dash
(hyphen, dash)
Princeton's WordNet
a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
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hyphen
(hyphen, dash)
Princeton's WordNet
a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
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verbal
Webster Dictionary
having word answering to word. word for word. literal; as, a verbal translation
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derivative
Webster Dictionary
a word formed from another word. by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root
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preposition
Webster Dictionary
a word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word. a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word. -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running
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back-formation
(back-formation)
Princeton's WordNet
a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
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balagan
(balagan)
Princeton's WordNet
a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian)
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spell
(spell, write)
Princeton's WordNet
write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word.
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write
(spell, write)
Princeton's WordNet
write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word.
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reduplication
(reduplication)
Princeton's WordNet
a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word.
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extensional
(extensional)
Princeton's WordNet
defining a word by listing the class of entities to which the word correctly applies
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lexicalize
(lexicalize, lexicalise)
Princeton's WordNet
make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language
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lexicalise
(lexicalize, lexicalise)
Princeton's WordNet
make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language
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separative
(separative)
Princeton's WordNet
(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
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repetition
(repetition)
Princeton's WordNet
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
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cognate
(cognate, cognate word)
Princeton's WordNet
a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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cognate word
(cognate, cognate word)
Princeton's WordNet
a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
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anaphora
(anaphora)
Princeton's WordNet
using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier
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isolating
(isolating(a))
Princeton's WordNet
relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
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instantiate
(instantiate)
Princeton's WordNet
find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word.
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number
Webster Dictionary
the distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word. thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one
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enclitical
Webster Dictionary
affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word
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misplaced modifier
(dangling modifier, misplaced modifier)
Princeton's WordNet
a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'
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dangling modifier
(dangling modifier, misplaced modifier)
Princeton's WordNet
a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'
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derivative
(derivative)
Princeton's WordNet
(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word
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holonym
(holonym, whole name)
Princeton's WordNet
a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part
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whole name
(holonym, whole name)
Princeton's WordNet
a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part
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-cy
(kum)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a suffix of nouns denoting rank or office, sometimes attached to the stem of a word rather than to the word itself:
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prepositive
(ˈpɒz ɪ tɪv)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(of a word. particle, or affix) placed before a word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence.
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shortening
(ˈʃɔrt nɪŋ, ˈʃɔr tn ɪŋ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the act or process of dropping one or more syllables from a word or phrase to form a shorter word with the same meaning.
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