the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he ha…
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Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
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satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.so similar as to be easily identified for another thing; "potentially confusable senses of words"; "easily mistakable signals"
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage; "descri…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he ha…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the discipline that studies the English language and literature
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he ha…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.so similar as to be easily identified for another thing; "potentially confusable senses of words"; "easily mistakable signals"
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers…
Used in the same subject area: Usage and confusables, Spelling and grammar.pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
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gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave devel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or pos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave devel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the dist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave devel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consisting, acquired, immemorial, long-continued, enjoyment.
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