English words for 'Relating to grammar and pragmatics.'
Closest matches for "Relating to grammar and pragmatics." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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adj
- of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
- concerned with practical matters
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
- Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
- Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
noun
adj
noun
prefix
noun
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
adj
noun
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
verb
- (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
- (transitive, usually with in) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
- (transitive, nonstandard) To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
- bring into intimate and incriminating connection
- impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
adj
noun
noun
- (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- (literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
- (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- a formal expression of praise
noun
- (pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
- The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
- Any plant used to form a hedge.
- (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
noun
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
noun
- (grammar) Initialism of internal argument.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of internal affairs, a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers.
- (politics) Initialism of international affairs.
- (UK) Initialism of initial accommodation (for immigrants)
- Initialism of Institute of Arts.
- Initialism of Impact Assessment.
- (computing) Initialism of information assurance.
- (military) Initialism of individual augmentee.
- Initialism of industrial action.
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of industrial arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.
- Initialism of immediate action, the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage.
- (linguistic morphology) Initialism of item-and-arrangement.
intj
name
- Initialism of Ice Age.
- (military, uncountable) Initialism of Indian Army.
- (India) Initialism of Indian Airlines.
- (military) Initialism of Iraqi Army.
- (Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.
- Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
- (computing) Initialism of Intel Architecture.
verb
- (grammar, ergative) To admit of grammatical analysis.
- (transitive) To translate.
- (transitive) To interpret (something) to another or publicly, explain the meaning of (something, usually language).
- (transitive) To understand (something) as meaning, to take to mean.
- To infer.
- (grammar, transitive) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
noun
noun
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
adj
noun
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
noun
- (rhetoric) A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
- (literature) A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
- (rhetoric) A general category of oratory.
- The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
- Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
- a formal expression of praise
noun
- (pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements.
- The act of one who hedges (in various senses).
- Any plant used to form a hedge.
- (finance) the practice of taking a position in one market to offset and balance against the risk adopted by assuming a position in a contrary or opposing market or investment
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
noun
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
noun
- (grammar) Initialism of internal argument.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of internal affairs, a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers.
- (politics) Initialism of international affairs.
- (UK) Initialism of initial accommodation (for immigrants)
- Initialism of Institute of Arts.
- Initialism of Impact Assessment.
- (computing) Initialism of information assurance.
- (military) Initialism of individual augmentee.
- Initialism of industrial action.
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of industrial arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.
- Initialism of immediate action, the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage.
- (linguistic morphology) Initialism of item-and-arrangement.
intj
name
- Initialism of Ice Age.
- (military, uncountable) Initialism of Indian Army.
- (India) Initialism of Indian Airlines.
- (military) Initialism of Iraqi Army.
- (Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.
- Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
- (computing) Initialism of Intel Architecture.
verb
- (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
- (transitive, usually with in) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
- (transitive, nonstandard) To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
- bring into intimate and incriminating connection
- impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
adj
noun
verb
- (grammar, ergative) To admit of grammatical analysis.
- (transitive) To translate.
- (transitive) To interpret (something) to another or publicly, explain the meaning of (something, usually language).
- (transitive) To understand (something) as meaning, to take to mean.
- To infer.
- (grammar, transitive) To analyze the grammatical structure of a clause or sentence; to parse.
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
noun
adj
- of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
- concerned with practical matters
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
- Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
- Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.