A word which is difficult to understand or spell. In early use also: †a statement which is difficult to interpret (cf. word, n. 1a) (obsolete).
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| 释义 | the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word (31) hard word1533 A word which is difficult to understand or spell. In early use also: †a statement which is difficult to interpret (cf. word, n. 1a) (obsolete). household word1574 a word, phrase, or saying in familiar use; a well-known name, person, or thing. magic word1581 (a) a word supposed to produce effects by magic; (in plural) the words comprising an incantation or spell; (b) any word or (in plural) phrase… grandam words1598 old or obsolete words. signal word1645 a word used as a signal; spec. a word printed on the packaging of a hazardous material to indicate the degree of toxicity. book worda1670 wordie1718 A word, esp. a little or slight one. my whole1777 my whole: (in a riddle or charade) the complete word which the individual syllables described or represented (called my first, my second, etc.)… foundling1827–38 figurative. keyword1827 A word (usually one of several) chosen to indicate or represent the content of a larger document, text, record, etc., in an index, catalogue, or… Mesopotamia1827 Used as the type of a word which is long, pleasant-sounding, and incomprehensible (see quot. 1870). Hence used allusively of any speech which… thought-word1844 a word conceived in the mind but not uttered. word-symbol1852 a word used as or taking the form of a sign or symbol; spec. = logogram, n. 2b. nursery word1853 a nonstandard word used by or to a child. pivot word1865 A word crucial to the meaning or structure of a sentence, paragraph, etc. rattler1865 colloquial. A particularly long word. Obsolete. rare. object word1876 (a) gen. a word which designates an object (in various senses); (b) Philosophy (in the theories of Bertrand Russell) a word the meaning of which… pillow word1877 In Japanese classical verse: a decorative word or short phrase placed before a name or other word, for the sake of imagery, euphony, metre, or… nonce-word1884 a word apparently used only ‘for the nonce’, i.e. on one specific occasion or in one specific text or writer's works. non-word1893 A thing that is not a word; spec. an unrecorded or hitherto unused word; a word which has (or is regarded as having) no accepted meaning. fossil1901 Linguistics. A word or other linguistic form which has become obsolete except in isolated regions or in set phrases, idioms, or collocations. blessed word1910 (applied to) a long and high-sounding word, erroneously or ironically taken to be of great significance. Cf. Mesopotamia, n. 2. bogy-word1919 attributive and in other combinations, as bogy-man, bogy-word, etc. catch-all1922 fig. A word or phrase which is used to refer, in a non-specific way, to a range of things or different elements. pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 a word or expression in one language which has the same or similar form in another, but which does not have a corresponding meaning (for example… plus word1939 (a) a word with positive or desirable connotations; (b) (in stylometric analysis) a word which is characteristic of its author, or which is used… descriptor1946 Linguistics, Semiotics, and Philosophy. In various classifications of linguistic or semiotic units: a word, expression, sign, etc., which has a… meta-word1952 Originally (Linguistics): a word which describes, classifies, or refers to another word. Also (in extended use) (Computing): a word which has… discourse marker1967 a word or phrase whose function is to organize discourse into segments and situate a clause, sentence, etc., within a larger context. shrub2008 A word in another language pronounced in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue. Often in plural. |
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