A. Find examples of definitions that function in each of the five ways distinguished and explain, in each case, how the definition serves that purpose.
B. Discuss the following:

Federal law imposes a five-year mandatory prison sentence on anyone who “uses or carries a firearm” in connection with a narcotics crime. In 1998 the U.S. Supreme Court faced this question: Does traveling in a car with a gun in a locked glove compartment or trunk—as opposed to carrying a gun on one’s person— satisfy the meaning of “carry” in that law? Justice Stephen Breyer argued that Congress intended the word in its ordinary, everyday meaning, without the artificial limitation that it be immediately accessible. Quoting Robinson Crusoe and Moby Dick, he pointed to the common use of “carry” to mean “convey in a vehicle.”

The mandatory sentence, he concluded, is thus properly imposed. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found Breyer’s literary evidence selective and unpersuasive; in response, she offered quotations from Rudyard Kipling, the TV series M*A*S*H., and President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Speak softly and carry a big stick” to show that “carry” is properly understood in the federal statute to mean “the gun at hand, ready for use as a weapon” In this controversy, which side puts forward the better precising definition?