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The word semantics itself denotes a range of ideas, from the popular to the highly technical.
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" The semantics of this Chinese word resemble English virtue, which developed from a ( now archaic ) sense of " inner potency " or " divine power " ( as in " healing virtue of a drug ") to the modern meaning of " moral excellence " or " goodness.
Within lexical semantics, especially as applied to computers, modeling word meaning is easier when a given word is understood in terms of related words ; semantic networks are therefore important in computational linguistics.
* Semantics – study of the meaning of words ( lexical semantics ) and fixed word combinations ( phraseology ), and how these combine to form the meanings of sentences
Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds ( phonology ), spelling patterns ( orthography ), word meaning ( semantics ), grammar ( syntax ) and patterns of word formation ( morphology ), all of which provide a necessary platform for reading fluency and comprehension.
Contemporary Icelandic-speakers can read Old Norse, which differs slightly in spelling as well as semantics and word order.
But that word can transmit that meaning only within the language's grammatical structures and codes ( see syntax and semantics ).
According to Charles W. Morris, pragmatics tries to understand the relationship between signs and their users, while semantics tends to focus on the actual objects or ideas to which a word refers, and syntax ( or " syntactics ") examines relationships among signs or symbols.
Besides basic properties of semantics, semantic property is also sometimes used to describe the semantic components of a word, such as man assuming that the referent is human, male, and adult, or female being a common component of girl, woman, and actress.
In the first sense-usage ( semantics and discourse analysis ), the word discourse is studied in corpus linguistics.
We should have done this before encouraging anyone to popularize or spread the word ( horrid phrase ) in societies for general semantics, by talking about general semantics instead of learning, using, etc.
In Ancient Egyptian, determinatives may have been used as much to demarcate word boundaries as to disambiguate the semantics of words.
Lexical semantics covers theories of the classification and decomposition of word meaning, the differences and similarities in lexical semantic structure between different languages, and the relationship of word meaning to sentence meaning and syntax.
Although grammar, semantics, vocabulary, and other language characteristics often vary concurrently with accent, the word ' accent ' refers specifically to the differences in pronunciation, whereas the word ' dialect ' encompasses the broader set of linguistic differences.
The word is an old Germani synonym for donkey ( compare similar semantics ).
Analysers like Lucene Snowball store the base stemmed format of the word without the knowledge of meaning, but taking into account the semantics of the word formation only.
LOTH implies that the mind has some tacit knowledge of the logical rules of inference and the linguistic rules of syntax ( sentence structure ) and semantics ( concept or word meaning ).
A fixed or prototypical word order is one out of many ways to ease the processing of sentence semantics and reducing ambiguity.
The English compound noun cellar door ( especially in its British pronunciation of ) is commonly used as an example of a word or phrase which is beautiful in terms of phonaesthetics ( i. e., sound ) with no regard for semantics ( i. e., meaning ).
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The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.
Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).
These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.
The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.
In category theory, an automorphism is an endomorphism ( i. e. a morphism from an object to itself ) which is also an isomorphism ( in the categorical sense of the word ).
For example, the word abbreviation can itself be represented by the abbreviation abbr., abbrv.
Abbreviations can also be used to give a different context to the word itself, such as " PIN Number " ( wherein if the abbreviation were removed the context would be invalid ).
The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα ( ankura ).
* In a version of Scrabble called Clabbers, the name itself being an anagram of Scrabble, tiles may be placed in any order on the board as long as they anagram to a valid word.
The word " furlong " itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.
Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".
French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.
The word comes from Old English " bōc " which ( itself ) comes from the Germanic root "* bōk -", cognate to beech.
The word bronze is borrowed from, itself borrowed from ( compare Medieval ), whose origin is unclear.
Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas.
The word " conservative " itself is a term of abuse in France.
The word ' catapult ' comes from the Latin ' catapulta ', which in turn comes from the Greek καταπέλτης ( katapeltēs ), itself from ( kata ), " downwards " + πάλλω ( pallō ), " to toss, to hurl ".
The word chaparral is a loan word from Spanish chaparro, meaning both " small " and " dwarf " evergreen oak, which itself comes from the Basque word txapar, with exactly the same meaning.
The word " corona " itself derived from the Latin, meaning crown, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κορώνη ( korōnē ) meaning " garland " or " wreath ".
As for the origin of the Sanskrit word itself there have been various theories proposed.
Based on what Krishnamurti states referring to a scholarly paper published in the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, the Sanskrit word itself is later than since the dates for the forms with-r-are centuries later than the dates for the forms without-r-(, -, damela-etc.
A recursive definition, sometimes also called an inductive definition, is one that defines a word in terms of itself, so to speak, albeit in a useful way.
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" Arbitrage " is a French word and denotes a decision by an arbitrator or arbitration tribunal.
The word consonant is also used to refer to a letter of an alphabet that denotes a consonant sound.
Dualism ( from the Latin word duo meaning " two ") denotes a state of two parts.
In Spanish, the grapheme ñ is considered a new letter different from n and collated between n and o, as it denotes a different sound from that of a plain n. But the accented vowels á, é, í, ó, ú are not separated from the unaccented vowels a, e, i, o, u, as the acute accent in Spanish only modifies stress within the word or denotes a distinction between homonyms, and does not modify the sound of a letter.
Here highbit ( S ) denotes the most significant bit of S ; the '< tt >*</ tt >' operator denotes unsigned integer multiplication with lost overflow ; '< tt >^</ tt >' is the bitwise exclusive or operation applied to words ; and P is a suitable fixed word.
The theological use of the word denotes the interpretation of biblical prophecy as being related to church history.
The # follows standard practice in denoting a word boundary ; that is, # at the beginning denotes word-initial.
The word laser started as an acronym for " light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation "; in modern usage " light " broadly denotes electromagnetic radiation of any frequency, not only visible light, hence infrared laser, ultraviolet laser, X-ray laser, and so on.
The word lithography also denotes photolithography, a microfabrication technique used in the microelectronics industry to make integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems.
So metasyntactic variable denotes a word that " transcends grammar and can assume a value " or one that is " more comprehensive than suggested by its grammatical arrangement and is likely to vary ".
The three-word English phrase, " with his club ", where ' with ' identifies its dependent noun phrase as an instrument and ' his ' denotes a possession relation, would consist of two words or even just one word in many languages.
or not it denotes time depends on use of the word " Just "; IE, not including " just " denotes speed, whereas using " Just " denotes time
In English Reich is sometimes used as a loan word, which denotes a historical national state of Germany.
This word has two levels of meaning: ( 1 ) on the ideal ( arya ) level, it denotes all of the Buddha ’ s followers, lay or ordained, who have at least attained the level of srotapanna ; ( 2 ) on the conventional ( samvtri ) level, it denotes the orders of the Bhiksus and Bhiksunis ”
The name Segway is a homophone of the word segue, meaning " smooth transition "; PT denotes " personal transporter ".
Further, the use of the word attempt in Paragraph 6 denotes future action and cannot be construed to justify territorial redress for past action.
In rabbinic literature the word Torah denotes both these five books, Torah Shebichtav ( תורה שבכתב, " Torah that is written "), and an Oral Torah, Torah Shebe ' al Peh ( תורה שבעל פה, " Torah that is spoken ").
This led the 3rd General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) of 1901 to officially declare " The word weight denotes a quantity of the same nature as a force: the weight of a body is the product of its mass and the acceleration due to gravity ", thus distinguishing it from mass for official usage.
The portmanteau word wigger ( white + nigger ) denotes a white person emulating " street black behavior ", hoping acceptance to the hip hop, thug, and gangsta sub-cultures.
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