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Conforming to acrophony.
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An erudite word, especially a Latinate or multisyllabic one; a word used by scholars, intellectuals, etc., but that is not commonly known outside of academia.
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(linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
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(linguistics) A human language that has been consciously devised by an individual or a small group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language.
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A field of study that examines how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate with each other.
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(linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
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Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication.
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(education) A technique for teaching grammatical structures, in which students first take notes as the teacher reads and then, in small groups, attempt to summarize the text in the target language.
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(linguistics) Any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
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Abbreviation of etymology. [(uncountable, linguistics) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.]
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The form of language acquired through education and reading, as opposed to the dialect one grows up speaking; educated or formal language.
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(chiefly lexicography) The definition and explanation of terms in constructing a glossary.
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(programming) A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
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A word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning.
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(countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
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Eye dialect spelling of language. [(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.]
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The measurement of the frequency with which words occur in text.
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The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)
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(literary theory) A minimal unit of reading, such as a sentence or sentence fragment
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(linguistics) A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
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(linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
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Computerised lexical analysis
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The vocabulary that makes up a language.
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(idiomatic, linguistics) language using words, set phrases or idioms that have strong positive or negative connotations beyond their ordinary definitions.
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(linguistics) A short pseudoword, typically of a single syllable.
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(international standards) A book-keeping device where – when a language as defined under the ISO 639-2 standard developed by the US Library of Congress, for the purpose of encoding the languages that published books are written in, does not correspond to a single language under the ISO 639-3 standard developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, for the purpose of listing all the world's languages in their publication Ethnologue – the ISO 639-2 language is assigned an ISO 639-3 code as a "macrolanguage".
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(education, sociolinguistics) A language used in teaching.
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A small sized lexicon; a dictionary or glossary covering a limited set of terms.
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(linguistics) a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech.
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Alternative form of n-gram [(linguistics) a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech.]
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(lexicography) A nonce word.
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(lexicography) the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
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Alternative form of paragram [A play upon words; a pun.]
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A parallel set of vocabulary within a language, e.g. a formal register, ritual language or secret cant, code switching
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A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.
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(linguistics) Language in use, as opposed to language as a system.
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A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.
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A word or sequence of words that almost reads the same forwards and backwards.
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(linguistics) The ability to comprehend information and understand spoken language (or sign language). It may include understanding of the vocabulary and concepts presented, short-term memory and sequencing information.
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(linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
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(linguistics, translation studies) A group of words which all relate to the same subject or concept, or to overlapping aspects thereof.
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(linguistics, translation studies) The language from which a translation is done.
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(linguistics) A mode or manner of speaking (e.g. accent, lect, dialect, etc.).
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(lexicography) A sense of a word that reflects a part or aspect of a more general sense
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(linguistics) One of the lists of vocabulary with universal test meanings/concepts developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1950-70s.
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The creation or formation of synanagrams.
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(computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
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(linguistics) A unit of text, large enough to have intelligible meaning, that stands in relationship to other units of text.
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(linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
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(nonstandard, rare) Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.).
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The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.
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(linguistics, education) A book that explains how to use a standardised language correctly and in keeping with currently accepted style, usually through the explication of what are conservatively viewed as language "errors".
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The deliberate cultivation or production of words.
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The words of a language collectively; lexis.
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The choice of words used; phraseology.
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Language that is given a unique legal status in an international organisation or other supranational body as its primary means of communication.
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