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Practical lexicography
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Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. Goes from the General Lexicography[http://www.termwiki.com/EN/Lexicography].
Theoretical lexicography
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Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing ...
Umbrella term
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An umbrella term covers a broad number of functions or items that all fall under a single common category. For example, cryptology is an umbrella term that encompasses cryptography and cryptanalysis, ...
Blanket term
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Blanket term is a word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things. The degree of relation may vary, even have a minimal relationship, but blanket terms often trade ...
Term
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Terms are words and compound words or multi-word expressions that in specific contexts are given specific meanings—these may deviate from the meanings the same words have in other contexts and in ...
Terminology
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Terminology is the study of terms and their use. Terminology is a discipline that studies, among other things, the development of such terms and their interrelationships within a specialized domain. ...
allegory
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A Major symbolic mode which fell into some critical disrepute in the mid-twentieth century (‘dissociated’, ‘naive’, ‘mechanical’, ‘abstract’) though it flourished in satire, underground literature ...
