the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…
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a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word; "‘NATO’ is an initialism for North…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Word formation.a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "‘smog’ is a blend of ‘smoke’ and ‘fog’"; "‘motel’ is a portmant…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted i…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Etymology, Historical word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Etymology, Historical word formation, Word formation.a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Etymology, Historical word formation, Word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Historical word formation, Word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Historical linguistics, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Etymology, Historical word formation, Word formation.(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Etymology, Historical word formation.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Used in the same subject area: Historical linguistics, Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Etymology, Historical word formation, Word formation.the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syl…
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The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.(linguistics) any vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.; "In practice, unround…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.the art of modeling in wax.; "Although too late in date for Piranesi to have been directly influenced by this set, the Italian origins…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.(linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctiv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: historical, linguistics, explanation, origins, phrase.The history of where a word came from and how it changed.
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