word division hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
word game | any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words |
word play | playing on words or speech sounds |
whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
verbolatry grammatolatry word-worship | the worship of words |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
computer computing machine computing device data processor electronic computer information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
computer system computing system automatic data processing system ADP system ADPS | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
chic chicness chichi modishness smartness stylishness swank last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
width breadth | the extent of something from side to side |
hairsplitting word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
information science informatics information processing IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
natural language processing NLP human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
morphology sound structure syllable structure word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
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 |
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' |
blend portmanteau word portmanteau | a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings, `smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog', `motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel', `brunch' is a well-known portmanteau |
cognate cognate word | a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language |
content word openlass word | a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned |
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 |
dirty word | a word that is considered to be unmentionable, `failure' is a dirty word to him |
form word form signifier descriptor | 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 |
four-letter word four-letter Anglo-Saxon word | any of several short English words (often having letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive |
function word closedlass 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 head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
headword head word | a content word that can be qualified by a modifier |
hypernym superordinate superordinate word | a word that is more generic than a given word |
hyponym subordinate subordinate word | a word that is more specific than a given word |
key word | a significant word used in indexing or cataloging |
monosyllable monosyllabic word | a word or utterance of one syllable |
nonce word hapax legomenon | a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion |
ghost word | a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
citation form main entry word entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
polysemant polysemantic word polysemous word | a word having more than one meaning |
polysyllable polysyllabic word | a word of more than three syllables |
synonym equivalent word | two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context |
vocable spoken word | a word that is spoken aloud |
part of speech form class word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
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 order | the order of words in a text |
last word | an authoritative statement, my doctor has the last word on the medicines I take |
word finder wordfinder | a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of |
Bible Christian Bible Book Good Book Holy Scripture Holy Writ Scripture Word of God Word | the sacred writings of the Christian religions, he went to carry the Word to the heathen |
Word of God | the message of the Gospel of Christ |
key word | a word that is used as a pattern to decode an encrypted message |
natural language processor natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
word processor word processing system | an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer |
word meaning word sense acceptation | the accepted meaning of a word |