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 blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.the act of blending components together thoroughly
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, 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 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 formation.the act of combining things to form a new whole
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base; "the morphological relation between ‘sing’ an…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions; "inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and ten…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, 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…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word formation.relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language
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An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scalige…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of sta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesobl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix denoting
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, that which relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence, dili…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A noun suffix having much the same meaning as -ence, but more commonly signifying the quality or state; as, emergency, efficiency. See…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.A suffix used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; as, warmer, sooner, lat(e)er, earl(y)ier.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, suffix.
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