1
read someone like a book
English-Dutch dictionary > read someone like a book
2
read somebody like a book
видеть насквозь
Of course I understand you, I read you like a book.
Англо-русский словарь идиом и фразовых глаголов > read somebody like a book
3
read smb. like a book
пpeкpacнo пoнимaть кoгo-л., нacквoзь видeть кoгo-л.
She had seen through me. She read me like a book (R. P. Warren)
Concise English-Russian phrasebook > read smb. like a book
4
read (smb.) like a book
видеть насквозь
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > read (smb.) like a book
5
read somebody like a book
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > read somebody like a book
6
read someone like a book
видеть насквозь, прекрасно понимать кого-л.
Новый англо-русский словарь > read someone like a book
7
read sb like a book
English to Turkish dictionary > read sb like a book
8
to read somebody like a book
English-spanish dictionary > to read somebody like a book
9
to read somebody like a book
redzēt kādam cauri; lasīt kāda domas; pazīt kādu ļoti labi
English-Latvian dictionary > to read somebody like a book
10
you can read him like a book
English-German idiom dictionary > you can read him like a book
11
read like a book
1) Общая лексика: видеть насквозь
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > read like a book
12
read like the book
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > read like the book
13
read one like an open book
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > read one like an open book
14
know smb. like a book
прекрасно понимать кого-л. , насквозь видеть кого-л. (прекрасно разбираться в чём-л.)
Florence: «My intuition about people is never wrong. I can read faces like a book. The first time I saw you my intuition said, ‘There is a weak man.’» (I. Shaw, ‘The Gentle People’, act II) — Флоренс: «У меня редкая интуиция, и я хорошая физиономистка. Как только я увидела вас, моя интуиция шепнула мне: «Это человек бесхарактерный.»»
She had seen through me. She read me like a book. (R. P. Warren, ‘All the King’s Men’, ch. X) — Сэди видела меня насквозь. Она читала в моей душе, как по писаному.
Large English-Russian phrasebook > know smb. like a book
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read
(preterite, past participle read) [red]
a. [+ book, letter] lire ; [+ music, bad handwriting] déchiffrer
• to read medicine/law faire (des études de) médecine/droit
• the thermometer reads 37° le thermomètre indique 37°
• the letter reads thus… voici ce que dit la lettre…
* * *
1. [riːd]
noun
2. [riːd]
1) () lire [book, map, music, sign]
the card reads ‘Happy Birthday Dad’ — sur la carte il est écrit ‘bon anniversaire Papa’
3) () lire [braille, handwriting]
4) () reconnaître [signs]; interpréter [intentions, reactions]; voir [situation]
6) () relever [meter]; lire [dial]
7)
Radio
,
Telecommunications
recevoir [person]
3. [riːd]
the document reads well/badly — le document se lit bien/mal
•
Phrasal Verbs:
••
English-French dictionary > read
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read
(read)
1 კითხვა, წაკითხვა (წაიკითხავს)
to read aloud / to oneself ხმამაღლა / ჩუმად კითხვა
●●this sentence can be read in different ways ამ წინადადების შინაარსის გაგება სხვადასხვაგვარად შეიძლება
the letter reads as follows… წერილში შემდეგი წერია…
to read smb. a lesson ნოტაციის წაკითხვა (ნოტაციას წაუკითხავს), ჭკუის სწავლება
2 მკითხაობა (მკითხაობს), მარჩიელობა
English-Georgian dictionary > read
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read
PHRASES:
to take sth as read etw als selbstverständlich voraussetzen;
we will take the minutes as read wir setzen das Protokoll als bekannt voraus
to have a quiet read ( fam) in Ruhe lesen;
to have a read of sth in etw akk hineinschauen ( fam), einen Blick in etw akk werfen
good/bad read spannende/langweilige Lektüre;
to be a good read sich akk gut lesen [lassen]
to read sth etw lesen; handwriting etw entziffern;
to read sth avidly etw leidenschaftlich gern lesen;
to read sth voraciously etw geradezu verschlingen;
to read a map eine Karte lesen
to read music Noten lesen
to read sth aloud [or out loud] etw laut vorlesen;
to read sb sth [or sth to sb] jdm etw vorlesen
to read an emotion ein Gefühl erraten;
to read sb’s face in jds Gesicht lesen;
to read sth in sb’s face jdm etw vom Gesicht ablesen
5) ( interpret) interpretieren, deuten;
if I’ve read the situation aright,… wenn ich die Situation richtig verstehe,…
to read sth for sth statt etw etw heißen;
on page 19, for Blitish, please read British auf Seite 19 muss es statt Blitish British heißen
to read sth etw Korrektur lesen;
to read a proof Korrektur lesen
pol, law
to read a bill/ measure eine Gesetzesvorlage/gesetzliche Verfügung lesen
to read sth etw ablesen;
to read a meter einen Zählerstand ablesen
to read sth etw anzeigen;
the thermometer is reading 40ºC in the shade das Thermometer zeigt 40ºC im Schatten an
to read sth chemistry, English, history etw studieren
to read a card eine Karte [ein]lesen;
to read data Daten lesen
13) radio, telec
to read sb jdn verstehen;
do you read me? — loud and clear können Sie mich verstehen? — laut und deutlich;
I don’t read you ich verstehe nicht, was du meinst
to read sb’s palm jdm aus der Hand lesen;
to read the tea leaves aus dem Kaffeesatz lesen;
to read sth in the cards etw in den Karten lesen
PHRASES:
to read sb like a book in jdm lesen können wie in einem [offenen] Buch;
to read sb a lecture ( form) jdm die Leviten lesen ( fam)
read my lips! hör [mal] ganz genau zu!;
to read sb’s lips jdm von den Lippen lesen;
to read sb’s mind [or thoughts] jds Gedanken lesen;
to read sb the Riot Act jdm gehörig die Leviten lesen ( fam)
to read the runes ( Brit) die Zeichen der Zeit erkennen vi <read, read>
to read avidly leidenschaftlich gern lesen;
to read voraciously Bücher geradezu verschlingen;
to read about [or of] sb/ sth über jdn/etw lesen
to read aloud [or out loud] [to sb] [jdm] laut vorlesen
to read well book, letter, article, magazine sich akk gut lesen
there was a sign reading ‘No Smoking’ auf einem Schild stand „Rauchen verboten“
5) theat, film
to read for a part sich akk in eine Rolle einlesen
to read for sth etw studieren;
to read for the Bar Jura studieren
PHRASES:
to read between the lines zwischen den Zeilen lesen
English-German students dictionary > read
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book
∎ a book on or about gardening un livre de jardinage;
∎ humorous his little black book son carnet d’adresses;
∎ figurative her face is an open book toutes ses émotions se voient sur son visage;
∎ to read sb like a book or an open book lire à livre ouvert dans la pensée de qn;
∎ British to bring sb to book obliger qn à rendre des comptes;
∎ to do things or to go by the book faire les choses selon les règles;
∎ familiar in my book à mon avis□ ;
∎ that’s one for the book or books! il faudra marquer ça d’une pierre blanche!;
∎ British that suits my book cela me va tout à fait;
∎ to make/to start/to keep a book on sth inscrire/engager/tenir un pari sur qch
∎ have you already booked your trip? avez-vous déjà fait les réservations pour votre voyage?;
∎ the performance is booked up or fully booked on joue à bureaux ou guichets fermés;
∎ familiar to cook the books trafiquer les comptes
∎ he’s on our books c’est un de nos membres; c’est un de nos joueurs; il est dans nos fichiers;
Accountancy book debts comptes
mpl
fournisseurs, dettes
fpl
compte;
book fair salon
m
du livre; foire
f
aux livres;
British book token bon
m
d’achat de livres, chèque-livre
m
;
Finance book value valeur
f
comptable, valeur de bilan
se faire enregistrer; prendre une chambre
inscrire; réserver une chambre pour
quitter sa chambre d’hôtel, partir
réserver, retenir;
réserver
ⓘ THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Édité en 1549 avec l’assentiment du Parlement, ce livre de prières introduisit une réforme du culte public, alliant la solennité des cérémonies traditionnelles à un office simplifié en anglais.
Un panorama unique de l’anglais et du français > book
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book
2 (division, part) (of novel, trilogy) livre
m
, tome
m
; (of poem, epic, bible) livre
m
; the Book of Genesis/of Kings le livre de la Genèse/des Rois ;
3 Fin (for recording deposits, withdrawals) livret
m
bancaire ;
1 ( reserve) réserver, retenir [table, seat, room, cabin, ticket] ; faire les réservations pour [holiday] ; réserver [taxi] ; engager [babysitter, driver, entertainer] ; to book sth for sb, to book sb sth réserver qch pour qn ; to book sb into a hotel réserver une chambre dans un hôtel pour qn ; I’ve booked him a room, I’ve booked him into a hotel je lui ai reservé une chambre (dans un hôtel) ; to be fully booked être complet/-ète ; Saturday’s performance is fully booked c’est complet pour samedi soir, on joue à guichets fermés samedi soir ; my Tuesday afternoons are booked je suis pris le mardi après-midi ; I’m fully booked this week je suis pris tous les jours cette semaine ;
3 GB Sport [referee] donner un carton jaune à [player] ; two players were booked deux joueurs ont reçu un carton jaune ;
▶ book [sb] in réserver une chambre pour.
Big English-French dictionary > book
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book
book [bυk]
1) кни́га, литерату́рное произведе́ние
2) (the B.) Би́блия
3) том, кни́га, часть
4) либре́тто; текст ( оперы
и т.п.
); сцена́рий
5) конто́рская кни́га
6) сбо́рник отчётов (коммерческого предприятия, научного общества
и т.п.
;
тж.
books)
телефо́нная кни́га
9) букме́керская кни́га за́писи ста́вок пари́ ( на скачках); за́пись заключа́емых пари́
а) альбо́м ма́рок;
б) кни́жечка почто́вых ма́рок
12)
карт.
(пе́рвые) шесть взя́ток одно́й из сторо́н ( в висте)
◊
to read smb. like a book прекра́сно понима́ть кого́-л., ви́деть наскво́зь
;
to be in smb.’s good (bad, black) books быть у кого́-л. на хоро́шем (плохо́м) счету́
;
to suit smb.’s book совпада́ть с чьи́ми-л. пла́нами, отвеча́ть чьим-л. интере́сам
;
2) заручи́ться согла́сием; приглаша́ть; ангажи́ровать (актёра, оратора);
3) заноси́ть в кни́гу, (за)регистри́ровать
4) принима́ть зака́зы на биле́ты
Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > book
Meaning of Idiom ‘To Read Someone Like a Book’
To (be able to) read someone like a book means to understand someone completely and to be able to discern their thoughts, emotions, character, motives, desires, etc. 1Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth M. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms. Ware: Wordsworth, 1995.,2Ayto, John. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. Oxford: Oxford U, 2010.,3Ammer, Christine. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
See the related idiom an open book.
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Examples Of Use
“Don’t try to fool me, I can read you like a book!”
“I love to play poker with John. He always loses because I can read him like a book.”
“I tried to fool my wife the other day and told her I was at work when I was really out with friends. Problem is, she can read me like a book and I knew the jig was up as soon as I walked in the front door.”
Origin
Used since the mid-1800’s.
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read (one) like a book
To easily analyze and thoroughly understand one, especially one’s emotions, motivations, etc. You won’t be a very successful thief with that nervous demeanor—the cops will read you like a book. I can read you like a book, and I can tell that something’s wrong, so please tell me what it is.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
read someone like a book
Fig. to understand someone very well. I’ve got John figured out. I can read him like a book. Of course I understand you. I read you like a book.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
read someone like a book
If you can read someone like a book, you find it easy to know what they are thinking. Very clever of them, that bit. They must have read me like a book. There are a number of books on the market which suggest that it is possible to learn to read a person like a book.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
read someone like a book
be able to understand someone’s thoughts and motives clearly or easily.
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- read like a book
- read somebody like a book
- read someone like a book
- (one) can read (someone) like a book
- read someone like an open book, to
- read (one) like an open book
- know (someone or something) like a book
- know like a book
- know like a book, to
- take a long (hard) look in the mirror
Recent Examples on the Web
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like verb [T]
(ENJOY)
Do you like fish?
I like it when a book is so good that you can’t put it down.
I like the way he just assumes we’ll listen to him when he doesn’t take in a word anyone else says! (= I don’t like it and it annoys me.)
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- enjoyEnjoy your meal!
- enjoy yourselfHe’s enjoying himself at his job.
- likeI like hiking a lot.
- loveAfter working in the garden, I love a good soak in the tub.
- relishJonathan always relishes a challenge.
- lap upHe lapped up all the attention they gave him.
See more results »
More examplesFewer examples
- «Did you like the film?» «I thought it was brilliant.»
- I’m one of the few people who doesn’t actually like champagne.
- He used to like spending Friday nights with the boys.
- It’s just as well you’re not here — you wouldn’t like the noise.
- I like films with a lot of action.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
like verb [T]
(WANT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Grammar
Idioms
like preposition, conjunction
(AS IF)
You look like you’ve just got out of bed!
Grammar
Idioms
Grammar
like adverb
(FEELINGS/SPEECH)
Then I saw how late it was and I’m like, so upset.
like adverb
(PAUSE)
Grammar
the like of someone/something; someone’s/something’s like
(also the likes of someone/something)
Boxing hasn’t seen the likes of Muhammad Ali since he retired.
He was a very great actor — we won’t see his like again.
They’re competing with the likes of Microsoft.
and such like informal (also and the like)
the things that someone enjoys:
not for the likes of someone informal (also like)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
like adjective
(SAME)
like adjective
(IN PHYSICS)
be like to do something old use
Grammar
Idiom
Grammar
(Definition of like from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
like | American Dictionary
like verb
(ENJOY)
How do you like my new shoes?
like verb
(WANT)
Note:
- Used with «would» to ask for something or express something in a polite way.
liking
Idiom
like preposition, conjunction
(SIMILAR TO)
I’ve got a sweater just like yours.
like preposition, conjunction
(AS IF)
as if it will or was; in a way that suggests:
Idioms
Idioms
like preposition
(WILLING TO)
like preposition
(TYPICAL OF)
It’s not like you to be so quiet – are you all right?
like preposition
(SUCH AS)
Alonzo is not the kind of guy who would do something like this.
like adverb [not gradable]
(PAUSE)
(Definition of like from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of like
like
If that, or something like that, is not the suggestion, then what is the point of the comment?
It does not have to be like this.
A first theme, like a gust of wind, uses the colours of the chords.
Like domestic policy, trade policy is subject to the influence of domestic veto players.
The «successful» governess, it seems, manages her pupils into «successful» betrothals — just like the marriage plot novel.
In a nonlinear environment, it would be enough to have locally increasing returns like setup costs.
To probe this issue further, workers were requested to list the things they liked about their companies and things they did not like.
At the same time, they centre on organizations that, like parties, are in direct competition with each other.
Like the radius function, it is piecewise sinusoidal.
Not only primates and cetaceans, but also other long-lived mammals, like elephants, have females playing active (crucial) post-reproductive roles.
Some demonstrated the use of technical language, for example ‘it did sound very like a scale’.
Such children, we are told, look like animals and show no trace of intelligence.
I would like to know why they took place.
The back of the menu, like the club name, inverted another old female stereotype, this time women’s supposed cattiness among themselves.
Symbolic appeals, like the applications of rules, ought to be sensitive to special circumstances.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Other forms: bookishly
Someone bookish likes books a lot. They’re either studious or always seem to be reading.
Some people don’t like studying. Others like studying a lot: it seems like their head is always in a book. Someone like that can be called bookish, because they are reading books all the time. Being bookish can mean someone is studious: an honors student is likely very bookish. Being bookish can also mean someone just enjoys reading. People in a book club are definitely bookish. This is a word for devoted readers.
Definitions of bookish
-
adjective
characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
“a
bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket”-
synonyms:
studious
-
scholarly
characteristic of scholars or scholarship
-
scholarly
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Meaning of SPEAK LIKE A BOOK in English
report facts, provide facts
Explanatory English dictionary bed edition.
Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed.
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Basic Triangle
concept (thought, reference) – the thought of the object that singles out its essential features
referent – object denoted by the word, part of reality
sound-form (symbol, sign) – linguistic sign
concept – flowersound-form referent
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In what way does meaning correlate with
each element of the triangle ?In what relation does meaning stand to
each of them? -
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Meaning and Sound-form
are not identical
different
EX. dove — [dΛv] English sound-forms
[golub’] Russian BUT
[taube] German
the same meaning -
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Meaning and Sound-form
nearly identical sound-forms have different meanings in different languages
EX. [kot] Russian – a male cat
[kot] English – a small bed for a childidentical sound-forms have different meanings (‘homonyms)
EX. knight [nait]
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Meaning and Sound-form
even considerable changes in sound-form do not affect the meaningEX Old English lufian [luvian] – love [l Λ v]
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Meaning and Concept
concept is a category of human cognitionconcept is abstract and reflects the most common and typical features of different objects and phenomena in the world
meanings of words are different in different languages
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Meaning and Concept
identical concepts may have different semantic structures in different languagesEX. concept “a building for human habitation” –
English Russian
HOUSE ДОМ+ in Russian ДОМ
“fixed residence of family or household”
In English HOME -
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Meaning and Referent
one and the same object (referent) may be denoted by more than one word of a different meaning
cat
pussy
animal
tiger -
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Meaning
is not identical with any of the three points of the triangle –
the sound form,
the concept
the referentBUT
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Functional Approach
studies the functions of a word in speech
meaning of a word is studied through relations of it with other linguistic units
EX. to move (we move, move a chair)
movement (movement of smth, slow movement)The distriution ( the position of the word in relation to
others) of the verb to move and a noun movement is
different as they belong to different classes of words and
their meanings are different -
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Operational approach
is centered on defining meaning through its role in
the process of communicationEX John came at 6
Beside the direct meaning the sentence may imply that:
He was late
He failed to keep his promise
He was punctual as usual
He came but he didn’t want toThe implication depends on the concrete situation
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Lexical Meaning and Notion
Notion denotes the reflection in the mind of real objectsNotion is a unit of thinking
Lexical meaning is the realization of a notion by means of a definite language system
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Lexical Meaning and Notion
Notions are international especially with the nations of the same cultural levelMeanings are nationally limited
EX GO (E) —- ИДТИ(R)
“To move”
BUT !!!
To GO by bus (E)
ЕХАТЬ (R)EX Man -мужчина, человек
Она – хороший человек (R)
She is a good person (E) -
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Types of Meaning
Types of meaninggrammatical
meaninglexico-grammatical
meaning
lexical meaning
denotational
connotational -
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Grammatical Meaning
component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different wordsEX. girls, winters, toys, tables –
grammatical meaning of pluralityasked, thought, walked –
meaning of past tense -
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Lexico-grammatical meaning
(part –of- speech meaning)
is revealed in the classification of lexical items into:
major word classes (N, V, Adj, Adv)
minor ones (artc, prep, conj)words of one lexico-grammatical class have the same paradigm
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Lexical Meaning
is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributionsEX . Go – goes — went
lexical meaning – process of movement -
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PRACTICE
Group the words into 3 column according to the grammatical, lexical or part-of –speech meaning
Boy’s, nearest, at, beautiful,
think, man, drift, wrote,
tremendous, ship’s, the most beautiful,
table, near, for, went, friend’s,
handsome, thinking, boy,
nearer, thought, boys,
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Grammatical
The case of nouns: boy’s, ship’s, friend’s
The degree of comparison of adj: nearest, the most beautiful
The tense of verbs: wrote, went, thoughtLexical
Think, thinking, thought
Went, go
Boy’s, boy, boys
Nearest, near, nearer
At, for, during (“time”)
Beautiful, the most beautifulPart-of-speech
Nouns—verbs—adj—-prep -
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Aspects of Lexical meaning
The denotational aspectThe connotational aspect
The pragmatic aspect
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Denotational Meaning
“denote” – to be a sign of, stand as a symbol for”establishes the correlation between the name and the object
makes communication possibleEX booklet
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PRACTICE
Explain denotational meaningA lion-hunter
To have a heart like a lion
To feel like a lion
To roar like a lion
To be thrown to the lions
The lion’s share
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PRACTICE
A lion-hunter
A host that seeks out celebrities to impress guests
To have a heart like a lion
To have great courage
To feel like a lion
To be in the best of health
To roar like a lion
To shout very loudly
To be thrown to the lions
To be criticized strongly or treated badly
The lion’s share
Much more than one’s share
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Connotational Meaning
reflects the attitude of the speaker towards what he speaks about
it is optional – a word either has it or notConnotation gives additional information and includes:
The emotive charge EX Daddy (for father)
Intensity EX to adore (for to love)
Imagery EX to wade through a book
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PRACTICE
Give possible interpretation of the sentencesShe failed to buy it and felt a strange pang.
Don’t be afraid of that woman! It’s just barking!
He got up from his chair moving slowly, like an old man.
The girl went to her father and pulled his sleeve.
He was longing to begin to be generous.
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PRACTICE
Give possible interpretation of the sentences
She failed to buy it and felt a strange pang.
(pain—dissatisfaction that makes her suffer)
Don’t be afraid of that woman! It’s just barking!
(make loud sharp sound—-the behavior that implies that the person is frightened)
He got up from his chair moving slowly, like an old man.
(to go at slow speed—was suffering or was ill)
The girl went to her father and pulled his sleeve.
(to move smth towards oneself— to try to attract smb’s attention)
He was longing to begin to be generous.
(to start doing— hadn’t been generous before)
She was a woman with shiny red hands and work-swollen finger knuckles.
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The pragmatic aspect of lexical meaning
the situation in which the word is uttered,
the social circumstances (formal, informal, etc.),
social relationships between the interlocutors (polite, rough, etc.),
the type and purpose of communication (poetic, official, etc.)EX horse (neutral)
steed (poetic)
nag (slang)
gee-gee (baby language) -
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PRACTICE
State what image underline the meaningI heard what she said but it didn’t sink into my mind.
You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.
They seized on the idea.
Bill, chasing some skirt again?
I saw him dive into a small pub.
Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
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PRACTICE
State what image underline the meaning
I heard what she said but it didn’t sink into my mind.
(to understand completely)
You should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that.
(to behave humbly in order to win favour)
They seized on the idea.
(to be eager to take and use)
Bill, chasing some skirt again?
(a girl)
I saw him dive into a small pub.
(to enter suddenly)
Why are you trying to pin the blame on me?
(to blame smb unfairly)
He only married her for her dough.
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Types of Morpheme Meaning
lexical
differential
functional
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Lexical Meaning in Morphemes
root-morphemes that are homonymous to words possess lexical meaning
EX. boy – boyhood – boyishaffixes have lexical meaning of a more generalized character
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Lexical Meaning in Morphemes
has denotational and connotational components
EX. –ly, -like, -ish –
denotational meaning of similiarity
womanly , womanishconnotational component –
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Differential Meaning
a semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemesEX. cranberry, blackberry, gooseberry
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Functional Meaning
found only in derivational affixes
a semantic component which serves to
refer the word to the certain part of speechEX. just, adj. – justice, n.
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Distributional Meaning
the meaning of the order and the arrangement of morphemes making up the word
found in words containing more than one morpheme
different arrangement of the same morphemes would make the word meaningless
EX. sing- + -er =singer,
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Motivation
denotes the relationship between the phonetic or morphemic composition and structural pattern of the word on the one hand, and its meaning on the othercan be phonetical
morphological
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Phonetical Motivation
when there is a certain similarity between the sounds that make up the word and those produced by animals, objects, etc.EX. sizzle, boom, splash, cuckoo
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Morphological Motivation
when there is a direct connection between the structure of a word and its meaning
EX. finger-ring – ring-finger,A direct connection between the lexical meaning of the component morphemes
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Semantic Motivation
based on co-existence of direct and figurative meanings of the same wordEX a watchdog –
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Analyze the meaning of the words.
Define the type of motivation
a) morphologically motivated
b) semantically motivatedDriver
Leg
Horse
Wall
Hand-made
Careless
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Analyze the meaning of the words.
Define the type of motivation
a) morphologically motivated
b) semantically motivated
Driver
Someone who drives a vehicle
morphologically motivated
Leg
The part of a piece of furniture such as a table
semantically motivated
Horse
A piece of equipment shaped like a box, used in gymnastics
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Wall
Emotions or behavior preventing people from feeling close
semantically motivated
Hand-made
Made by hand, not machine
morphologically motivated
Careless
Not taking enough care
morphologically motivated
Piggish
Selfish
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I heard what she said but it didn’t sink in my mind
“do down to the bottom”
‘to be accepted by mind” semantic motivationWhy are you trying to pin the blame on me?
“fasten smth somewhere using a pin” –
”to blame smb” semantic motivationI was following the man when he dived into a pub.
“jump into deep water” –
”to enter into suddenly” semantic motivationYou should be ashamed of yourself, crawling to the director like that
“to move along on hands and knees close to the ground” –
“to behave very humbly in order to win favor” semantic motivation
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