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The action of turning into an acronym.
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A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
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Mental weariness or lassitude brought about by an excessive exposure to letters, lettering, or acronyms
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The use of apostrophe characters.
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To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters.
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(film studies, literary criticism) A meta-textual entity created through multiple texts or works; a category or semantic construct embodied by a class of artistic works.
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Alternative form of code-mixing [Synonym of code-switching]
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Alternative form of code-switching [(linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.]
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Synonym of code-switching
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To alternate between two or more languages, typically in spoken conversation.
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Someone who code-switches (alternates between two or more languages during spoken conversation).
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Alternative form of code-mixing [Synonym of code-switching]
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Alternative form of code-switching [(linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.]
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A theory of communication arguing that people adjust their speech and gestures to accommodate to others with whom they are interacting.
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Relating to communications
adj
Whose function is to communicate
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Synonym of compunications
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(linguistics) Words that surround a node or another word; the linguistic environment of a word.
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(linguistics) Subordinate communication between participants in a conversation.
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Alternative form of cross-presentation
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Synonym of consumer research
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ambiguity in the interpretation of language depending on the frame of reference used
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(dated, humorous) To replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.
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(countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
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The use of hyphenated terms to describe people's identities, as in "Irish-American".
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(humorous) The overuse of hyphens.
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Obsolete form of italic. [(typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.]
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(linguistics) Synonym of language shift
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The ability to represent something as text.
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The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.
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Communication or discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about communication itself.
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One who composes palindromes.
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A play upon words; a pun.
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Synonym of program evaluation and review technique
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Alternative spelling of pseudo-model
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(computing, law) Synonym of pseudonymous
adv
(computing, law) Pertaining to pseudonymization.
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(conlanging) A conlang created by substituting new vocabulary into the grammar of an existing language.
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(linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
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Synonym of spell checker
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(sociolinguistics) An instance of the same speaker/signer using two or more variants of a sociolinguistic variable in the same section of discourse.
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A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object.
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(computing) To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.
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(countable) An encoding scheme, particularly for barcodes.
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(philosophy) To symbolize, instantiate
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A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
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A design development process that involves thinking of images that serve as metaphors for concepts related to a product or service, such as a rocket to indicate speed.
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The process of forming an anagram of a word with one letter deleted (e.g. indicator from dictionary), a form of recreational wordplay.
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The creation or coinage of words.
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