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semantics
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Semantics was a 1983 EP by iconic Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl . The album marked a change in the line-up of the band as Bill McDonough (drums) was replaced first by Graham Bidstrup (ex- The Angels , The Party Boys with Crawl member James ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE lexical ▪ It may be wondered why it is necessary, or even advantageous, to have two sorts of unit for lexical semantics . ▪ However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
General semantics \Gen"er*al sem*an"tics\, n. (1933) a doctrine and philosophical approach to language and its relationship to thought and behavior, developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), which holds that the capacity to express ideas and thereby improve ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context linguistics English) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words. (1893) 2 The study of the relationship between words and their meanings. 3 The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
Usage examples of semantics.
The semantics and logic circuits were assembled and made ready for use before the other circuits were even begun.
The semantics and logic circuits alone should require an even hundred kilowatts of power.
It was all a matter of semantics and viewpoints, but Vestolian had to waste three days with ambassadors from the two hundred worlds rather than commit his military forces to the only viable alternative.
A basic proposition of epistemology, bedrock both for the three basic statements of semantics and for information theory, is that an observed fact requires no proof.
I think I presented the facts of General Semantics so well, and so skilfully, in World of Null-A and its sequel that the readers thought that that was all I should be doing.
By studying all the paths of liberation, including General Semantics and the writings of the British libertarian philosophers who inspired the American Revolution - not to mention the works of the anarchists - we can begin to identify and ferret out these authoritarian-submissive presumptions that have deprived us of our natural reason.
Hayakawa, as the Institute for General Semantics was dose to where we lived - across the Mall and east a couple of blocks at 1234 East 56th.
Besides that, I have been urged to tackle a primer of semantics and general semantics.
Go through those drills I gave you on logical processes and general semantics.
Robinson goes on to list a half-page or so of other constant concerns and themes: multiple identity, advances in technology leading to hedonistic comfort, the balance of privilege and responsibility, alternate histories, alternatives to monogamy and conventional marriage, the metric system, general semantics.
She had sought deeper truths by way of Zen, General Semantics, the Bates eyesight exercises, and the readings of Edgar Cayce.
I used to know the old fag when I studied General Semantics with Dick Dettering at S.
At the Semantics Institute they have constructed tubes in series around highly improved lie detectors that can examine the body and mind of a man at a glance and tell the degree of null-A training he has received.
But if it challenges you to argue semantics with it, and you don't lose your cool .
Besides having suitable genes, he had been through the Intelligence Corps' unmercifully rigorous courses in linguistics and metalinguistics, semantics and metasemantics, every known trick of concentration and memorization.