Definitions for Morphology
mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒimor·phol·o·gy

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1. morphologynoun

   the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants

2. morphologynoun

   studies of the rules for forming admissible words

3. morphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structurenoun

   the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

4. morphology, geomorphologynoun

   the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms

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1. Morphologynoun

   (Biol.) The form and structure of an organism.

2. Morphologynoun

   (Linguistics) The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.

3. Morphologynoun

   Specifically: The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.

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1. morphologynoun

   A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

2. morphologynoun

   The form and structure of something.

3. morphologynoun

   A description of the form and structure of something.

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1. morphology

   Morphology is a branch of biology that deals with the study of the forms and structures of living organisms. This includes aspects such as structure, shape, pattern and configuration of organisms and their specific structural features such as organs, tissues and cells. In a more general context, particularly in linguistics, morphology refers to the study of the structure and form of words in a particular language including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.

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1. Morphologynoun

   that branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology

2. Etymology: [Gr. morfh` form + -logy: cf. F. morphologie.]

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1. Morphology

   In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context. Morphological typology represents a method for classifying languages according to the ways by which morphemes are used in a language—from the analytic that use only isolated morphemes, through the agglutinative and fusional languages that use bound morphemes, up to the polysynthetic, which compress many separate morphemes into single words. While words are generally accepted as being the smallest units of syntax, it is clear that in most languages, if not all, words can be related to other words by rules. For example, English speakers recognize that the words dog and dogs are closely related—differentiated only by the plurality morpheme "-s", which is only found bound to nouns, and is never separate. Speakers of English recognize these relations from their tacit knowledge of the rules of word formation in English. They infer intuitively that dog is to dogs as cat is to cats; similarly, dog is to dog catcher as dish is to dishwasher, in one sense. The rules understood by the speaker reflect specific patterns, or regularities, in the way words are formed from smaller units and how those smaller units interact in speech. In this way, morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages, and attempts to formulate rules that model the knowledge of the speakers of those languages.

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1. • Biology
   • Geophysics
   • Grammar

How to pronounce Morphology?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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How to say Morphology in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Morphology in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Morphology in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Morphology in a Sentence

1. Talmy Givón:

   Today's syntax is tomorrow's morphology

2. Professor Auke Ijspeert:

   It's a key animal from an evolutionary point of view, it's older than crocodiles and dinosaurs; it's an amphibian. So if you look at the modern salamander, its morphology and body shape is very close to the fossils of the first terrestrial vertebrates. So by studying the modern salamander we have a time window to the ancestors of all terrestrial vertebrates, including humans.

3. Jakob Vinther:

   It is very unique. Most cloacas form a kind of slit. Sometimes it's a vertical split, sometimes it's a smiley face, sometimes it's a sour face. This thing has a V-shaped structure with a pair of nice flaring lips and there's not a living groups of animals that have morphology like that, it is somewhat similar to crocodiles but still unique.

4. Di Vincenzo:

   We have a nearly complete human fossil skeleton to describe and study in detail. It is a dream, his morphology offers a rare glimpse on the earliest phase of the evolutionary history of Neanderthals and on one of the most crucial events in human evolution. He can help us better understand when — and, in particular, how — Neanderthals evolved.

5. Kinberly Novaes:

   We did a morphology ultrasound last week, and the doctor said I’m 24 weeks pregnant— almost six months— and my baby is healthy and strong.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Morphology
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Morphology
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Morphology
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Morphology
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Morphology