English words for '(linguistics) learned borrowing.'
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noun
- (linguistics, phonology) The process whereby a loan word’s pronunciation is adapted to the sound system of the borrowing language.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a language acquires native speakers.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a language in a new region acquires localised features, as by contact with pre-existing languages of the region, or in response to the local environment.
noun
- (applied linguistics) The language a learner is attempting to acquire.
- (computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.
- (translation studies) The language into which a translation is done.
- a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated
- the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
noun
- (linguistics, uncountable) The assimilation of borrowed lexis, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language.
- (linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.
noun
- (linguistics) A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
- (biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
- (linguistics) The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
- The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
- The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
- slightly modified copy; not an exact copy
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
noun
- changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
- the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
- Alternative spelling of naturalization.
noun
- changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
- the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
- The introduction and establishment of an animal or plant into a place where it is not indigenous.
- The admission or adoption of foreign words or customs into general use.
- The action of naturalizing somebody; act of granting citizenship.
noun
- (linguistics, language learning) The part of language input that is actually processed by a learner.
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
- The quantity taken in.
- (slang, derogatory) A nostril, especially a large one.
- an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
verb
noun
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
- an imprecise or incomplete account
- the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
noun
- (informal) Clipping of linguistics.
- Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
- Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
- Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
- A common ling (Molva molva).
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
- elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
- American hakes
noun
- the study of language meaning
- the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
- (computer science) The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax.
- (loosely, colloquial, of a detail or distinction) Pettiness or triviality.
- The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
- The meaning or set of meanings of a linguistic element, such as a word, morpheme or utterance.
- (linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
- The meanings of individual words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
noun
name
noun
- (linguistics) Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.
- (computing) A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.
- Nonsense text or speech that resembles English in some way.
- (derogatory) English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.
adj
noun
- The form of language acquired through education and reading, as opposed to the dialect one grows up speaking; educated or formal language.
- A separate language for expressing ideas, as opposed to the vernacular (mother tongue) which is employed for everyday speech.
- A second language that one speaks fluently.
- The language spoken by one's father, when it differs from that spoken by one's mother.
verb
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
noun
- A second language (a language being learned, as opposed to a mother tongue).
- (computing) The second-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the first level cache.
- (astrophysics) Abbreviation of Lagrange point 2, located beyond the smaller object on a line passing through the centers of the smaller and larger objects.
- (networking) The data link layer in the seven layer OSI network model.
- a language that a person has acquired in adolescence or later
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of language for specific purposes.
- (programming) Initialism of Liskov substitution principle, one of the SOLID programming principles.
- (programming) Initialism of Language Server Protocol.
- (physics) Initialism of lightest supersymmetric particle/partner.
- (astronomy) Initialism of long secondary period
noun
- (linguistics, phonology) The process whereby a loan word’s pronunciation is adapted to the sound system of the borrowing language.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a language acquires native speakers.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a language in a new region acquires localised features, as by contact with pre-existing languages of the region, or in response to the local environment.
noun
- (applied linguistics) The language a learner is attempting to acquire.
- (computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.
- (translation studies) The language into which a translation is done.
- a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated
- the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
noun
- (linguistics, uncountable) The assimilation of borrowed lexis, either partial or whole, to word forms of the borrowing language.
- (linguistics, countable) A word or phrase borrowed by one language from another and modified in pronunciation to fit the set of sounds the borrowing language typically uses.
noun
- (linguistics) A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
- (biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
- (linguistics) The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
- The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
- The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
- slightly modified copy; not an exact copy
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
noun
- changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
- the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
- Alternative spelling of naturalization.
noun
- changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology
- the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
- The introduction and establishment of an animal or plant into a place where it is not indigenous.
- The admission or adoption of foreign words or customs into general use.
- The action of naturalizing somebody; act of granting citizenship.
noun
- (linguistics, language learning) The part of language input that is actually processed by a learner.
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- The people taken into an organization or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- (UK, dialect) Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
- The quantity taken in.
- (slang, derogatory) A nostril, especially a large one.
- an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
verb
noun
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
- an imprecise or incomplete account
- the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
noun
- (informal) Clipping of linguistics.
- Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
- Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
- Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
- A common ling (Molva molva).
- common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
- water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
- elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
- American hakes
noun
- the study of language meaning
- the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text
- (computer science) The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax.
- (loosely, colloquial, of a detail or distinction) Pettiness or triviality.
- The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
- The meaning or set of meanings of a linguistic element, such as a word, morpheme or utterance.
- (linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
- The meanings of individual words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
noun
name
noun
- (linguistics) Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.
- (computing) A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.
- Nonsense text or speech that resembles English in some way.
- (derogatory) English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.
adj
noun
- The form of language acquired through education and reading, as opposed to the dialect one grows up speaking; educated or formal language.
- A separate language for expressing ideas, as opposed to the vernacular (mother tongue) which is employed for everyday speech.
- A second language that one speaks fluently.
- The language spoken by one's father, when it differs from that spoken by one's mother.
noun
- A second language (a language being learned, as opposed to a mother tongue).
- (computing) The second-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the first level cache.
- (astrophysics) Abbreviation of Lagrange point 2, located beyond the smaller object on a line passing through the centers of the smaller and larger objects.
- (networking) The data link layer in the seven layer OSI network model.
- a language that a person has acquired in adolescence or later
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of language for specific purposes.
- (programming) Initialism of Liskov substitution principle, one of the SOLID programming principles.
- (programming) Initialism of Language Server Protocol.
- (physics) Initialism of lightest supersymmetric particle/partner.
- (astronomy) Initialism of long secondary period
verb
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.