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  Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical.
Many functionalist linguists and cognitive linguists, most notably Dwight Bolinger, George Lakoff, Talmy Givón, William A. Croft and M.A.K. Halliday, have argued against the notion of meaninglessness in language, pointing to the fact that the purpose of language is communication; that is, the exchange of meanings.
One of their arguments is that, while sentences like 'colorless green ideas sleep furiously' may be possible, they hardly ever appear in naturally occurring language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noam_Chomsky/Colorless_green_ideas_sleep_furiously   (731 words)

  
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Colorless coatings change the physical properties of the brick masonry on which they are applied.
When a colorless coating is considered for a brick masonry wall exposed to freezing, the water vapor transmission rate is critical to the durability of the masonry.
Colorless coatings are often applied to interior brick floors to provide a glossy finish and to facilitate cleaning.
www.bia.org /BIA/technotes/t6a.htm   (7681 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of gemstones Gold Arts Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
These tricons were once thought to be the result of etching are now beleived to be part of the growth process.
Colorless (white), gray, shades of yellow, brown, pink, green, fl, orange, lavender, blue, and very rarely red.
Colorless, white, gray, blue, blue green, green, violet, purple, orange, yellow, yellow green, brown, golden amber, peachy pink, pink, and fl.
www.gold-arts.com /gem_encyclopedia_1.html   (767 words)

  
 White Sapphire Gemstone Facts & Information - AwesomeGems.com
We often suggest Colorless (white) Sapphire as the accent stones in jewelry pieces, and the larger gems make excellent main stones in pendants and rings, but we do not recommend it if you expect it to be as brilliant as a diamond.
The refractive index for Colorless (white) Sapphire is a bit lower (1.766-1.774) and it has less dispersion (0.018) which means it cannot perform exactly like a Diamond.
A gem quality Colorless (white) Sapphire that is well cut is a very brilliant gemstone, but for the reasons I mentioned above it does not have the same fire as a Diamond.
awesomegems.info /whitesapphire.html   (1525 words)

  
 Essential Oil Dictionary, Detailed Reference Guide, Herbal Encyclopedia
The oil is a colorless or pale yellow/green liquid with a saturating nutty, sweet, and heady aroma.
It has a calming and soothing effect on the nerves, is valuable as a vasoconstrictor, useful in the treatment of excessive discharge of fluids and beneficial for the respiratory tract.
Juniper oil is colorless to pale yellow when freshly distilled but grows darker and thicker with age.
www.deancoleman.com /essentialref.htm   (12300 words)

  
 Colorless Diamond - compare prices, reviews and buy at NexTag - Price - Review
A near- colorless diamond is secured at the corners by platinum prongs.
A near- colorless diamond is secured at the corners by 18k white gold prongs.
A matched pair of near- colorless diamonds are secured at the corners by 18k White gold settings with comfortable screw-backing.
www.nextag.com /serv/main/buyer/OutPDir.jsp?search=colorless+diamond   (600 words)

  
 Russian Colorless Synthetic Diamond
3-24 is another Russian grown colorless diamond weigh 0.07 ct. The strength of fluorescence is not as strong as Fig.
3-26 is a Russian grown colorless brilliant cut diamond weigh 0.31 ct. Bottom side view which shows grown sectors in the middle of pavilion facets.
The dealers will have to rely on magnified observation of its metallic inclusions and their magnetism as the main characteristics of identification with the fluorescence and phosphorescence from the short-wave ultraviolet rays as a supplementary characteristic.
www.solstardiamond.com /articles/synthetic.htm   (1669 words)

  
 COLORLESS - Definition
Without color ; not distinguished by any hue ; transparent ; as, colorless water.
Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling ; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music ; a colorless style ; definitions should be colorless.
To have a colorless dream, suggests a depressed mood and a feeling of sadness.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/colorless   (126 words)

  
 ColoredBottles.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This experiment is based on the fact that the indicators are oxidation-reduction rather than acid-base as we have been mostly using.
The indicator has a color in the oxidized state and colorless in the reduced state.
As the solution is allowed to stand, the indicator is gradually reduced by the glucose in the basic solution to the colorless state.
www.elmhurst.edu /~chm/demos/ColoredBottles.html   (521 words)

  
 Colorless green ideas sleep furiously   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The sentence, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously", was presented by Chomsky, as a great example of a series of words strung together randomly.
So it follows that a colorless green idea is a new, untried idea that is without vividness, dull and unexciting.
In short, the cited sentence was a colorless green idea that had slept furiously.
home.tiac.net /~cri/1997/chomsky.html   (367 words)

  
 Colorless   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Of course the diamond is going to be "white", but what really makes a diamond colorless is how it looks when it's observed face down against a flat white background.
Against the flat white background the still will still be colorless.
Here are the letters D, E and F. As we progress further on in this section of "color" I'll be showing you some comparisons between the "D" next to other letters on the color scale.
www.goodoldgold.com /colorless.htm   (76 words)

  
 Neon - Ne - Neon is used glow lamps, electron tubes, signs, plasma studies, fluorescent starter tubes, cryogenic ...
Neon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless monatomic gas, belonging to the Group VIIIA elements, called noble
Neon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless monatomic gas, belonging to the Group VIIIA elements, called noble gases.
Neon, the name of which is derived from the Greek word neos, "new," is present in some minerals, but its only commercial source is the atmosphere, of which it comprises 18 parts per 1,000,000 by volume.
www.c-f-c.com /specgas_products/neon.htm   (380 words)

  
 MI: CONTRIBUTIONS: OTHER: AZTLAN University: 21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This instrument is used to determine the weight and density of Colorless brains.
After thousands of test, calculations and 7 years of research it has been determined that 95% of a sampling of 10,000 that Colorless with underweight, underdeveloped, and porous brains were predisposed to being Republicans.
Because of the delicate nature of the decomposing remains of the Colorless, Paliluz-Huitzilpochtli is generally used at the final stages of the excavation.
multiple.insertions.com /mi_html/contrib/other/07_pg21.htm   (273 words)

  
 ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Trichloroethylene (TCE)
HIGHLIGHTS: Trichloroethylene is a colorless liquid which is used as a solvent for cleaning metal parts.
Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a nonflammable, colorless liquid with a somewhat sweet odor and a sweet, burning taste.
It is used mainly as a solvent to remove grease from metal parts, but it is also an ingredient in adhesives, paint removers, typewriter correction fluids, and spot removers.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /tfacts19.html   (1012 words)

  
 GOSHENITE, a gemstone variety of beryl
Goshenite is a variety name applied to the colorless beryl, the "mother of gemstones".
Other colors of beryl are simply referred to by their color, such as in golden beryl and red beryl.
Since all these color varieties are caused by impurities and pure beryl is colorless, it might be tempting to assume that goshenite is the purest variety of beryl.
mineral.galleries.com /minerals/gemstone/goshenit/goshenit.htm   (149 words)

  
 The Alliances Spoiler
Whenever a snow-covered land is tapped for mana, it produces one additional mana of the same type and does not untap during its controller's next untap phase.
Target opponent chooses one: you draw three cards; or you choose and bury up to two target creatures that opponent controls and he or she draws up to three cards.
Diminishing Returns (Sorcery) [2 Colorless, UU] {R2} Each player shuffles his or her hand and graveyard into his or her library.
www.cwru.edu /orgs/magic/alliance.html   (4374 words)

  
 Language Log: Colorless green probability estimates
In an article "Formal grammar and information theory: together again?", Fernando Pereira describes an experiment that disproves Chomsky on this point, by fitting a simple statistical model (an "aggregate bigram model") to a corpus of newspaper text.
The sentence "Furiously sleep green ideas colorless" is estimated by this model to be about 200,000 times less probable than "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" (p.
Read the whole thing, which gives a picture of the history of these issues since 1950, including a sympathetic account of Zellig Harris' research program, and makes some interesting suggestions for the future.
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000025.html   (269 words)

  
 Colorless Green Homunculi by William L. Benzon
As a way of appreciating the depth of Aunger’s confusion, recall Chomsky’s famous example sentence: colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
The notion of “colorless green” is contradictory while that of “furious sleep” is a bit odd.
For all his invocation of neural detail, his sixty-four pages of neuromemetics amounts to little more than a gaggle of colorless green homunculi spiking furiously.
human-nature.com /nibbs/02/benzon.html   (4675 words)

  
 ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Ethylbenzene
HIGHLIGHTS: Ethylbenzene is a colorless liquid found in a number of products including gasoline and paints.
Ethylbenzene is a colorless, flammable liquid that smells like gasoline.
It is found in natural products such as coal tar and petroleum and is also found in manufactured products such as inks, insecticides, and paints.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /tfacts110.html   (883 words)

  
 Sanford & A Lifetime of Color's Art Education Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Art Marker Colorless Blender can be used to soften edges, blend, lighten and enhance shaded areas of most any drawing.
Then, use the Marker Colorless Blender to drag the pencil color while blending the two mediums smoothly together.
For a graduated tone, touch a color to the tip of the marker colorless blender.
www.sanford-artedventures.com /create/tech_colorless_blenders.html   (219 words)

  
 Colorless green gavagai
When the box of equipment was opened, however, the green badge was missing, so Jenkins, the junior member of the team, had to be green without a color: he also got the hardest job, which was to come up with new creative angles, a process which at Studge was called ‘ideaing’.
Without wanting to labour the point, one can imagine an interpretation in which none of the words have their usual meanings, and all are used in a different grammatical role from the one you would expect.
Now ‘color’ is pictures, so ‘colorless’ means text, or words, as in ‘Mark my colorless, son’.
www.consciousentities.com /green.htm   (945 words)

  
 Helium - Electronic, Research and other specialty grades. Properties, Purity and Packaging, Helium - He - Helium is a ...
Properties, Purity and Packaging, Helium - He - Helium is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas.
It is present in dry air in a concentration of 5.24 ppm by volume.
Uses : Helium - He - Helium is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas.
www.c-f-c.com /specgas_products/helium.htm   (697 words)

  
 Odorless, colorless sarin was used by Japanese cult in subway attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Odorless, colorless sarin was used by Japanese cult in subway attack
Also known as GB, it was developed by Germany during World War II, and was later produced in large quantities by the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Colorless and odorless, its liquid form can change into vapor that, when inhaled, can produce symptoms in seconds -- convulsions, paralysis, unconsciousness and respiratory failure, possibly leading to death.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/30/international1244EDT0530.DTL   (270 words)

  
 Colorless Pokémon
[2 Colorless Energies] Whirlwind If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon.
[3 Colorless Energies] Mirror Move If Pidgeotto was attacked last turn, do the final result of that attack on Pidgeotto to the Defending Pokémon.
[3 Colorless Energies] Super Fang Does damage to the Defending Pokémon equal to half the Defending Pokémon's remaining HP (Round up to the nearest 10).
www.angelfire.com /mb/PokeZONE2/Colorless.html   (611 words)

  
 MSH-Penkvilksite
It was first found at the quarry in 1975 and designated UK #41.
Color is usually colorless and pale gray to white.
Luster is porcelaneous; dull to silky on fractures.
www.saint-hilaire.ca /en/penkvilk.htm   (119 words)

  
 EGL USA to announce major breakthrough on near colorless diamond treatments at Budapest conference
His topic will focus on the characterization and lightening of a particular category of Type Ia diamonds, from brownish to near colorless using the high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) process.
To date, researchers have believed that only Type IIa diamonds can be made near colorless through the HPHT process.
The research being presented in Budapest is the result of a yearlong study at EGL USA's headquarters in New York in association with various international research organizations.
www.eglusa.com /eglbudapest.html   (422 words)

  
 Colorless for the games i burn~~
I use both Alcohol 120% and DVD Decrypter, still colorless on my games.
And where the region is set as normal have you highlighted it, press either the left or right button on your controller so it now shows NTSC (Or PAL, whatever your system is) the use Special Boot.
i tried what you said to change to NTSC or PAL with Special boot, but the games are still colorless.....
forums.afterdawn.com /thread_view.cfm/192783   (430 words)

  
 Bad Subjects: "Colorless All-Color": Notes on White Culture
Is there such a thing as "white culture?" First answer: depends on what you mean by culture.
Nineteenth-century writers sensed this repression, so that whiteness often becomes an emblem of terror in their work.
You are not logged in as an author or editor.
eserver.org /bs/33/cornford.html   (3016 words)

  
 macosxhints - Create a colorless top-level Mail folder
Basically what happens on the back side of many (IMAP for instance) mail stores is that a subfolder can exist even though the parent folder does not.
This is a minor bug in Mail, and you can get rid of the "non-existent" ghost folder, "cats" by deleting it again, even though it actually doesn't exist.
Also, appending ".mbox" to a colorless folder, you will restore it to it's former "blue" status.
www.macosxhints.com /article.php?story=2004020506354295   (1252 words)

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