meme
meme
Definition
meme (mēm)
meme
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- spread: Someone probably saw this, copied the idea, and so began to spread the meme.
- start: Perhaps this carnival could start a blogosphere meme instead?
- do: Don't just google meme, google meme tagging.
- have: In the meantime, have a musical meme, usual rules.
- take: Taking the meme 's eye view Why can't we stop thinking?
Preposition: as
- replicator: Most important, he treated the meme as a replicator in its own right.
Adjective modifier
- new: Would you be interested in a brand new photo meme?
- dominant: The grazer tends to get quickly re-infected with the dominant standard meme for the given territory.
- standard: A deviant mutated standard meme generated from within the territory is easily suppressed due to the already open-minded nature of the grazer.
- own: I like to think he would be pleased with how his own great meme has evolved.
Modifies a noun
- trick: Any that happened to have good meme tricks would spread more easily.
- machine: We humans, alone on this planet, are meme machines.
- theory: For others, the meme theory promises a more subtle justification of their social position.
- pool: Memes are not necessarily false beliefs but, in Dawkins view, they fight for survival in the meme pool of ideas.
- complex: I shall explain how and why memes group together into co-adapted meme complexes, one of which is the self.
- concept: The meme concept can only obscure this long-term process of enlightenment.
Noun used with modifier
- book: Book meme I picked this one up from Chris Meme instructions: Look at the list of books below.
- term: The term meme first appeared in 1976, in Richard Dawkins's best-selling book The Selfish Gene.
Possessives
- view: Taking the meme's eye view Why can't we stop thinking?
Possessives
- term: The term ' meme ' was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 bestseller The Selfish Gene.
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