the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
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Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure, Stylistics.Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing som…
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Stylistics.the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Stylistics.the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Stylistics.The quality or state of being parallel.
Used in the same subject area: Literature and rhetoric, Stylistics.Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the v…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.the object that receives the direct action of the verb
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Sentence structure.(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
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The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sente…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.A leaf of a book or manuscript.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.(linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammatical, arrangement, words, sentences.(linguistics) The characteristic of a noun, in some languages, that is dependent on its unliving or non-sentient nature; this characte…
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