English words for '(semiotics) An instance of overcoding.'
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verb
noun
- (countable, research methods) A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items.
- Inventory that can no longer be sold (such as items that are past their sell-by date).
- (countable, semiotics) An established code (signifier) that also acts as a new code, either representing additional (related) meanings, or dividing into various nuances of the original meaning.
adj
noun
verb
- (semiotics, transitive) To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
- (semiotics, intransitive) To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.
- To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.
- To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
- To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.
- (semiotics, transitive) To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
noun
- (semiotics) An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
- (Ancient Greece) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
- (publishing) A treatise or compendium.
- (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
- a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit
adj
- (semiotics) Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.
- Acting to cause or connect.
- (medicine) occurring during the course of a disease.
- (heraldry, of color) Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.
- Intermediate.
noun
noun
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
adj
verb
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
noun
- (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
- (astrology) That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
- (grammar) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
- (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
- The fact of being modal.
- (law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
- (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
- (sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
- Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
- (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular sense
noun
verb
- (semiotics, transitive) To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
- (semiotics, intransitive) To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.
- To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.
- To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
- To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.
- (semiotics, transitive) To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
noun
- (semiotics) An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
- (Ancient Greece) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
- (publishing) A treatise or compendium.
- (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
- a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit
noun
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
adj
verb
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
noun
- (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
- (astrology) That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
- (grammar) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
- (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
- The fact of being modal.
- (law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
- (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
- (sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
- Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
- (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular sense
verb
noun
- (countable, research methods) A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items.
- Inventory that can no longer be sold (such as items that are past their sell-by date).
- (countable, semiotics) An established code (signifier) that also acts as a new code, either representing additional (related) meanings, or dividing into various nuances of the original meaning.
noun
verb
- (semiotics, transitive) To communicate (information) indirectly, by means of an undercode.
- (semiotics, intransitive) To communicate using codes that do not convey the entire message, but which rely on the recipient's construction of meaning through connotation or subtexts.
- To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.
- To encode a secret message that is masked by a surface message or stream of data.
- To represent by a code that indicates a lower level of service than what was provided.
- (semiotics, transitive) To use or convey (a message) in a way that requires the recipient to construct part of the meaning.
adj
adj
- (semiotics) Defining or inferring a generalization or category of meaning.
- Acting to cause or connect.
- (medicine) occurring during the course of a disease.
- (heraldry, of color) Having a primary hue (red, blue, or gold), as opposed to one that can be created by mixing colors with primary hues.
- Intermediate.