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Noun

How do you spell that word?

“Please” is a useful word.

Our teacher often used words I didn’t know.

What is the French word for car?

Describe the experience in your own words.

The lawyer used Joe’s words against him.

She gave the word to begin.

We will wait for your word before we serve dinner.

Verb

Could we word the headline differently?

tried to word the declaration exactly right

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Although
the borderline between various linguistic units is not always sharp
and clear, we shall try to define every new term on its first
appearance at once simply and unambiguously, if not always very
rigorously. The approximate definition of the term word
has already been given in the opening page of the book.

The
important point to remember about
definitions
is that they should indicate the most essential characteristic
features of the notion expressed by the term under discussion, the
features by which this notion is distinguished from other similar
notions. For instance, in defining the word one must distinguish it
from other linguistic units, such as the phoneme, the morpheme, or
the word-group. In contrast with a definition, a description
aims at enumerating all the essential features of a notion.

To
make things easier we shall begin by a preliminary description,
illustrating it with some examples.

The
word
may be described as the basic unit of language. Uniting meaning and
form, it is composed of one or more morphemes, each consisting of one
or more spoken sounds or their written representation. Morphemes as
we have already said are also meaningful units but they cannot be
used independently, they are always parts of words whereas words can
be used as a complete utterance (e. g. Listen!).
The
combinations of morphemes within words are subject to certain linking
conditions. When a derivational affix is added a new word is formed,
thus, listen
and
listener
are
different words. In fulfilling different grammatical functions words
may take functional affixes: listen
and
listened
are
different forms of the same word. Different forms of the same word
can be also built analytically with the help of auxiliaries. E.g.:
The
world should listen then as I am listening now (Shelley).

When
used in sentences together with other words they are syntactically
organised. Their freedom of entering into syntactic constructions is
limited by many factors, rules and constraints (e. g.: They
told me this story but
not *They
spoke me this story).

The
definition of every basic notion is a very hard task: the definition
of a word is one of the most difficult in linguistics because the

simplest
word has many different aspects. It has a sound form because it is a
certain arrangement of phonemes; it has its morphological structure,
being also a certain arrangement of morphemes; when used in actual
speech, it may occur in different word forms, different syntactic
functions and signal various meanings. Being the central element of
any language system, the word is a sort of focus for the problems of
phonology, lexicology, syntax, morphology and also for some other
sciences that have to deal with language and speech, such as
philosophy and psychology, and probably quite a few other branches of
knowledge. All attempts to characterise the word are necessarily
specific for each domain of science and are therefore considered
one-sided by the representatives of all the other domains and
criticised for incompleteness. The variants of definitions were so
numerous that some authors (A. Rossetti, D.N. Shmelev) collecting
them produced works of impressive scope and bulk.

A
few examples will suffice to show that any definition is conditioned
by the aims and interests of its author.

Thomas
Hobbes (1588-1679),
one
of the great English philosophers, revealed a materialistic approach
to the problem of nomination when he wrote that words are not mere
sounds but names of matter. Three centuries later the great Russian
physiologist I.P. Pavlov (1849-1936)
examined
the word in connection with his studies of the second signal system,
and defined it as a universal signal that can substitute any other
signal from the environment in evoking a response in a human
organism. One of the latest developments of science and engineering
is machine translation. It also deals with words and requires a
rigorous definition for them. It runs as follows: a word is a
sequence of graphemes which can occur between spaces, or the
representation of such a sequence on morphemic level.

Within
the scope of linguistics the word has been defined syntactically,
semantically, phonologically and by combining various approaches.

It
has been syntactically defined for instance as “the minimum
sentence” by H. Sweet and much later by L. Bloomfield as “a
minimum free form”. This last definition, although structural in
orientation, may be said to be, to a certain degree, equivalent to
Sweet’s, as practically it amounts to the same thing: free forms
are later defined as “forms which occur as sentences”.

E.
Sapir takes into consideration the syntactic and semantic aspects
when he calls the word “one of the smallest completely satisfying
bits of isolated ‘meaning’, into which the sentence resolves
itself”. Sapir also points out one more, very important
characteristic of the word, its indivisibility:
“It cannot be cut into without a disturbance of meaning, one or two
other or both of the several parts remaining as a helpless waif on
our hands”. The essence of indivisibility will be clear from a
comparison of the article a
and
the prefix a-
in
a
lion and
alive.
A lion is
a word-group because we can separate its elements and insert other
words between them: a
living lion, a dead lion. Alive is
a word: it is indivisible, i.e. structurally impermeable: nothing can
be inserted between its elements. The morpheme a-
is
not free, is not a word. The

situation
becomes more complicated if we cannot be guided by solid spelling.’
“The Oxford English Dictionary», for instance, does not
include the
reciprocal pronouns each
other and
one
another under
separate headings, although
they should certainly be analysed as word-units, not as word-groups
since they have become indivisible: we now say with
each other and
with
one another instead
of the older forms one
with another or
each
with the other.¹

Altogether
is
one word according to its spelling, but how is one to treat all
right, which
is rather a similar combination?

When
discussing the internal cohesion of the word the English linguist
John Lyons points out that it should be discussed in terms of two
criteria “positional
mobility”
and
“uninterruptability”.
To illustrate the first he segments into morphemes the following
sentence:

the
—
boy
—
s
—
walk
—
ed
—
slow
—
ly
—
up
—
the
—
hill

The
sentence may be regarded as a sequence of ten morphemes, which occur
in a particular order relative to one another. There are several
possible changes in this order which yield an acceptable English
sentence:

slow
—
ly
—
the
—
boy
—
s
—
walk
—
ed
—
up
—
the
—
hill
up —
the
—
hill
—
slow
—
ly
—
walk
—
ed
—
the
—
boy
—
s

Yet
under all the permutations certain groups of morphemes behave as
‘blocks’ —
they
occur always together, and in the same order relative to one another.
There is no possibility of the sequence s
—
the
—
boy,
ly —
slow,
ed —
walk.
“One
of the characteristics of the word is that it tends to be internally
stable (in terms of the order of the component morphemes), but
positionally mobile (permutable with other words in the same
sentence)”.²

A
purely semantic treatment will be found in Stephen Ullmann’s
explanation: with him connected discourse, if analysed from the
semantic point of view, “will fall into a certain number of
meaningful segments which are ultimately composed of meaningful
units. These meaningful units are called words.»³

The
semantic-phonological approach may be illustrated by A.H.Gardiner’s
definition: “A word is an articulate sound-symbol in its aspect of
denoting something which is spoken about.»⁴

The
eminent French linguist A. Meillet (1866-1936)
combines
the semantic, phonological and grammatical criteria and advances a
formula which underlies many subsequent definitions, both abroad and
in our country, including the one given in the beginning of this
book: “A word is defined by the association of a particular meaning
with a

¹Sapir
E. Language.
An Introduction to the Study of Speech. London, 1921,
P.
35.

²Lyons,
John. Introduction
to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1969.
P. 203.

³Ullmann
St. The
Principles of Semantics. Glasgow, 1957.
P.
30.

⁴Gardiner
A.H. The
Definition of the Word and the Sentence //
The
British Journal of Psychology. 1922.
XII.
P. 355
(quoted
from: Ullmann
St.,
Op.
cit., P. 51).

particular
group of sounds capable of a particular grammatical employment.»¹

This
definition does not permit us to distinguish words from phrases
because not only child,
but
a
pretty child as
well are combinations of a particular group of sounds with a
particular meaning capable of a particular grammatical employment.

We
can, nevertheless, accept this formula with some modifications,
adding that a word is the smallest significant unit of a given
language capable of functioning alone and characterised by positional
mobility
within
a sentence, morphological
uninterruptability
and semantic
integrity.²
All these criteria are necessary because they permit us to create a
basis for the oppositions between the word and the phrase, the word
and the phoneme, and the word and the morpheme: their common feature
is that they are all units of the language, their difference lies in
the fact that the phoneme is not significant, and a morpheme cannot
be used as a complete utterance.

Another
reason for this supplement is the widespread scepticism concerning
the subject. It has even become a debatable point whether a word is a
linguistic unit and not an arbitrary segment of speech. This opinion
is put forth by S. Potter, who writes that “unlike a phoneme or a
syllable, a word is not a linguistic unit at all.»³
He calls it a conventional and arbitrary segment of utterance, and
finally adopts the already mentioned
definition of L. Bloomfield. This position is, however, as
we have already mentioned, untenable, and in fact S. Potter himself
makes ample use of the word as a unit in his linguistic analysis.

The
weak point of all the above definitions is that they do not establish
the relationship between language and thought, which is formulated if
we treat the word as a dialectical unity of form and content, in
which the form is the spoken or written expression which calls up a
specific meaning, whereas the content is the meaning rendering the
emotion or the concept in the mind of the speaker which he intends to
convey to his listener.

Summing
up our review of different definitions, we come to the conclusion
that they are bound to be strongly dependent upon the line of
approach, the aim the scholar has in view. For a comprehensive word
theory, therefore, a description seems more appropriate than a
definition.

The
problem of creating a word theory based upon the materialistic
understanding of the relationship between word and thought on the one
hand, and language and society, on the other, has been one of the
most discussed for many years. The efforts of many eminent scholars
such as V.V. Vinogradov, A. I. Smirnitsky, O.S. Akhmanova, M.D.
Stepanova, A.A. Ufimtseva —
to
name but a few, resulted in throwing light

¹Meillet
A. Linguistique
historique et linguistique generate. Paris,
1926.
Vol.
I. P. 30.

²It
might be objected that such words as articles, conjunctions and a few
other words
never occur as sentences, but they are not numerous and could be
collected into a
list of exceptions.

³See:
Potter
S. Modern
Linguistics. London, 1957.
P.
78.

on this problem and achieved a
clear presentation of the word as a basic unit of the language. The
main points may now be summarised.

The
word
is the
fundamental
unit
of language.
It is a dialectical
unity
of form
and
content.
Its content or meaning is not identical to notion, but it may reflect
human notions, and in this sense may be considered as the form of
their existence. Concepts fixed in the meaning of words are formed as
generalised and approximately correct reflections of reality,
therefore in signifying them words reflect reality in their content.

The
acoustic aspect of the word serves to name objects of reality, not to
reflect them. In this sense the word may be regarded as a sign. This
sign, however, is not arbitrary but motivated by the whole process of
its development. That is to say, when a word first comes into
existence it is built out of the elements already available in the
language and according to the existing patterns.

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[ˌdefɪ’nɪʃ(ə)n]

сущ.

1) определение, формулирование ; дефиниция, формулировка

to formulate / give / provide / write a definition — дать определение

In any «persuasive definition» the term defined is a familiar one, whose meaning is both descriptive and strongly emotive. — В любом «стимулирующем определении» термин является общеизвестным, но к его описательному определению добавляется эмотивное значение.

Stipulative definition refers to a meaning a speaker attaches to a word, expression, or symbol that usually doesn’t already have an established use in the sense intended. — Условное определение — это значение, которое говорящий сам приписывает слову, выражению или знаку, это значение «по определению»; до этого данное слово или выражение в таком значении не употреблялось.

Real definition provides a statement of the nature or essence of a thing. — Реальное определение описывает предмет через его существенные свойства.

Syn:

2) отчётливость, разборчивость; ясность, понятность

Syn:

3)

;

тлв.

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ˌdefɪˈnɪʃən сущ.
1) а) определение, формулирование (процесс) б) дефиниция, формулировка to formulate, give, provide, write a definition ≈ дать определение dictionary definition ≈ словарное определение formulaic definition ≈ стандартное определение persuasive definition ≈ стимулирующее, побуждающее определение referential definition ≈ определение-ссылка stipulative definition ≈ условное определение synonym definition ≈ определение через синоним real definition ≈ реальное определение Syn: explanation
2) отчетливость, разборчивость;
ясность, понятность Syn: clarity, clearness
3) радио;
тлв. резкость, четкость
определение, дефиниция;
толкование — clear * ясное определение — the * of the term определение термина — problem * постановка задачи, формулировка задачи — to give a * дать определение — actions that fall under the * of murder действия, которые квалифицируются как убийство ясность, четкость;
определенность — an emotion beyond * неясное /неосознанное/ чувство (радиотехника) ясная слышимость, отсутствие помех( фотографическое) (телевидение) четкость, резкость изображения — negative with fine * четкий негатив — bad * нечеткость изображения
cell ~ вчт. определение ячейки
conceptual ~ вчт. концептуальное описание
data ~ вчт. определение данных
definition дефиниция ~ описание ~ определение ~ определенность ~ радио, тлв. резкость, четкость ~ толкование ~ четкость ~ ясность, четкость ~ ясность
~ of items определение подробностей
~ of limits страх. определение пределов
explicit ~ вчт. явное определение
external ~ вчт. внешнее определение
generic ~ вчт. видовое определение
implicit ~ вчт. неявное определение
interface ~ вчт. описание сопряжений
job ~ вчт. описание задания job ~ описание рабочего задания
object ~ вчт. определение объекта
policy ~ вчт. выработка стратегии
problem ~ вчт. постановка задания problem ~ вчт. постановка задачи
recursive ~ вчт. рекурсивное задание
statutory ~ законодательное толкование
system ~ вчт. описание системы

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1. n определение, дефиниция; толкование

2. n ясность, чёткость; определённость

3. n радио ясная слышимость, отсутствие помех

4. n тлв. фото, чёткость, резкость изображения

Синонимический ряд:

1. delineation (noun) certification; circumscription; clarity; delineation; demarcation; determination; determining the boundary; distinctness; encompassment; outlining; surveying

2. meaning (noun) analogue; denotation; explanation; explication; formalization; interpretation; meaning; sense; signification; synonym; terminology

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определение, принятое в данной области техники

* * *

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If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

PRONUNCIATION OF DICTIONARY DEFINITION

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DICTIONARY DEFINITION

Dictionary definition is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DICTIONARY DEFINITION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lexical definition

The lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is the meaning of the term in common usage. As its other name implies, this is the sort of definition one is likely to find in the dictionary. A lexical definition is usually the type expected from a request for definition, and it is generally expected that such a definition will be stated as simply as possible in order to convey information to the widest audience. Note that a lexical definition is descriptive, reporting actual usage within speakers of a language, and changes with changing usage of the term, rather than prescriptive, which would be to stick with a version regarded as «correct», regardless of drift in accepted meaning. They tend to be inclusive, attempting to capture everything the term is used to refer to, and as such are often too vague for many purposes. When the breadth or vagueness of a lexical definition is unacceptable, a precising definition or a stipulative definition is often used. Words can be classified as lexical or nonlexical. Lexical words are those that have independent meaning (such as a Noun (N), verb (V), adjective (A), adverb (Adv), or preposition (P).

Definition of dictionary definition in the English dictionary

The definition of dictionary definition in the dictionary is the meaning of a word as given in a dictionary or dictionaries.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DICTIONARY DEFINITION

Synonyms and antonyms of dictionary definition in the English dictionary of synonyms

Translation of «dictionary definition» into 25 languages

TRANSLATION OF DICTIONARY DEFINITION

Find out the translation of dictionary definition to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of dictionary definition from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dictionary definition» in English.

Translator English — Chinese

字典的定义

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish

diccionario definición

570 millions of speakers

Translator English — Hindi

शब्दकोश परिभाषा

380 millions of speakers

Translator English — Arabic

تعريف القاموس

280 millions of speakers

Translator English — Russian

словарное определение

278 millions of speakers

Translator English — Portuguese

definição do dicionário

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali

অভিধান সংজ্ঞা

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French

définition du dictionnaire

220 millions of speakers

Translator English — Malay

Definisi kamus

190 millions of speakers

Translator English — German

Wörterbuch-Definition

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese

辞書的定義

130 millions of speakers

Translator English — Korean

사전 적 정의

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese

Definisi kamus

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Vietnamese

định nghĩa từ điển

80 millions of speakers

Translator English — Tamil

அகராதி வரையறை

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Marathi

शब्दकोश परिभाषा

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Turkish

Sözlük tanımı

70 millions of speakers

Translator English — Italian

definizione del dizionario

65 millions of speakers

Translator English — Polish

Słownik definicji

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian

словникове визначення

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian

definiția din dicționar

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek

λεξικό ορισμό

15 millions of speakers

Translator English — Afrikaans

woordeboek definisie

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish

ordbokens definition

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian

ordboksdefinisjonen

5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dictionary definition

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DICTIONARY DEFINITION»

The term «dictionary definition» is regularly used and occupies the 59.951 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

Trends

The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «dictionary definition» in the different countries.

Principal search tendencies and common uses of dictionary definition

List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «dictionary definition».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DICTIONARY DEFINITION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dictionary definition» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dictionary definition» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dictionary definition

2 QUOTES WITH «DICTIONARY DEFINITION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dictionary definition.

The much vaunted male logic isn’t logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DICTIONARY DEFINITION»

Discover the use of dictionary definition in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dictionary definition and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

Examines the significance and history of a wide range of terms and phrases related to the analysis of literature

Your Guess Dictionary Definition 2. If you grovel, are you on your hands and
knees or are you complaining? Your Guess Dictionary Definition 3. If you are
frugal, are you careful with money or are you able to play a musical instrument?

Remedia Publications, 2007

Dictionary of Lexicography

… ð DEFINING DICTIONARY. definition style The approach taken and the type of
language chosen to provide a DEFINITION. Depending on the nature and scope
of the REFERENCE WORK and its intended users, compilers can select (or …

R. R. K. Hartmann, Gregory James, 2002

International Tables for Crystallography, Definition and …

… CIF Dictionary’ cif_compat.dic . 1.4 . ftp://ftp.iucr.org/pub/cifdics/cif_compat.dic ‘
Legacy CIF Dictionary of deprecated terms’ ddl_core.dic . 1.4.1 . ftp://ftp.iucr.org/
pub/cifdics/ddl_core.dic ‘Non-relational dictionary definition language’ …

Sydney Hall, Theo Hahn, Uri Shmueli, 2005

A Practical Guide to Lexicography

… most often bought, most often consulted, the one that plays the most important
role in the society that produces it. It sells in huge numbers everywhere, and it is
also FOUNDATIONS n ‘The’ dictionary: Definition and history Piet van
Sterkenburg.

P. G. J. van Sterkenburg, 2003

Read text Burial in unison • Choose child to highlight a familiar word, ask for their
definition of word • Look for dictionary definition: model how to look up word in
dictionary (alphabetically, by initial letter then second, third, fourth letters) • Let …

Improving Communications (eBook)

Dictionary’s Definition: That movie was radical! My Definition: Partner’s Definition:
Dictionary’s Definition: Help him with that assignment. My Definition: Partner’s
Definition: Dictionary’s Definition: That’s a hard problem to solve. My Definition: …

John Gust, J. Meghan McChesney, Risa R. Gechtman, 1997

Ethnocentrism and the English Dictionary

The region is both excluded from participation in the formation of the language
and treated as an object of the knowledge encoded within it. Definition and
structure A dictionary definition is in principle a concise statement of the meaning
of a …

The Basic Humor Process: A Cognitive-Shift Theory and the …

Paulos, there is evidence of a tendency to waver between the dictionary
definition and an extended one. It is clear that all three theorists formulated their
definitions with one eye on incongruity in the dictionary sense, even though, as
just …

Dictionary of World Philosophy

Sixth, lexical, i.e. a definition that specifies the conventional meaning of a term or
expression, e.g. a dictionary definition. Seventh, nominal, i.e. strictly, a definition
of a noun; more generally, a definition of language only, not of what language is …

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DICTIONARY DEFINITION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dictionary definition is used in the context of the following news items.

When Did Drake Get So Swoll? — The Cut — New York Magazine

(For the uninitiated, swoll is, by Urban Dictionary definition, short for «swollen, as in getting swollen or buff at the gym.» Synonyms include: … «New York Magazine, Jul 15»

Facebook gets a feminist twist with new friends icons | Technology …

Interesting, because whenever challenged on this, feminists are so quick to point to the dictionary definition of feminism, and claim that its about … «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Judge Cancels Redskins Team’s Trademarks as Offensive to Indians

Lee noted that, 70 years prior to the mark’s registration, a dictionary definition for the word «redskin» characterized the word as «often … «Courthouse News Service, Jul 15»

‘Raheem Sterling can no longer call himself a professional’ — BT

Print this story. The dictionary definition of professionalism goes beyond the basic description of an individual being paid for their services. «BT Sport, Jul 15»

Chicago Man Allegedly Shoots Two Partygoers In Beer Pong Accident

In case you need a refresher, as it were, the Urban Dictionary definition of beer pong is “a drinking game in which players attempt to throw ping … «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»

I am the captain of my soul and this is my log — Love From The Brain

And by nice I mean the dictionary definition of pleasing and agreeable. I don’t think I am mean. There is the saying “nice, mean and in-between. «ChicagoNow, Jul 15»

TRAVEL: The Grand Canyon is awe-inspiring | Gympie Times

Seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time is definitely the dictionary definition of awe: «solemn wonder tinged with latent fear». «Gympie Times, Jul 15»

California students resist authorities’ attempt to conflate criticism of …

… any reference to the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, or worse, to replace it with the Merriam Webster dictionary definition. «Mondoweiss, Jul 15»

Naomi Watts debuts peroxide blonde hairstyle at the Armani Prive …

Sauntering up the steps in a white halter-neck dress at the venue in the French capital, Naomi looked the dictionary definition of a blonde … «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Everything You Need to Know About Volatility: Good, Bad, or …

The dictionary definition or the technical, finance definition? Is there a difference? Yes. Okay – what’s the technical definition? In finance … «Equities.com, Jul 15»

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