>Slowly clapping

>>8960909

So what you're saying is, you're a fucking retarded infant who has no clue how dictionaries work?

>>8960927
Yeah he almost got words

But truth be told. Be like this. Words are distracting arbitrary concepts that keep you from the truth

>>8960927
you are the fucking retard with no clue how dictionaries should work.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Circular_definition

now shut the fuck up, call your isp, and tell them you want to cancel your internet

>>8960962
Define 'definition'

>>8960968
What defines a definable thing
Easy :^)

>>8960972
Define 'define'

>>8960909
The second definition has motion as a verb, not a noun like the third one.

>>8960977
I don't think so

>>8960962

So you're a butthurt little pissbabby as well as a moron? Good to know.

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>>8960909
>an act of moving
>implying that's an adjective
brainlet

>>8960962
Words aren't defined by other words, but by their context and the things they are used to describe.

>>8960977
>motion
>verb
Consider suicide.

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DESU OP has a point. One of them could have been defined as something like

> the displacement of an object over time

but that's fucking ridiculously scientific, that shit don't fly with casuals.

>>8961017
>having no reading comprehension whatsoever
>literally being autistic

>>8960987
actually, i am. i am, because i study how languages work, and from time to time, i have to look some words up. and what coldens my tea the most, is circular definitions like these. especially when it's regarding less common word, as english is not my native language

>>8960987
He's not a moron. Dictionaries have no choice but to have circular definitions. They rely on the fact that their users already know a great deal of the words in the language of the dictionary.

>>8960975
To state or describe exactly the nature, scope, or meaning of.

>>8961021
You must be a terrible linguist to not understand why dictionaries have circular definitions.

>>8961025
not a linguist or student of, and i admit there has to be some circle, but i think the loop should be quite long; in the example provided by op the word being defined is defined immediately by itself, which you have to agree, is not the right way of defining stuff