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Someone who uses, or makes up, acronyms.
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A person who composes anagrams.
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(rare) Personal address via apostrophe (an exclamatory speech).
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(linguistics) A word that is borrowed into a vernacular from a closely related literary language, thus being etymologically related to native vocabulary, but not showing regular sound changes.
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(web design, usually derogatory) The practice of authoring stylesheets with redundant and semantically unhelpful classes.
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(linguistics) A language that has no living speakers, though a number of productions of its native speakers have been preserved in some way, usually in written records.
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(lexicography) A restricted set of words used to define all other terms in a dictionary.
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(literary criticism) The inalienable connectedness of a text to other texts and the wider social context.
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A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.
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Obsolete spelling of dictionary. [A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.]
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(obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of dictionary. [A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.]
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(uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
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(in a dual-language dictionary) A list of words in one language together with, for each word, a list of words (or glosses) in the second language that have the same or related meanings.
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(linguistics) A list of the most commonly used words, or phrases, in a particular language, corpus, etc.
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A list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with their definitions.
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Abbreviation of grammar. [A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.]
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(semiotics) An earlier text which serves as the source of a subsequent piece of literature.
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Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
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(sciences) Words used in various languages with similar meanings and pronunciations with the purpose of internationalizing scientific progress.
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the study in literature of juxtaposition in text and semantics.
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(uncountable) Manner of expression.
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(philosophy) A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.
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A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
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Any of several related artificial languages, designed to be logical, the first of which was developed by James Cooke Brown in the mid-20th century.
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(linguistics) A variant form of language spread by the press, radio, TV etc.
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A collection of rules followed by a set of names which allow users to deduce useful information, based on the names' character sequence and knowledge of the rules followed; such as Manhattan's East-West streets being called "Streets" and its North-South streets being called "Avenues".
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A pseudonym used while travelling.
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(philosophy) A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
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The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
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(rare) A word list that describes its own letter frequencies.
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(linguistics) The continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences.
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Alternative form of sim-com [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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(uncountable) Constructed language created by Charles Kay Ogden which restricts itself to simple words and only contains a small number of words
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(rare) A publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.
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Relating to textualism.
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Of or related to textualism.
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(linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
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A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
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The study of the theory and practice of translating and interpreting, especially in an academic context, combining elements of social science and the humanities. More commonly known as translation studies or translatology.
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(linguistics) The process of sending and receiving messages with words, including writing and sign language.
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The manner in which something is expressed in words.
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(informal) Vocabulary, especially that acquired while learning a language.
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(in combination) Having a vocabulary (of a specified kind or size).
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A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
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An ordinary dictionary word, as opposed to a name or neologism
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(dated) An orthographic convention due to Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer and spelling reformer.
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Alternative form of wordlist [A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.]
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Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
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(linguistics) The vocabulary (set of words) of a language or dialect
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The excessive use of words; verbiage.
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A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
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The art of using words to form representations or images.
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