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(obsolete, colloquial, US, education) The letter A when it stands alone within a word, not forming part of a diphthong, etc.
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(linguistics) An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words, sometimes exclusively such abbreviations when pronounced as a word (as "laser") rather than as individual letters (initialisms such as "TNT").
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The collection of words and phrases that someone commonly uses in speech and writing.
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(computational linguistics) The set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
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An acronym or backronym that spells out another word or phrase relating to the meaning of the phrase that it abbreviates.
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(information science) A term prescribed by a controlled vocabulary as the one preferable to its synonyms, such as frequency preferable to pitch.
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Alternative spelling of backronym. [A word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes as a folk etymology, sometimes as a contrived acronym to name a new organization, proposal, or other entity.]
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(computer science, computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar.
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(linguistics) A word that is encountered in writing but not usually in speech, which people may therefore not know how to pronounce (correctly).
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A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
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(linguistics) A word that changes meaning when the case is changed; a case-sensitive word.
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(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
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(rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
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(computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
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(linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
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(information science) A carefully selected set of terms – words and phrases – such that each concept from the domain of discourse is described using only one term in the set and each term in the set describes only one concept.
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Of, relating to, or providing a description.
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(linguistics) A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling.
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the reading and writing concepts, behaviors, and dispositions that precede and develop into conventional reading and writing.
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(writing, editing, audio content) The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
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Alternative letter-case form of frankenword [A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.]
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Something that is written.
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(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
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Of or pertaining to an index
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In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.
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(uncountable, linguistics, translation studies) The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
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(computational linguistics) The statistical significance of a keyword's frequency in a given corpus, relative to a reference corpus.
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(linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
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A parallel rewriting system; a rewriting system in which as many rewrite rules as possible are applied at each step.
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(rare) A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a loglang.
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A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a logical language.
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(communication) A system of communication, including speech, signing, and writing, intended for use by and with people who have language or learning difficulties.
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A word, such as a search keyword or dictionary headword, that stands for itself as a word rather than having a meaning and a context.
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(computing theory) A symbol in a formal grammar that cannot appear in sentences of the grammar but may eventually be resolved into a sequence of terminal symbols.
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A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.
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(linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
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(lexicography, humorous) redundant acronym syndrome syndrome: a tautology in which one or more words that make up an acronym or initialism are used redundantly in conjunction with said abbreviation.
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(computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
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(phonetics) A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation.
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(linguistics) The sound of a spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign.
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simultaneous communication: the technique of using both a spoken language and a manual variant, or sign language, at the same time.
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Alternative letter-case form of skopos [(translation studies) The function of a written or spoken text, especially in the context of translating and interpreting.]
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(UK, education) Acronym of spelling, punctuation and grammar: a set of criteria used in marking certain examinations. [(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.]
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(computational linguistics) A mapping of letters to sets of strings, which creates a closed operation for regular and context-free languages.
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(corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
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(linguistics, computational linguistics) A database of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
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Synonym of turn of phrase
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(corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
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(corpus linguistics) The ratio of how many different words (types) occur in a text or corpus to the overall number of words (tokens) in the same text or corpus.
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Abbreviation of various. [Having a broad range (of different elements).]
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(textual criticism) Any of the observed differences when comparing different versions of a single text.
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(education, US) A word which a student is expected to learn; a word included in a test of one's general vocabulary or of subject-specific terminology
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Any of various dictionaries published under the name Webster.
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(in the plural) See words.
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A graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, sometimes used as part of a quiz or game, but sometimes just decorative
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The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc.
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(linguistics) An automatically generated, corpus-derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour.
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(computational linguistics) A vector of weights that represents a word in numerical form.
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The construction of words from simpler units.
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Alternative form of word cloud [A graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, sometimes used as part of a quiz or game, but sometimes just decorative]
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Alternative form of word count [The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc.]
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The process of finding the correct word when speaking or writing.
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Alternative form of word-hoard [Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.]
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(sciences) The length of a word.
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Word by word; one word at a time.
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(education) A random collection of words, used as inspiration for writing.
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The art or practice of shaping, forming, or creating words.
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Alternative form of word-stock [(linguistics) The vocabulary (set of words) of a language or dialect]
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(translation studies) Language that a translator or interpreter works with.
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(linguistics) pseudoword
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