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(of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
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(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
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(grammar) A grammatical construct that expresses approximation.
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(linguistics) The property of having one or more arguments; the syntactic connection between the verb of a clause and related phrases.
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Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).
adj
Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
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(psychology) A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.
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A relationship between two things in which one of them causes the other.
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Instantiation of a theme, principle, or concept along with another or others; instantiation by the same instance that also instantiates another or others.
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(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
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(obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
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(grammar) Abbreviation of comparative. [(grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.]
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(grammar) Expressing or relating to a comparison.
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(grammar) A word in the comparative form.
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(grammar) A case used to mark a likeness to something, or that two things have the same quantity of something. It corresponds roughly to the English adverb "like". Languages that use the comparative case include Mari, Nivkh, and Chechen.
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(grammar) The form of an adverb or adjective that is used when comparing two things.
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(grammar) In Spanish: the superlative form of an adjective when it is used in a grammatically comparative situation.
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(grammar) A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
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(grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
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(grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.
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(mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
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(in an experiment) The group of test subjects left untreated or unexposed to some procedure and then compared with treated subjects in order to validate the results of the test.
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(linguistics) A verb which takes multiple arguments, one of which is another verb, such that one of the control verb's arguments (possibly its subject) is syntactically both an argument of the control verb and an argument of the other verb.
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Of or relating to corollaries.
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(obsolete) deductive; involving deduction
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(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
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(linguistics, grammar) A form of an adjective that indicates a different degree of the attribute the adjective denotes; the positive, comparative and superlative forms.
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(grammar) that specifies the thing or person referred to
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(transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
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One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.
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(grammar) A sequence of two modal verbs, such as "might could", an impossible construction in standard English, but one used in some dialects, especially Southern US English.
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(grammar) A pronoun used to fulfill a syntactic role rather than one with a specific referent. For example, the "it" in "It's raining".
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In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority.” In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
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(grammar) A word in the equative form.
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A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
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(grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
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To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.
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(idiomatic) A fundamental rule or principle.
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At this point in the argument, narration, or other, usually written, work.
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(grammar) Referring to events of today, in an absolute tense, or of the day under consideration, in a relative tense.
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(general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
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Of or pertaining to logical implication.
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(pragmatics) That which is implied.
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(grammar) Relating to a construct in some languages that indicates whether there is evidence for a given statement, without specifying the source of knowledge (i.e. whether it is from hearsay, inference, or perception).
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A connection or relation between things or ideas.
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(now rare) A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
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(mathematics) A conjecture that holds for most, but not all, conditions
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(finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
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A problem that has been posed in a field of study such as mathematics or theoretical computer science, but whose answer is not yet known.
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that explains or qualifies something
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(grammar) A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.
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(grammar) Abbreviation of perfective. [(grammar) Of, or relative to, the perfect tense or perfective aspect.]
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(grammar) Abbreviation of perfect. [(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.]
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(decision theory) Being or relating to a probability that a rational person will assign to an option when required to make a decision.
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The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
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A unique, intellectual premise used to relate other to ideas.
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Relating to predicates or predications.
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The condition of being predicative
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(grammar, now rare) Pertaining to the present tense.
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(linguistics) A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.
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Relating to, or limited to, propositions.
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A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
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A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.
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(grammar) Abbreviation of relative. [Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.]
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(not comparable, music) Synonym of relative.
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The manner in which two things may be associated.
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Resembling or characteristic of a relation.
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Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
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(countable) An act of so doing.
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(obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
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(grammar) Synonym of consecutio temporum
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(grammar) A verb subaspect that denotes one after another, an interconnected series of successive separate and distinct actions.
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(grammar) A grammatical case expressing similarity.
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(grammar) A noun case used to indicate likeness, resemblance, or similarity. In English, this is usually expressed by the phrase is similar to or is like or looks like, as in "That bird looks like a robin." Languages that use the similative case include Old Turkic.
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A corollary of a corollary (in a chain of logical steps).
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(Uralic linguistics) A verbal form denoting an action that occurs suddenly or sharply.
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(grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which presupposes the completion of a secondary action as a premise for the primary action of the statement.
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(grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
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With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
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a hypothesis that is unverified yet tentatively chosen as a best guess to build upon or put effort into its verification
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