| 单词 | linguistic unit |
| 释义 | linguistic unit (once / 5909656 pages) n WORD FAMILY linguistic unit USAGE EXAMPLESIt probably was not large, and very likely formed a compact racial and linguistic unit for centuries, possibly for thousands of years. Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), New Latin Grammar(2010) n one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed Syn|Hypo|Hyper language unit discourse extended verbal expression in speech or writing worda unit of language that native speakers can identify syllablea unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme lexemea minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go' morphememinimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units formativeminimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function namea language unit by which a person or thing is known collocationa grouping of words in a sentence phone, sound, speech sound(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language signa fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified context, context of use, linguistic contextdiscourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation anagrama word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase anaphora word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent antonym, opposite, opposite worda word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other back-formationa word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it charadea word acted out in an episode of the game of charades cognate, cognate worda word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language content word, open-class worda word to which an independent meaning can be assigned contractiona word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds deictic, deictic worda word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs derivative(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word diminutivea word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness dirty worda word that is considered to be unmentionable dissyllable, disyllablea word having two syllables descriptor, form, signifier, word formthe phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something four-letter Anglo-Saxon word, four-letter wordany of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive closed-class word, function worda word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning catchword, guide word, guideworda word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page head, head word(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent headworda word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) heteronymtwo words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation holonym, whole namea word that names the whole of which a given word is a part homonymtwo words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings hypernym, superordinate, superordinate worda word that is more generic than a given word hyponym, subordinate, subordinate worda word that is more specific than a given word key worda significant word used in indexing or cataloging hybrid, loan-blend, loanblenda word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) loan, loanworda word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English meronym, part namea word that names a part of a larger whole metonyma word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing monosyllabic word, monosyllablea word or utterance of one syllable coinage, neologism, neologya newly invented word or phrase hapax legomenon, nonce worda word with a special meaning used for a special occasion oxytoneword having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable palindromea word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward primitivea word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms paroxytoneword having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable partitiveword (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous worda word having more than one meaning polysyllabic word, polysyllablea word of more than three syllables proparoxytoneword having stress or acute accent on the antepenult quantifier(grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') logical quantifier, quantifier(logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition reduplicationa word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) retronyma word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate substantiveany word or group of words functioning as a noun equivalent word, synonymtwo words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context terma word or expression used for some particular thing language, nomenclature, terminologya system of words used to name things in a particular discipline trisyllablea word having three syllables manner name, troponyma word that denotes a manner of doing something spoken word, vocablea word that is spoken aloud ultimathe last syllable in a word penult, penultima, penultimatethe next to last syllable in a word antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimatethe 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end reduplicationthe syllable added in a reduplicated word form allomorpha variant phonological representation of a morpheme free form, free morphemea morpheme that can occur alone bound form, bound morphemea morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns classifiera word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs ending, terminationthe end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme) agnomenan additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great') DBA, Doing Business As, assumed name, fictitious name(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation eponymthe name derived from a person (real or imaginary) eponymthe person for whom something is named computer file name, computer filename, file name, filename(computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file patronym, patronymica family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) matronymic, metronymica name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor street namethe name of a street street namethe name of a brokerage firm in which stock is held on behalf of a customer street nameslang for something (especially for an illegal drug) cognomen, family name, last name, surnamethe name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) middle namea name between your first name and your surname first name, forename, given namethe name that precedes the surname nicknamea descriptive name for a place or thing alias, assumed name, false namea name that has been assumed temporarily anonym, nom de guerre, pseudonyma fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role misnomeran incorrect or unsuitable name author's name, writer's namethe name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work appellation, appellative, denomination, designationidentifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others hypocorism, pet namea name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix) titlethe name of a work of art or literary composition etc. place name, toponymthe name by which a geographical place is known written wordthe written form of a word signatureyour name written in your own handwriting syncategorem, syncategoremea syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition company namethe name by which a corporation is identified domain namestrings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet brand, brand name, marque, trade namea name given to a product or service solfa syllableone of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization phoneme(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language vowel, vowel sounda speech sound made with the vocal tract open glide, semivowela vowellike sound that serves as a consonant consonanta speech sound that is not a vowel orinasal, orinasal phonea speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) sonant, voiced sounda speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords component, component part, constituent, part, portion something determined in relation to something that includes it |
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