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ventaI have just met the word "disambiguate" in some documentation I'm reading (DOM Level 1, if you care).
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Yes, I should be concentrating on DOM rather than posting silly polls. Thank you for asking.
Update: It is, of course, a great word. It covers a concept which (in my opinion) isn't covered by any other word, and is nicely euphonious to boot.
I'd now close this poll if I had any idea how to do so :)
[Poll #357609]
Yes, I should be concentrating on DOM rather than posting silly polls. Thank you for asking.
Update: It is, of course, a great word. It covers a concept which (in my opinion) isn't covered by any other word, and is nicely euphonious to boot.
I'd now close this poll if I had any idea how to do so :)
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Date: 2004-09-29 06:21 am (UTC)Well, I was following "to dispossess" and "to disentangle", but now it occurs to me that "to dissociate" doesn't necessary mean to remove an association, it might mean only to draw a distinction. So I might have to give up on that theory.
In your context it clearly means "to prevent an ambiguity that would otherwise exist" rather than "to remove a pre-existing ambiguity", which is probably fair use figuratively even if the literal meaning were solely the latter, which it might not be.
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Date: 2004-09-29 06:37 am (UTC)Or to remove a tinctionion.
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Date: 2004-09-29 06:42 am (UTC)