group
grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
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 |
| group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
| whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
verbolatry
grammatolatry
word-worship | the worship of words |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
Adapid
Adapid group | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, their descendents probably include the lemurs, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
Omomyid
Omomyid group | extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects, abundant in North America and Europetomillion years ago, probably gave rise to the tarsiers, some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins |
chic
chicness
chichi
modishness
smartness
stylishness
swank
last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
linkage group
linked genes | any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together, the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups |
ABO blood group system
ABO system
ABO group | a classification system for the antigens of human blood, used in blood transfusion therapy, four groups are A and B and AB and O |
hairsplitting
word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
group
mathematical group | a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse |
| group theory | the branch of mathematics dealing with groups |
Abelian group
commutative group | a group that satisfies the commutative law |
| group dynamics | the branch of social psychology that studies the psychodynamics of interaction in social groups |
morphology sound structure
syllable structure
word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
| words | language that is spoken or written, he has a gift for words, she put her thoughts into 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 |