Vi fant 15 definisjoner av word på engelsk.
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| word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" | ||
| language unit, linguistic unit one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed | ||
| anagram a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | ||
| anaphor a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent | ||
| antonym, opposite word, opposite a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'" | ||
| back-formation a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it | ||
| charade a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades | ||
| cognate word, cognate a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | ||
| content word, open-class word a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned | ||
| contraction the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | ||
| deictic, deictic word a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit | ||
| derivative (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'" | ||
| diminutive a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | ||
| dirty word a word that is considered to be unmentionable; "`failure' is a dirty word to him" | ||
| dissyllable, disyllable a word having two syllables | ||
| signifier, word form, descriptor, form a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | ||
| four-letter anglo-saxon word, four-letter word any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive | ||
| closed-class word, function word a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning | ||
| guide word, guideword, catchword a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | ||
| head word, head a single domestic animal; "200 head of cattle" | ||
| headword a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) | ||
| heteronym two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; "the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym" | ||
| holonym, whole name a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part; "`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'" | ||
| homonym two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings | ||
| hypernym, superordinate word, superordinate a word that is more generic than a given word | ||
| hyponym, subordinate word, subordinate a word that is more specific than a given word | ||
| key word a significant word used in indexing or cataloging | ||
| loan-blend, loanblend, hybrid a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) | ||
| loanword, loan a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English | ||
| meronym, part name a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'" | ||
| metonym a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card" | ||
| monosyllabic word, monosyllable a word or utterance of one syllable | ||
| neologism, neology, coinage the act of inventing a word or phrase | ||
| hapax legomenon, nonce word a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion | ||
| oxytone word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable | ||
| palindrome a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | ||
| primitive a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived" | ||
| paroxytone word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable | ||
| partitive word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | ||
| polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word a word having more than one meaning | ||
| polysyllabic word, polysyllable a word of more than three syllables | ||
| proparoxytone word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult | ||
| quantifier (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | ||
| logical quantifier, quantifier (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | ||
| reduplication the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | ||
| retronym a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym" | ||
| substantive any word or group of words functioning as a noun | ||
| equivalent word, synonym two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context | ||
| term any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree" | ||
| nomenclature, terminology, language a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology" | ||
| trisyllable a word having three syllables | ||
| manner name, troponym a word that denotes a manner of doing something; "`march' is a troponym of `walk'" | ||
| spoken word, vocable a word that is spoken aloud | ||
| syllable a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables" | ||
| affix a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form | ||
| classifier a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | ||
| written word the written form of a word; "while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something"; "a craftsman of the written word" | ||
| word - a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long" | ||
| kib, kibibyte, kilobyte, kb, k a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes | ||
| computer memory unit a unit for measuring computer memory | ||
| word - a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it" | ||
| statement a document showing credits and debits | ||
| word - a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!" | ||
| word - the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" | ||
| Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word | ||
| religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity | ||
| family bible a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births | ||
| old testament the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible | ||
| testament a profession of belief; "he stated his political testament" | ||
| new testament the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible | ||
| text the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text" | ||
| word - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" | ||
| discussion, give-and-take | ||
| oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication, language, speech the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" | ||
| argumentation, debate, argument a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of reasoning" | ||
| deliberation the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision; "he was a man of judicial deliberation" | ||
| group discussion, conference a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | ||
| panel discussion discussion of a subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel usually before an audience | ||
| post-mortem, postmortem discussion of an event after it has occurred | ||
| public discussion, ventilation free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest; "such a proposal deserves thorough public discussion" | ||
| word - information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" | ||
| news, intelligence, tidings | ||
| info, information (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" | ||
| good word good news | ||
| latest the most recent news or development; "have you heard the latest?" | ||
| word - the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) | ||
| Son, Word, Logos | ||
| word - a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password" | ||
| password, watchword, parole, countersign | ||
| positive identification evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance; "a system for positive identification can prevent the use of a single identity by several people" | ||
| word - a promise; "he gave his word" | ||
| parole, word of honor | ||
