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 |
chic chicness chichi modishness smartness stylishness swank last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
code of conduct code of behavior | a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group |
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 |
code | a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy |
access access code | a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) |
area code | a number usually of digits assigned to a telephone area as in the United States and Canada |
bar code Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
color code | system using colors to designate classifications |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
Morse Morse code international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
ZIP code ZIP postcode postal code | a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail |
code computer code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
binary code | code using a string of binary digits to represent characters |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
machine code machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
object code | the machine-language output of a compiler that is ready for execution on a particular computer |
operation code order code | the portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed, the set of operations in a computer |