The principal types of graphemes are logograms, which represent words or morphemes ( for example, Chinese characters, or the ampersand & representing the English word and ; also Arabic numerals ); syllabic characters, representing syllables ( as in Japanese kana ); and alphabetic letters, corresponding roughly to phonemes ( see next section ).

An ampersand ( or epershand ; "&") is a logogram representing the conjunction word " and ".

In such names, a comma never follows the word just before the ampersand.

* The ampersand in the title was created in 1955 by then Editor Terry Galanoy who replaced the word " and " in the magazine's name because the words Road and Track were graphically too long for newsstand-effective recognition.

* The use of the ampersand instead of the word ' and ' when he is using ' and ' as a word to connect two adjectives, such as, deranged & insane

Though most now know the title to be Tulips & Chimneys ( with an ampersand ), Cummings's original title request was disregarded by the publisher Thomas Seltzer, who changed the ampersand to the word " and.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

As it arises from a conflation with a Greek word, there is no corresponding verb.

It is also possible that the word is a product of conflation of the words gothic and Scandinavia.

Others, however, argue that, since both ( or all ) parts already exist in the English lexicon, such mixing is merely the conflation of two ( or more ) English morphemes in order to create an English neologism ( new word ), and so is appropriate.

Incongruent conflation occurs when the root expressions do not mean the same thing, but share a common word or theme.

The word sigel as a conflation of two words, the inherited word for Sun, the feminine sigel and an Old English neuter sigle or sygle for " jewel, necklace ", loaned from Latin sigilla.

According to an older hypothesis, the development of the word may also have been influenced by a conflation with the similar-sounding αμαρτωλός (' sinner '), which may have been associated with the topic of armed bands through phrases such as " αμαρτωλοί / αρματολοί και κλέφτες " ( meaning ' sinners and thieves ', but also ' armatoloi and klephts ').

In Polish " siksa " ( pronounced " s ' eeksa ") is a popular pejorative word for an immature young girl or teenage girl ( there is no masculine form ), as it is a conflation between the Yiddish term and usage of the Polish verb " sikać " (" to piss ", " to urinate ").

There are brain-wracking searches for the right word, the best phrase, the most helpful idea.

The lexical ambiguity of a word or phrase pertains to its having more than one meaning in the language to which the word belongs.

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.

Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase.

The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church.

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

The original word or phrase is known as the subject of the anagram.

Any word or phrase that exactly reproduces the letters in another order is an anagram.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

The program or server carries out an exhaustive search of a database of words, to produce a list containing every possible combination of words or phrases from the input word or phrase.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

the use of a sign, note, or mark for a word or phrase.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

In his 1534 translation, William Tyndale translated the phrase in Jonah 2: 1 as " greate fyshe ," and he translated the word ketos ( Greek ) or cetus ( Latin ) in as " whale ".

A code is a rule for converting a piece of information ( for example, a letter, word, phrase, or gesture ) into another form or representation ( one sign into another sign ), not necessarily of the same type.

Occasionally a code word achieves an independent existence ( and meaning ) while the original equivalent phrase is forgotten or at least no longer has the precise meaning attributed to the code word.

Codes operated by substituting according to a large codebook which linked a random string of characters or numbers to a word or phrase.