick and bucket , which is fine), it seems that no expression appears more than once in the main section notwithstanding any ambiguity or polysemy that might it might reflect.
As there are more than 4400 items in the list, one must assume that only forms are counted among the 2000, that is, take is counted only once, although its polysemy yields a semantic distribution of five.