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the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
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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: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.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: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of attaching or affixing something
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.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: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.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: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended; "the confusion of tongues at the To…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of combining into an integral whole; "a consolidation of two corporations"; "after their consolidation the two bills were pass…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.(linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "‘electricity’ is a derivative of ‘electric’"
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of fusing (or melting) together
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a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of ‘bets’ and ‘beds’ and ‘horses’ and ‘oxen’ are allomorphs of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch wav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertica…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.
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