It appears you managed to quote Rudy's explanation AND completely ignore the content of it at the same time. These forums weren't created yesterday (you should know that, given your 2004 join date), and their guidelines aren't about to be redifined by someone looking up "forum" on dictionary.com and pushing the definition into our faces a la Jehova's Witnesses.
There are very few literary strategies more cliche and irrelevant than the use of a dictionary definition to argue a point, especially when you're arguing the point out-of-context.
Use it only if you're trying to set up your audience to doubt you, or if you're aiming it at a readership of 10 year olds.
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