They stated that a lexical sense entails the following properties: (A) different sense cannot appear in the same context (unless the complexity is triggered deliberately); (B) a sense is not an instance of metonymic or meronymic extension, but may be an instance of metaphorical extension (Lin and Ahrens, 2000); (C) the link between two senses cannot be inherited by a class of nouns.
a meaning facet has the properties as follows: (B) it is an extension from a core sense or from another meaning facet; (C) nouns of the same semantic classes will have similar extension to related meaning facets.