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 |
foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
verbolatry grammatolatry word-worship | the worship of words |
foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
chic chicness chichi modishness smartness stylishness swank last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
hairsplitting word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
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 |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
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 |
word salad | jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia |
farewell word of farewell | an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting |
news intelligence tidings word | information about recent and important events, they awaited news of the outcome |
good word | good news |