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(linguistics) The property of being an adposition.
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(linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.
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(grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
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Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.
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(linguistics) Synonym of analyticity
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(linguistics, lexicography) The absence of an exact correspondence between words etc. in two different languages; the differences between two given languages that create mismatches in a translation dictionary.
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(semantics) The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous.
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A word that is a hyponym of itself.
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(grammar) The property of a word or phrase which describes itself.
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In behaviorist-based instructional design processes, an expected outcome of an instructional unit. A well-constructed behavioral objective consists of three parts: conditions, behavior, and criteria.
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(semantics) Alternative form of cohyponym; Synonym of coordinate term [(semantics) Synonym of coordinate term]
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(linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
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(linguistics, translation studies) A semantic relationship between different parts of the same text.
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(linguistics) Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text.
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(semantics) Synonym of coordinate term
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Being or relating to a cohyponym; sharing a hypernym with another word or phrase.
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(semantics) A word or phrase that shares a holonym with another word or phrase; a part of the same whole.
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(linguistics) Being the sum of its parts.
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(semantics) A definition in terms of concepts, such as the one found in a dictionary, instead of in terms of the results of measuring procedures.
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(linguistics) Pertaining to, or governed by, a conjunction.
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Of or pertaining to connotation.
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(grammar) A grammatical construction in which a word’s inflexion is determined by the semantics of the word or words with which it associates, in contravention of what is required by grammar.
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(countable) The extent to which something is contextual
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(linguistics) The condition or state of be delexical.
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(onomastics, of a name) Composed of two traditional name elements.
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(linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
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(semantics) A relationship of semantic inclusion, such as that between "store" and "shopping mall".
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(semantics) The semantic relation of eponyms; the quality of being eponymous.
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(semantics) A definition of a term that specifies its extension, that is, every object that falls under the definition.
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A word that appears identical or similar in form to another word, but is both unrelated in its meaning and of unrelated origin.
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(linguistics, Optimality Theory) A situation where one input-to-output mapping pair receives a set of constraint violations that is a proper subset of the set of constraint violations received by a different input-output pair.
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(syntax) Movement of a word from the head of one maximal projection to the head of another maximal projection above the first one (i.e., such that the destination head c-commands the original head).
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(semantics) A term that denotes a whole, a part of which is denoted by a second term.
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(semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
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(semantics) The property of being a homonym.
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a reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand
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(semantics) A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term, as for example with insect and ant.
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Having the qualities of a hypernym.
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(semantics) The semantic relation between hypernyms; the quality of being hypernymous.
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(semantics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
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Alternative form of hypernymy [(semantics) The semantic relation between hypernyms; the quality of being hypernymous.]
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(linguistics) The existence of a very large number of synonyms for a single concept.
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(semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word.
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(semantics) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
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(grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
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(linguistics, countable, rare) The state of a linguistic expression which exists when the expression exhibits semantic-pragmatic divergence, when the semantic value of the expression differs from its pragmatic value; that is to say, idiomaticity exists when the inherent meaning of the words expressed does not match the meaning of the expression as understood by the users: the sayer(s) and hearer(s).
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(linguistics) An irregular form.
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The property of having the same name, especially the same family name.
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(grammar) Serving to connect separate elements.
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(semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
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(semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.
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(linguistics) The part of metalanguage that deals with semantics.
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(linguistics) An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.
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A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.
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(semantics) The property of terms of having a single meaning; absence of ambiguity.
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(linguistics) Of a linguistic feature produced by a language learner: unlike that linguistic feature as it occurs in the target language.
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(linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
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The creation and use of many words or lexical items for a single entity or concept.
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(linguistics) A word or phrase that shares similar meanings with another term in some contexts, but not all; a close synonym.
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(semantics) A word derived from the same root or stem as another word.
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The use of paronymous words.
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The relationship between terms that are pertainyms.
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(linguistics) A word that is almost a synonym but which has a slightly different meaning.
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(linguistics) The state of being close but not identical in meaning, as with the words "overcast" and "cloudy".
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Almost a synonym: a word that means almost the same thing as another.
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The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.
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(software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
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the hypernym for loan meanings, also known as semantic loans, and loan formations.
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Synonym of semantic loan
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(linguistics) A graph whose vertices represent concepts and edges represent semantic relations, such as synonymy—having very similar meaning, hyponymy—being a subclass, or meronymy—being a part of a whole.
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The quality of a linguistic system has being able to convey meanings
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(linguistics, law, philosophy) Relating to a sentence.
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Synonym of simultaneous interpreting
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(computational linguistics) The study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods.
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Abbreviation of synonym. [(semantics, strictly) A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.]
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(uncommon) Alternative form of synaeresis [(linguistics, prosody) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.]
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(grammar) Serving to connect; conjunctive.
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(grammar) a form of syntactic coordination of the elements of a sentence (conjuncts) with the help of a coordinating conjunction
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Alternative form of synecdochization [The act of synecdochizing.]
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(grammar) A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word, as in: "If the band are popular, they will play next month."
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Obsolete form of synonym. [(semantics, strictly) A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.]
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(semantics, strictly) A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
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Synonym of synonymy (the study of synonyms)
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(non-native speakers' English) Synonym.
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(semantics) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
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(philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
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Within a conceptual metaphor, the conceptual domain that we try to understand in terms of source domain.
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(linguistics) Of a linguistic feature produced by a language learner: like that linguistic feature as it occurs in the target language.
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(semantics) A hyponym that differs only by properties that are highlighted in the corresponding hypernym.
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The relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.
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(linguistics) Any of various possible semantic relations between a verb and its arguments.
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(linguistics) A linguist who favours transformational grammars.
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The quality of being triliteral.
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(semantics) The semantic relation between troponyms
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(linguistics) The existence of a one-to-one correspondence between signs and grammatical functions.
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(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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The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.
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