In a similar way, the conceptual meanings of language can be studied in terms of contrastive features, so that (for example the meaning of the word woman could be specified as thuman, -male, +adult, a distinct from, say, boy, which could be defined" [+Human, +male adultIn a similar way, the conceptual meanings of a language can be studied in terms of contrastive features, so that (for example •)• the meaning of the word "woman" could be specified as [+human, -male, +adult], as distinct from, say, boy, which could be "defined" [+Human, +male, -adult]