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From Merriam-Webster, in this sense it means: characterized by especially rugged and forceful physical activity

This is an important issue in philosophy; the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has entries for word meaning, definitions, and theories of meaning more generally. … To quote one very small part of the entry on word meaning: Since the early 1970s, views on lexical meaning were revolutionized by semantic externalism. …

I think that Collins provides a better definition of this sense of the word: sarcastic, sneering, etc. Cynicism (in the modern sense) refers not just to a way of thinking, but also to a way of talki …

In general, the suffix -rrhea comes from Greek ῥοία ("flow"). "Rhythm" and "hemmorhage" do not, but there are a number of related words: Mennorrhea is the flow of blood during menstruation; amennorhe …

minister, had acquired influence as Pyotr Stolypin’s brother-in-law, and in his access to power, he had been pushed from below as well as pulled from above In the context of the above sentence, the usual meaning …

So the meaning is: the number of books you take must not be greater than two. …

This is likely related to the phrase put the hammer down, defined by TFD as: To press down the accelerator (of an automobile) as far as possible; to accelerate to or travel at an automobile's maximum …

In context, he presumably means that his skin color helped give him the opportunities he received.

That is the public switched telephone network (PSTN). As Wikipedia states: The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by nationa …

The sentence is ambiguous, but it does seem more likely that the multiplication is intended to happen before the square root. If you wanted to force the other interpretation, you could reword the sent …

Hellion commented: The botanist is not sure that a variety included by (either Pliny or Theophrastus) under its Latin name should also be included under its English name.

A doctor (while giving me a physical) recently said to me that we needn't have to look for teleological explanations for my condition. I suspect that your doctor may have confused the word teleologi …

so is neoplanastic likely just a typo for pleonastic? Almost certainly. I can't find any other uses of the word, and the established word "pleonastic" works perfectly here.

Being "weak-minded" can imply weakness of the will, i.e. a lack of self-control that causes one to act against one's better judgment. (The technical term for this is "akrasia.")

In certain contexts, particularly when describing a work of fiction, you could call them sympathetic, defined in this sense by Cambridge as: If a character in a book or movie is sympathetic, they are …