Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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thesaurus

Language; Linguistics

The word thesaurus is derived from 16th century New Latin, in turn from Latin thesaurus, from ancient Greek θησαυρός thesauros, "store-house", "treasury". Besides its meaning as a treasury or ...

Taxonomy was once only the science of classifying living organisms (alpha taxonomy), but later the word was applied in a wider sense, and may also refer to either a classification of things, or the ...

cross-reference

Language; Linguistics

Cross-reference is an instance within a document of referring to information elsewhere (either within the same work or in a separate work). To cross-reference or to cross-refer (verb) is to make such ...

omomatopeia

Language; Linguistics

Occasionally spelled omomatopœia, omomatopeia is a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates the sound it is describing, and thus suggests its source object, such as “bang” or ...

intension

Language; Linguistics

(or " connotation") refers to the meaning or characteristics encompassed by a given word, often expressed by a definition. Intension is often discussed with regard to extension. Intension refers to ...

corpus

Language; Linguistics

(plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed). They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating ...