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…
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the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation.a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of ‘bets’ and ‘beds’ and ‘horses’ and ‘oxen’ are allomorphs of…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Roots and affixes, Word formation, Morphology.the act of attaching or affixing something
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, 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, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation, Morphology.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, 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, Roots and affixes, Word formation, Morphology.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation.a bound form used only in compounds; "‘hemato-’ is a combining form in words like ‘hematology’"
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Linguistics, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Morphology.the act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, 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, Roots and affixes, Word formation, Morphology.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, Roots and affixes, Word formation, Morphology.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation.the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have ‘-ism’ as an ending"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Linguistics, Roots and affixes, Word formation, Morphology.the act of fusing (or melting) together
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Roots and affixes, Greek and Latin origins, Word formation.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…
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(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(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: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(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: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(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: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.a grammar that is produced by descriptive linguistics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: linguistics, affixes, removed, thematic, vowels.
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