substitution frame
Linguistics
noun
A structural environment, such as a short phrase or sentence featuring a blank element instead of a word, within which a number of words or other linguistic units of a particular class can be correctly used.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Kenneth Pike (1912–2000).
- theta role
- the Tasman
- the Tatras
- the Temptation
- the Tempter
- the Theocracy
- the thick end of something
- the thin blue line
- the thin end of the wedge
- the three Es
- the Three Graces
- the three Rs
- the thrill of the chase
- the time of one's life
- the Times
- the tip of an (or the) iceberg
- the tip of the iceberg
- Thetis
- the top of the tree
- the Tower
- the Transvaal
- the Trek
- the Trinity
- the triple jump
- the Troubles