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(linguistics) A change in the meaning of a term depending upon context
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(rhetoric) Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.
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An alpha privative, a word formed with that prefix.
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Of or pertaining to ascribing names.
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(linguistics, of a language, word, word form, or word meaning) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
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The uninflected form of a word used as a dictionary entry.
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(sociology) A word or phrase that is used for othering; a term that serves to identify someone or something as other than the speaker.
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(syntax) The relationship between a node in a parse tree and its sibling nodes (usually meaning the children of the first branching node that dominates the node) and all the sibling nodes' children.
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Any of a class of grammars that focus on the link between the valence of a verb and the grammatical context it requires.
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(linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as Japanese and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
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(linguistics) The property of being a clause.
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(linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).
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(grammar) A compound word without spaces in it. Some examples: dishcloth, keyboard, pancake, waterproof.
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(advertising) A newly invented word used as the name of an ingredient, product, or brand. For example, the use of "Kreme" for non-dairy cream-like products.
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(archaic, rare) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.
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A class of words that represent the same concept.
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(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
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(linguistics, lexicography) A word that is not a function word, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.
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(sociolinguistics) The idea that listeners and speakers need to cooperate in order to communicate effectively.
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(semantics) A term (word or noun phrase) that shares a hypernym (or hypernymic noun phrase) with another.
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(grammar) The relationship between multiple terms that have a common referent
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Abbreviation of definition. [(semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions).]
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A definition or description.
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(semantics) The term—word or phrase—defined in a definition.
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(semantics) The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition.
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(rare) Pertaining to a definiens or to definientia (terms which provide a definition of another term).
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Of or relating to a definition.
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Abbreviation of definition. [(semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol (dictionary definitions).]
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(linguistics) The use of a word, such as a pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the wider context; a word used in such a way.
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(logic, linguistics, semiotics) The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
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Specific to the primary meaning of a term.
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(linguistics, philosophy) Something that is denoted; a referent.
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(linguistics) A word that derives from another one.
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Of, pertaining to, or using description.
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(linguistics) A word or expression used to describe or identify something.
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(semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
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(linguistics) A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.
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(linguistics) A phrase headed by a determiner.
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(semantics) A descriptive definition specifying one of the commonly used meanings of the defined term.
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(linguistics) Synonym of ditransitive
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(linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
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(semantics) A definition that exhaustively lists all the objects that fall under the defined term.
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(translation studies) The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its translated counterpart.
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(translation studies) An approach to translation centered on preserving formal features (such as vocabulary or syntax) of the source in the translated text; word-for-word equivalence.
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(Indo-European linguistics) Synonym of e-grade
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(linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.
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(linguistics) A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to ambiguity of a word or words.
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Synonym of generic name.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see given, name. A person's name.
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A word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.
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The accidental skipping of a line of text while reading, because of similarities in their initial content.
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(linguistics) An implicit sentence containing an explicit sentence.
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(linguistics) A form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
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(linguistics) A phrase of relative importance in a text, like a keyword.
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(grammar) The part of a syntactic tree above the inflectional phrase(s) (expressing tense, aspect, and/or mood), where topic, focus, illocutionary force, etc. are expressed.
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The literal meaning of something, as distinguished from its intended and remoter meaning (the spirit).
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(idiomatic, linguistics) Any word, set phrase or idiom that has strong positive or negative connotations beyond its ordinary definition.
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A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
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Synonym of logical quotation
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The debate about "logical punctuation" suggests two things. First, there is nothing very logical about it. As with so many aspects of language, what you use tends to be the result of a battle between what you were taught, and what you like the look of. Second, British and American English have more in common than people sometimes think.
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The invention of a set of logical rules in an attempt to explain something
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The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
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A definition of a definition.
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(psychology, artificial intelligence) Knowledge about types, domains, functions, or preconditions of knowledge.
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a literal, word-for-word translation.
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metaphrase; direct word-for-word translation
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Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
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The way names are assigned.
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Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
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(software) Synonym of nominative type system
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(linguistics) Anything, usually an affixed morpheme or a particle, that changes another part of speech into a noun.
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(obsolete) Nominal; existing only in name.
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The practice of paraphrasing.
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(grammar) A word or phrase that focuses attention on part of something, such as mainly, especially, or primarily.
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(grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
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(grammar) A grammatical device indicating that a verb's action or participants is/are plural.
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(grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
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(linguistics) The property of being a preposition.
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(grammar, usually in the plural) Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts, allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
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(linguistics) A term that is not an adverb but serves the same purpose, as this way in "You should do it this way".
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(grammar) The replacement of a noun by a pronoun
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A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, examples being Martin or New York.
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(semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
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(translation studies) In interpreting, member of an examination panel who can assess a candidate's performance in the target language with an unbiased viewpoint, i.e. independently of the original speech (either because they have not listened to it, or because they do not understand the source language).
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(semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.
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Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.
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(metadata) A word or a combination of words that semantically represent the data type (value domain) of a data element, such as the suffix "ID" for the data element "PersonID", the suffix "Name" for "PersonGivenName" and "PersonFamilyName" and "Date" for "PersonBirthDate".
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(grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
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(linguistics) A change in one of the meanings of a word over time.
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(grammar) An idiomatic expression in general.
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(linguistics) A component of a phrase that is non-recursive and not found as a sister of the head of the phrase, but rather as a daughter of the maximal projection of the phrase.
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(grammar) The practice of specifying what types of complements a word may take when that word acts as the head of a phrase of a certain category; this specification restricts the wordʼs category, making it smaller, hence a “subcategory” of the wordʼs category.
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A grammar that makes up part of a larger grammar; a subdivision of a grammar.
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Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.
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(grammar) Synonym of nominalizer
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(grammar) More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine, normally referred to as collateral adjectives.
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(philosophy of language) The interpretation given to a term in a specific context.
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A name that systematically designates a well-defined group of entities.
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(rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.
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A word that has a specific meaning within a specific field of expertise.
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A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
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(grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
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(grammar) A word or construct that serves to topicalize.
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(obsolete) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; a metaphor; a trope.
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(rare) In a way that exhibits simple transliteration; in a transliteral (transliterating) way; (that is,) being (or having been) transliterated.
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(grammar) A verb that indicates more precisely the manner of doing something by replacing a verb of a more generalized meaning.
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(linguistics) A mechanism whereby uncountable nouns are made countable and abstract.
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A word which is used as a personal name.
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Any of the forms of a word.
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A definition that is chosen for an occasion and may not fully conform with established or authoritative definitions.
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Alternative form of X-bar theory [(linguistics) A theory that posits a common syntactic structure for different lexical categories. Each phrase (XP) is the projection of a head (X) and may optionally include a specifier (sister of X-bar, daughter of XP), adjuncts (sister and daughter of X-bar) and complements (sister of X, daughter of X-bar).]
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