division | the act or process of dividing |
syllabication syllabification | forming or dividing words into syllables |
word division hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
division partition partitioning segmentation sectionalization sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
word game | any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words |
word play | playing on words or speech sounds |
division | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication, the quotient of two numbers is computed |
long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
verbolatry grammatolatry word-worship | the worship of words |
division Archaebacteria | in some classifications considered a kingdom |
division Eubacteria | oneelled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
Cyanophyta division Cyanophyta | prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom, coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
Schizophyta division Schizophyta | former term for the Cyanophyta |
Protista division Protista | eukaryotic oneelled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae |
Heterokontophyta division Heterokontophyta | algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths, terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications |
Chrysophyta division Chrysophyta | mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment, yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |
Phaeophyta division Phaeophyta | coextensive with class Phaeophyceae, in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta |
Euglenophyta division Euglenophyta | free-swimming flagellate algae |
Chlorophyta division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls, classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae, obviously ancestral to land plants |
Rhodophyta division Rhodophyta | lower plants, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
Cynodontia division Cynodontia | a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth |
Dicynodontia division Dicynodontia | a division of Therapsida |
chic chicness chichi modishness smartness stylishness swank last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
crosslassification cross-division | classification according to more than one attribute at the same time, the crosslassification of cases was done by age and sex |
hairsplitting word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
part section division | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole, the written part of the exam, the finance section of the company, the BBC's engineering division |
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 |