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(linguistics) A type of affix that is attached to the outside of a stem (an existing word), to form a new word. The adfix category branches into prefixes (ones which appear before the stem) and suffixes (ones which appear after the stem).
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(linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.
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(grammar) Of or pertaining to affixation
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(linguistics) The property of being an affix.
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(linguistics) Forming words through the addition of an affix
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(linguistics) A regular word that also works as an affix
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(linguistics) A circumfix.
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(linguistics) A compound or construction with apposed elements.
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(linguistics) An augmentive affix; augmentative.
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(grammar) Suffixaufnahme
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(grammar) An affix containing both a prefixing and a suffixing element existing as a single morphological unit.
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(grammar) Serving as a circumfix.
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The morphological phenomenon of circumfixing.
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Alternative spelling of circumincession [(theology) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.]
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(linguistics) A pair of adpositions that occur on either side of the complement
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(linguistics) An element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in combination with another such element.
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(grammar) A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.
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(linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or an affix, e.g. bookshop, high school or non-standard.
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A word composed of two or more stems or a prefixed word.
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(linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
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(linguistics) Characterized by the fixing together of elements
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(linguistics) Adding one statement to another.
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(linguistics, rare) A word or clause that is deleted.
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(linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word.
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(linguistics) A subtractive morpheme, that is, a morpheme which manifests itself through elision (the removal of segments from a root or stem).
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(linguistic morphology) Word-formation involving a disfix; subtracting a morpheme from a word.
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(programming) The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).
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(rare, nonstandard) A prefix (all senses)
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(transitive, linguistics) To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.
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(of a term) Taking the role of an infix.
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(linguistics) The addition of an infix.
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(grammar) An affix representing such an instance.
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(linguistics) An affix that inflects the base form of a word.
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(linguistics) An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
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(linguistic morphology) A transfix.
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any form of punctuation between words
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The case in which a string (in a language) may be decomposed to another string and a suffix
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(linguistics) An affix that has been extracted from an existing word.
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(linguistics) A morpheme that is not an affix.
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(grammar) A compound word with spaces in it, for example, high school, school bus, or science fiction.
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using, containing, or within parenthesis
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Abbreviation of prefix. [(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.]
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(linguistics) A suffix that indicates possession, occurs in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic and Indo-European languages.
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(linguistics) A morpheme used as a suffix following either a base or another postbase.
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(linguistics, rare) Synonym of prefixation
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(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
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(computing theory) A coding system that uses (typically variable-length) codes that are distinguished by their "prefix property", which requires that there is no code word in the system that is a prefix (initial segment) of any other code word in the system.
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(biology, cytology) Initial treatment of tissue with a fixative, as a preliminary to the application of another fixative or to the use of a different treatment.
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(biology, cytology) A fixative used in prefixation
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(archaic) The act of prefixing.
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Alternative spelling of pro-form [(grammar) A word that substitutes for words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, whose meaning is recoverable in context.]
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The fixing in place of something that had previously been removed
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(linguistics) An affix that can be detached from the word it attaches to in several instances.
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(linguistics) A prefix that can be detached from the verb it attaches to in several instances.
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Abbreviation of suffix. [(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.]
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(linguistics, rare) An alternative or variant form of a word or morpheme.
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(linguistics) A type of affix in which the change of meaning is conveyed by altering one or more existing phonemes in the affected morpheme, such as ablaut.
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(linguistics) The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs.
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(by extension) To include a term's inflections as part of a search engine's search.
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(linguistics) A compound that makes up part of a larger compound.
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To add one or more letters or sounds to the bottom of a word to change its meaning.
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(linguistics) A constraint on the movement of elements whereby an element cannot move into a specifier position that is already occupied.
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(linguistics, rare) Synonym of suffixation
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(grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
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The process of adding a suffix to something.
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(linguistics, dated) Forming words through the addition of a suffix or suffixes
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To add one or more letters or sounds to the top of a word to change the word's meaning.
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(linguistics, grammar) The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”.
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(linguistic morphology) A type of affix where a suprasegmental change (such as tone or stress) modifies an existing morpheme's meaning.
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Synonym of broadcast delay
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(linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic languages.
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