Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

wrong again,
My definition as it was my question involving my situation is numberone in 
the only dictionary that mattershere.


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Karen Lewellen writes:
>> nope,
>> suggest means well suggest.
>> if the  question had been or if there had been no question,
>> a recommendation might have be considered as to have been implied.
>
> Well, let's try the dictionary. May I suggest Wordnet's #1, #3, and
> possibly #5 would apply as well.
>
> May I also note that your interpretation is #2 on the word list order,
> and mine is #1?
>
> dict suggest
> 3 definitions found
>
>> From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
>
>  Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suggested}; p. pr. &
>     vb. n. {Suggesting}.] [L. suggestus, p. p. of suggerere to
>     put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to
>     bring. See {Jest}.]
>     1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be
>        thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
>
>              Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all
>              the ways of sensation and reflection. --Locke.
>
>     2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to
>        intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
>
>     3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.]
>
>              Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. --Shak.
>
>     4. To inform secretly. [Obs.]
>
>     Syn: To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.
>
>> From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
>
>  Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. i.
>     To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.]
>
>           And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or
>           seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting
>           still.                                   --Tennyson.
>
>> From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
>
>  suggest
>       v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something [syn:
> {propose},
>             {advise}]
>       2: imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for
>          more clarification" [syn: {intimate}]
>       3: drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: {hint}]
>       4: suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
>          "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" [syn: {indicate}]
>          [ant: {contraindicate}]
>       5: call to mind or evoke [syn: {evoke}, {paint a picture}]
>
>> assuming one is reading more into the he sentence than needful, as you seem
>> to have been doing.
>> That the word suggestion was used, and as a question, was not or does not
>> to me imply a recommendation.
>> It was directed to me.
>> Karen
>> as Miss Teach
>
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