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Meaning is that abstract, fuzzy thing in your head that a word or a phrase represents. It includes what the word denotes and what the word connotes, but it also carries associations in memory, the context in which it occurs at the present and in which it had occurred in the past, class , regionality, ethnicity -- a whole panoply of things that, in the end, prevent most words from ever meaning ...
As for the legal definition, I found a discussion of some cases in the legal media here but it's a confusing discussion! Bottom line: in the subject case, the Illinois court judge ruled that 'until' means up to and including. (He ruled this way despite a case that the losing side claimed had set precedent the other way.)
However, there are cases where the first sentence really means "the midnight at the start of Friday". Since the common usage conflicts with the technical definition, if you want to be totally clear, use other words or other times. Friday night at midnight. probably will always be interpreted as "Midnight in the night which follows Friday evening".
"I had had a psycholytic dose of LSD, one that allowed the patient to explore his psyche in an unconstrained but still deliberate manner while remaining sufficiently combobulated to talk about it." from "How To Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan, Penguin Books 2019, page 253. Here "combobulated" means the opposite of "discombobulated".
peppa pig, a nick jr tv show say cheeky like all the time. – user38338. Feb 27, 2013 at 0:09. 'Cheeky' is quite (and often unhelpfully) polysemous. ODO has: impudent or irreverent, typically in an amusing way. "a cheeky grin" ... synonyms: impudent, impertinent, insolent, ... mannerless, rude, insulting. – Edwin Ashworth.
3. Just to comment, in Russian we have "lunatic" word as something between the moon and crazy -- in Russian "lunatic" means a person who walks at night while still sleeping. And also Oxford dictionary says about this word: "Originally from the Latin lunaticus (luna = moon), because people believed that the changes in the moon made people go mad ...
One of these, posted by Alycyn on December 1, 2009, might be seen as a missing link between Dan Blue's 2003 definition and Peaches Monroee's 2014 usage: fleek English slang means awesome [Example:] That was a fleek game. But you'll also see a gaggle of less promising entries on UD. For example, posted by AKJenk on July 4, 2005:
15. The two words "wholistic" and "holistic" have very different meanings, but there is some confusion and they are often used in an incorrect manner. The two words have very distinct meanings though somewhat similar in definition. Wholistic refers to the whole, a whole item or whole body of a person or thing. The word defines the consideration ...
As in @JoeKearney's answer of "I want to live within five miles of the office", which means "within a radius of 5 miles", in this case I would interpret "don't eat or drink 1 hour before and after taking the pills". - Another interpretation would be: Nobody that is closer to these pills than an hour's walk/drive/flight is allowed to eat or ...
It means "introductory something". The allusion is to a college course with the course code 101, which in the American system and probably others indicates an introductory course, often with no prerequisites. It's primarily American usage. Room 101 means something entirely different.