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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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Abbreviation

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shortened form of a word An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group ...

Initialism

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ɪ'nɪʃəlɪz(ə)m an abbreviation [http://www.termwiki.com/EN/Abbreviation_₁] consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC) An initialism often looks like an ...

Blend word

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In linguistics, a blend word or a blend is a word formed from parts of two or more other words. These parts are sometimes, but not always, morphemes.

blanket term

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A generic term or a generalized term (Engl. blanket term [http://www.termwiki.com/EN/blanket_term], [http://www.termwiki.com/EN/Umbrella_term], the term umbrella) is a term ...

Lexicography

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Leksikográfiâ (Al-Greek λεξικόν, lexikon-"dictionary" and γράφω, grapho (Gr.), "write") is the branch of Linguistics concerned with the compilation of dictionaries and study ...

Practical lexicography

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Practical lexicography is socially important functions, providing language training description and the normalization of language, cross-language communication, scientific study ...

Academic dictionary type

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Academic dictionary type is dictionary-reference book. Academic dictionary type is a standard that describes the lexical system in that language: it must not be the facts, ...