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The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.
The interdiction is meaningless for English grammar (or style), having been carried over from Latin, where a preposition must accompany the word it is connected with syntactically and semantically; like the caveat concerning split infinitives, which cannot be split in Latin because, as in most other Indo-European languages, they are single words, unsplittable nuclei, unlike the atom,
It is not surprising, semantically speaking, that the word widened its meaning so quickly since it naturally lent itself (as did closet ) to the description of a solitary place, one where people performed lavatorial functions.
In the CIDE the effort has been made to simplify such entries in limiting the number of senses dealt with by writing a few definitions--fifteen, in the case of take --that are intended to encompass semantically the basic range of meanings the editors deem to be required by typical users of the dictionary.
Since feminine is semantically related to words like sweet, perfumed, light , and delicate , which can be related to the smell, taste, and “feel” of wines in the mouth, we can understand how a wine might be described as feminine .
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