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:An analogy would be the word "carnivore," whose dictionary definition is meat-eating animal, but which has a technical definition in Zoology as members of the order ''Carnivora''" which include dogs, cats, and seals, but excludes many meat-eating mammals such as bats, humans, an marsupials... and excludes anything that is not a mammal. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:05, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
:An analogy would be the word "carnivore," whose dictionary definition is meat-eating animal, but which has a technical definition in Zoology as members of the order ''Carnivora''" which include dogs, cats, and seals, but excludes many meat-eating mammals such as bats, humans, an marsupials... and excludes anything that is not a mammal. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:05, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
:Actually, I see that American Heritage gives what I call the technical definition as its second definition. Dictionaries are really very good. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:07, 12 March 2007 (EDT)