The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground.

The books database will have three tables, and the customers database will have two tables.

Fifty years ago the linguist and semanticist Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy, the fact that some words have a network of multiple but related meanings, is the pivot of semantic analysis (Ullmann 1957 [1951]: 117).

It may be that this situation arose because of differential investment or more competent coaching in girls' as opposed to boys' sports in that school, but it is even more likely that it arose because of the composition, coaching, commitment, and so on of all other net ball teams in their league on the one hand, and all other soccer teams in their league on the other.