Category: GFDL images This article is about a lingustic term. ... Cryptography (from Greek kryptós, hidden, and gráphein, to write) is, traditionally, the study of means of converting information from its normal, comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format, rendering it unreadable without secret knowledge — the art of encryption. ... In ergative-absolutive languages, the ergative case identifies the subject of a transitive verb. ... Functional grammar is the name given to any of a range of functionally-based approaches to the scientific study of language. ... A kistvaen is a (usually pre-Christian) stone coffin, derived from the Celtic cist, meaning chest and maen meaning stone. ... The language center is part of the human brain cortex where most of language processing takes place. ... Liquid consonants, or liquids, are approximant consonants that are not classified as semivowels (glides) because they do not correspond phonetically to specific vowels (in the way that, for example, the initial in English yes corresponds to ). The class of liquids can be divided into lateral liquids and rhotics. ... A prefix morpheme is an affix that precedes either other prefixes or the base morpheme. ... Word grammar is a grammar model developed by Richard Hudson in the 1980s. ... A phonetic algorhitm is an algorithm for indexing of words by their pronunciation, generally used for English language. ... Metaphone is a phonetic algorithm, an algorithm for indexing words by their sound, when pronounced in English. ... This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... In the Finnish language, the Allative case is the fifth of the locative cases, with the basic meaning of onto. Its ending is -lle, for example pöytä (table) and pöydälle (onto the top of the table). ... In ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive is the grammatical case used to mark both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb. ... A syntactic category is either a phrasal category, such as noun phrase or verb phrase, which can be decomposed into smaller syntactic categories, or a lexical category, such as noun or verb, which cannot be further decomposed. ... A semantic property consists of the components of meaning of a word. ... A semantic class contains words that share a semantic property. ... Speech organs produce the many sounds needed for language. ... A concept is said to be self explanatory if it is written in a such way that explains the concept itself: no explanation is required except looking at what is meant to be self explanatory. ... In languages written in cuneiform, a phonetic complement is a sign used to indicate the type of the word it either precedes or follows. ... An ecolect is a language dialect unique to a household (from the Greek eco (oikos) for house, as in economy or ecology, and lect for language). ... Autosegmental phonology is a modification of generative phonology introduced by John Goldsmith in his PhD thesis in 1976. ... In cognitive linguistics, iconicity is the conceived similarity between a form of language and its meaning. ... False writing systems are artificially constructed alphabets or scripts used (sometimes within the context of a false document) to convey a degree of concealed verisimilitude. ... An adjectival phrase is a phrase with an adjective as its head (e. ... A sonority hierarchy or sonority scale is a way of acting like a moron by using wikipedia. ... In linguistics, Alternation is when a set of morphosyntactic properties is phonologically expressed in two or more different ways in different words. ... William Stokoe (pronounced Stokie) (1919 - 2000) was a scholar who researched American Sign Language (ASL) extensively while he worked at Gallaudet University. ... The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics. ... This article is about the goddess Athena. ... Proparoxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the antepenultimate syllable, that is, the last but two, the English words acromegaly and operational. ... Paroxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the syllable before the last syllable, , the English word canasta. ... Role and reference grammar (RRG) is a model of grammar developed by William Foley and Robert Van Valin in the 1980s. ... Obfuscation refers to the concept of concealing the meaning of communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret. ... Wakinyan (WAH-kee-yah, each n is nasalized almost to silence), Lakota (Teton Sioux) word for thunder. Wakinyan Oyate is a phrase meaning thunder people or thunder nation. Categories: Stub ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Cow-orker is a term widely used in Usenet for a co-worker, derived from a fortuitous typo, with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. ... Bad and Wrong is the description of something that is both badly designed and wrongly executed. ... Intuitive understanding is comprehension without any necessary contemplation or explanation. ... A parse tree is a tree that represents the syntactic structure of a string according to some formal grammar. ... Yid (when pronounced yeed) is the Yiddish word for Jew. ... Possibility comprises that which one can achieve, or alternatively ones potential. ... Terms of disparagement are pejorative terms such as yid, kike, nigger, whore, slut, fag and queer whose use usually arouses painful feelings in the target, members of the targeted group or sympathizers. ... A Silver Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary. ... The notorious malapropism of somdomite (sodomite) has echoed for over a hundred years, since John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensbury, the furious father of Oscar Wildes lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left his card for Wilde at the Albemarle Club, inscribed Wilde did not do the sensible thing, to... A hyponym (in Greek: υπονύμιον, literally meaning few names) is a word whose extension is included within that of another word. ... A fusional language (also called inflecting language) is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its tendency to squish together many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to segment. ... A vowel shift is a systematic change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language. ... A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective. ... The term Eastern can have multiple meanings depending on its context. ... Modal particles are always uninflected words, and are a type of grammatical particle. ... Brandenburgisch is a dialect spoken in Germany in the area around Berlin. ... Shirley Childress Saxton is a professional American Sign Language interpreter who joined the African American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1980. ... There are endless debates over what is the longest word in the English language, demonstrating that the idea of what constitutes a word is not as straightforward as it seems. ... Prolepsis (from the Greek prolambanein, to anticipate) can be: A figure of speech in which a future event is referred to in anticipation. ... In linguistics, the augment is a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages, most notably Greek (the augment survives and has been generalised in Modern Greek), Armenian, and the Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit, to form the perfect, preterite, or aorist tenses. ... Mora (plural moras or morae) is a unit of sound used in phonology that determines syllable weight (which in turn determines stress) in some languages. ... In linguistic semantics, a case role is any of the spatially-distinguished parts of a process. ... Ideography is a writing system. ... An object in this meaning is the same thing as an objective or task. ... Lexical semantics is a field in computer science and linguistics which deals mainly with word meaning. ... A verb phrase (VP) is a phrase whose head is a verb. ... In Ancient Rome, the Auriga was a slave whose duty was to drive a biga, the light vehicle powered by two horses, to transport some important Romans, mainly Duces (military commanders); it was then a sort of chauffeur for important men, and was carefully selected among trustworthy slaves only. ... In linguistics, collective number is a number referring to a set of things. ... Moral liability is a term used to describe an ethical situation in which a person is morally responsible. ... Any item (product or service) upon which there is a need to retrieve pre-defined information and that may be priced or ordered or invoiced at any point in any supply chain. ... Alienist was a somewhat derogatory and now obselete term for a psychiatrist or psychologist. ... Spoken language is a language that people utter words of the language. ... A written language is a language that uses a writing system to convey meaning, or more generally the written form of any language that has such written components. ... A Brazilian man dressed in the costume of a buffoon The term Buffoon is a term for someone who provides amusement by his inappropriate appearance or behavior or both. ... Something that is piggy-backed is something that is riding on the back of something else. ... A little dexterity is helpful in working with knitting needles Look up dexterity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Caveat lector is Latin phrase meaning Let the reader beware. The phrase is used in written English in two distinct ways. ... A finger fumbler is the sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister. ... The subjective case is the term preferred by English grammarians for the nominative case. ... The basic meaning of the Partitive case is partialness, without result or without specifying identity. In the Finnish language, its used to express unknown identities and irresultative actions. ... Meronymy (from the Greek words meros = part and onoma = name) is a semantic relation. ... Greek word meaning pleasure. ... ã represents a nasal A (IPA: /ɐ̃/). Being a typically Portuguese sound, it is sometimes used as a symbol of the Portuguese language. ... Edinu is an Akkadian word based on Sumerian eden plain, steppe. It is possibly the origin of Hebrew ʿēden mentioned in Genesis as the name of the territory within which God planted the garden commonly called today the Garden of Eden. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Central business district. ... Modus operandi (often used in the abbreviated form MO) is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as mode of operation. ... ... A PC bang is an Internet cafe in South Korea. ... Encomium is a Greek word which, in a general sense, means the praise of a person or thing. ... Tactition is the sense of pressure perception. ... Skinship (スキンシップ) is a wasei-eigo, or a Japanese word coined using English root origins, initially to describe the closeness between a mother and her child due to the physical contact of their naked skin. ... Symbolic communication is exchange of messages that change a priori expectation of events. ... Émigré is a French term that shows how Martin B. loves stephanie. ... Stylistics is the study of style used in literary, and verbal language and the effect the writer/speaker wishes to communicate to the reader/hearer. ... English pronunciation is divided into two main accent groups, the rhotic and the non-rhotic, depending on when the letter r (equivalent to Greek rho) is pronounced. ... Winkte is an old Lakota word, Winyanktehca, that has been contracted through long use. ... In computing, a shebang is a special line that begins an executable text file (commonly called a script) causing Unix-like operating systems to execute the commands in the text file using a specific interpreter (program). ... Linguistic relativism is the principle that language is tied to the perceptions of the language user. ... Bancomat is the term used to refer to automatic teller machines in continental Europe. ... Wetback is a derogatory term for a Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border, often by either swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. ... Pharyngealisation is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx is constricted during the articulation of the sound. ... Moderation is the process of eliminating or lessening extremes. ... A virtue word is a word intended to invoke a positive image, sometimes for the purposes of propaganda. ... Gaydar (a portmanteau of gay and radar) is the intuitive ability to determine whether another person is gay or bisexual. ... Help is a strong word used to indicate distress or the need for assistance. ... Pseudo is a prefix of Greek origin. ... Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum), from the Latin meaning great work, refers to the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer. ... The information pyramid is used to describe the relationship among different information-oriented terms. ... Journalese is the artificial or hyperbolic language regarded as characteristic of the popular media. ... In X-bar theory in linguistics, specifiers, head words, and complements together form phrases. ... Cocacolonization or coca-colonization is a term for Americanization. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Diction is the art of enunciating with clarity, of speaking in such a way that each word is clearly heard. ... Identity creation is the process of creating a new personal identity or alias for an existing person. ... Mixed case is the standard usage of upper-case and lower-case letters. ... Kavi is the oldest script of Javanese language, and is derived from the Indic Brahmi. ... In Utero is the third and final studio album from the American grunge/punk band Nirvana. ... The phrase Dutch courage is a slang term for courage gained from intoxication by alcohol. ... Look up Polemic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Polemic is the art or practice of inciting disputation or causing controversy, for example in religious, philosophical, or political matters. ... A trigraph (from the Greek words tria = three and grapho = write) is a group of three letters used to represent a single sound. ... Malika is the female version of the word Malik that means King in Arabic. ... Horos, khoros (χορός) means dance in Greek language. ... Burbled is a word best known from its use in Lewis Carrolls poem Jabberwocky and is often supposed to have been invented by him. ... A Scissorbill is an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) term for someone who refused to join the union or who openly colluded with management to thwart the union. ... In the fiction of C. S. Lewis, hnau is an Old Solar word which refers to sentients such as Humans. ... The term status quo ante bellum comes from Latin meaning literally, as things were before the war. ... Bound morphemes can only occur when attached to root morphemes. ... Not safe for work (NSFW), not worksafe (NWS), or not schoolsafe is Internet slang or shorthand. ... A person who is right-handed is more dextrous with their right hand than with their left hand: they will write with their right hand, and probably also use this hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. ... The term city fathers is used in the United States as a municipal version of Founding Fathers. ... A comma splice is committed when two independent sentences are joined by a comma, such as the following (incorrect) sentence: The proper punctuation here is the semicolon: Commas are sometimes acceptable when the clauses are short and alike in form, such as (Examples from the online 1918 edition of The... A Prebound book is a book that was previously bound and has been rebound with a library quality hardcover binding. ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... In morphology, the terminative case is a case that indicates to what point; where something ends. ... Categories: Stub | Slang ... A list of Swedish proverbs with English equivalents can be found at Wikiquote:Swedish proverbs. ... Argumentum ad crumenam is a logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the person making the argument is rich. ... Argumentum ad lazarum is the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the subject of the argument is poor. ... Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes erroneously spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from Tierra del Fuego listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the most succinct word. It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants... Guangyun (Chinese: 廣韻) is a rime dictionary. ... The tone contours of Standard Mandarin Tone contours are numbers that represent the way pitch varies over a syllable. ... Eala Freya Fresena is a Frisian proverb, roughly translated as Oh, you free Frisians!, but correct it means Get up Free Frisian! and reverses the feudal kneel down procedure. ... Language Engineering Building language processing systems whose cost and outputs are measurable and predictable. ... A tocsin consists of a signal of alarm given by the ringing of a bell, and hence any warning or danger signal. ... In the study of phonetic changes, a chain shift is a type of sound shift in which a group of sounds all change at about the same time, with some sounds taking the place of others. ... Ennui (Pronunciation: ) is a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction. ... In communications and linguistics, bypassing is misunderstanding that develops when the recipient of a message infers a different meaning from that intended by the source. ... A secretary is a person who performs routine, administrative, or personal tasks for a superior. ... A procatalepsis is a rhetorical figure or strategy in which the writer raises an objection and then immediately answers it; by doing so, the rhetor seeks to strengthen his argument by dealing with possible objections before his audience can raise counter-arguments. ... The subjective pronouns are pronouns used as the subject of a sentence; in other words, the initiator or instigator of a verb. ... Assimilation is a regular and frequent sound change process by which a phoneme changes to match an adjacent phoneme in a word. ... In computing, lemmatisation is the process of calculating the lemma for a given word. ... Strategic materials are materials needed in order to prosecute a war. ... Previdential is from the Italian word previdenza, meaning social security, used in the Italian legal and insurance business as an translation for previdenza, seems to be totally unknown outside some Italian websites, and the EU-Equal Terms office. ... A pericope (pur-IC-op-ee) (Greek περικοπη, a cutting-out) in rhetoric is a set of verses which form one coherent unit or thought. ... A la carte (also à la carte), is a French phrase meaning from the menu, and it is used in restaurant terminology in one of two ways: First, it may refer to a menu of items priced and ordered separately rather than selected from a list of preset multi-course meals... In linguistics, an interrogative word is a function word used to introduce an interrogative clause. ... The Scots Vowel-Length Rule, also known as Aitkens Law after Professor A.J. Aitken who formulated it, describes how vowel length in Scots and Scottish English is conditioned by environment. ... The term ransom refers to the practice of holding a prisoner to extort money or property extorted to secure their release, or to the sum of money involved. ... The voiced alveolo-palatal voiceless or laminal postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Native Son (1940) is a novel by African-American author Richard Wright. ... Irish twins is a slang term that refers to siblings born 9 to 12 months apart - usually in the same calendar year, or who are in the same class in school. ... Normal for Norfolk (or NFN) is a slang term used in some parts of England for something that is peculiar, or weird. ... An alveolar ridge is one of the two jaw ridges either on the roof of the mouth between the upper teeth and the hard palate or on the bottom of the mouth behind the lower teeth. ... Look up Circa on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Latin word circa, literally meaning about, is often used to describe various dates (often birth and death dates) that are uncertain. ... Noah Websters Dissertation on the English Language was written in 1789 to further explain American English. ... A North Briton is a term used for a Scottish person who identifies themselves as British and Unionist by supporting the integrity of the United Kingdom. ... A necronym is a reference to or name of a person who has died. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Paralanguage describes the non-verbal elements of communication, often used (consciously or unconsciously) to convey emotion. ... Saxon-English is the use of Saxon language, an ancestor of modern English, with modern English. ... Ajahn (Thai: อาจารย์) is teacher in the Thai language; it is derived from the (Pali) word ācārya. ... A prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. ... Emphatic consonant is a somewhat imprecise term commonly used in Semitic linguistics to describe pharyngealized or velarized, and ejective consonants, or consonants that historically had one of these properties. ... In professional wrestling, a work is slang for a staged event (that is, one that enforces kayfabe). ... An extended metaphor, also called a conceit, is a metaphor that continues into the following sentences. ... Techno- is a prefix for technology-related terms. ... A paronym or paronyme is a word that is related to another word and derives from the same root; a cognate word. ... From Greek -phobia, fear of. ... This case in Hungarian language combines the Causal case and the Final case: it can express the cause of emotions (eg. ... In Hungarian language this case combines the Essive case and the Formal case, and it can express the position, task, state (eg. ... The delative case (from Latin deferre to bear or bring away or down) in the Hungarian language can originally express the movement from the surface of something (eg. ... This case in Hungarian language can express the destination of the movement, originally to the surface of something (eg. ... This case in Hungarian language can express the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has (Essive case, eg. ... Look up Cha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The following universities have phonetics departments: Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle MIT University College London (Phonetics and Linguistics) External link http://www. ... Semantic discord is the situation where two parties disagree on the definition of a word or several words essential to communicating or formulating any concept at issue. ... The Modern English adjectival suffix -ic was first seen as a suffix in English during the Middle English period. ... In phonetics, vowel height refers to the position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth in a vowel sound. ... A near-front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. ... A near-back vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. ... An agentive ending in the English language is the use of the suffix -er, -or, -ist, or -ian at the end of a verb in order to create a noun meaning someone who does the action the verb describes. ... In phonetics, vowel backness is the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth in a vowel sound. ... Look up Stick in the mud on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Vowels Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel. ... A Logosyllabary is a type of writing system whose symbols (or graphemes) are mostly composed of both syllables and logograms. ... 9 to 5 is a phrase which refers to the time (9:00AM to 5:00PM, or 0900h - 1700h) at which some office employees work each day, usually from Monday to Friday. ... A Purvey is a meal provided after a funeral by the family of the deceased to the mourners. ... The name Never Never Land often refers generally to a fantastic or imaginary place - one is said to be off in never never land when one is coming up with completely impractical ideas, distracted, etc. ... A verb applicative is a morpheme that increases the valency of a verb by adding a new core argument to it. ... A term used in radio voice procedure, the conventions used in radio conversation, in the British military and the military of nations strongly influenced by the British. ... The reading copy of a book is usually well-used, may include highlighting or marginalia, and is suitable for reading, but is usually not collectible. ... This article is about the origins and meaning of the phrase. ... Devils beatin his wife is an expression which refers to rain while the sun shines. ... In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant is a member of a class of speech sounds that are continuants produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract. ... IINM is an Internet initialism that stands for If Im Not Mistaken. ... The benefactive case is a case used where English would use for, for the benefit of, or intended for. ... This is a list of English words borrowed from Scottish Gaelic: bard  From bàrd, poet or reciter. ... A phonogram is a group of words which share the same letter combination associated with a sound, such as rhyming words. ... Sloka meter is a Sanskrit meter consisting of two lines of sixteen syllables each. ... Bed load is a term to describe the large particles that are carried along the bottom of a stream. ... Xenography is the ability to write in a language which the individual has not learnt. ... Xenolalia is the ability to speak in a language which the individual has not learnt. ... A perverb (contraction of perverse proverb) is a sentence that starts out like a well-known proverb or other expression, but ends in such an unexpected way that the listener is forced to back up and re-parse several words in order to get its sense. ... Machine translation can use a method based on dictionary entries, which means that the words will be translated as a dictionary does — word by word, usually without much correlation of meaning between them. ... The term mediascape describes the way that visual imagery now impacts on our world. ... TANJ is an acronym for There Aint No Justice. ... Like Japanese and Chinese, Korean uses special measure or counting words to count objects and events. ... Within the school of linguistics called Generative Grammar, distributed morphology is a framework for theories of morphology popularized in 1993 by Morris Halle and Alec Marantz, who developed ideas earlier put forward by David Pesetsky (credited by Halle and Marantz as the coiner of the term distributed morphology), Rochelle Lieber... A symbolic linguistic representation is a representation of an utterance that uses symbols to represent linguistic information about the utterance, such as information about phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, or semantics. ... In phonetics, a diphone is an adjacent pair of phones. ... In English history, Conformists were those whose religious practices conformed with the requirements of the Act of Uniformity and so were in concert with the Established Church, the Church of England, as opposed to those of Nonconformists whose practices were not acceptable to the Church of England. ... A dead metaphor is a metaphor that through overuse has lost figurative value. ... Engineered languages (sometimes abbreviated to engelangs), are constructed languages devised to test or prove some hypothesis about how languages work or might work. ... A functional work is a work that can be considered to be of practical use, such as software, encyclopedias, dictionaries and textbooks. ... Trans-Tasman is an adjective used primarily in Australia and New Zealand, which signifies an interrelationship between both countries. ... Understatement is a form of speech where a lesser expression is used than what would be expected; a commonly cited example is The Rocky Mountains are scenic. ... Elocution is proper speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone. ... A finite verb is a verb that is inflected for person and for tense according to the rules and categories of the languages it occurs in. ... A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech that uses an unexpected ending to a series or phrase. ... Ginny is a short form of the name Virginia and somewhat less prone to cruel nicknames. ... Mensch (Yiddish מענטש; also mentsch, mentsh, mensh, or mench, plural - mentchen) is a German noun meaning a human. In Yiddish (from which the word has migrated into American English), mensch roughly means a good person. ... The sound sh [S], occurs as an interjection, meaning quiet!, in many languages, including English, Hebrew , Polish. ... As distinguished from episteme, the Greek word techne (literally: craftsmanship) is often translated as craft or art. ... Nomen nescio, abbreviated to N.N., is used to signify an anonymous or non-specific person. ... The band Cacophony Cacophony - Sounding badly, antonym to harmony. ... Gallows humor is humor that makes light of death or other serious matters. ... // Fat cat is slang term which describes a rich, greedy person who, due to ownership of large amounts of capital, is able to live easy off the work of others. ... Montague grammar is an approach to natural language semantics, based on formal logic, especially lambda calculus and set theory. ... Isoglosses on the Faroe Islands An isogloss is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, e. ... In phrase structure grammars, such as generalised phrase structure grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar and lexical functional grammar, a feature structure is essentially a list of property types with values. ... Eros is the Greek word for (especially) romantic or sexual love. ... In linguistics, a phatic expression is one whose only function is to perform a social task. ... The International Circle of Korean Linguistics is a scholarly organization dedicated to the promotion of awareness of, the dissemination of information about, and the facilitation of communication among those in the field of, Korean language and linguistics. ... The idea of an alphabet of human thought originates in the 17th century, when proposals were first made for a universal language. ... Look up gravitas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Literally, alphabet soup is a kind of soup containing noodles shaped like the letters of an alphabet. ... Spatial tenses are a category of tenses not found in English. ... A klutz is person who is clumsy, foolish, inept, or accident-prone. ... Socratici viri is a Latin phrase which translates as Socrates men - though it is more usually used to mean disciples of Socrates or followers of Socrates. ... Wino is a slang term used to describe people who consume large amounts of cheap wine, sometimes applied to consumers of other forms of alcohol beverages. ... Epideixis is a Greek term referring to a lavish and showey speech. ... A plurale tantum (plural pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural and does not have a singular. ... Rutana is one of the 17 provinces of Burundi. ... The lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is the meaning of the term in common usage. ... Bapak, meaning father in Bahasa Indonesia, is the familiar form of the more polite, more formal Pak which is given as a courtesy title to all older men in Indonesia. ... In linguistics, a basilect is a dialect of speech that has diverged so far from the standard language that in essence it has become a different language. ... Focus and Topic in Languages All Languages have a way of stressing which part of a clause the speaker is focusing on, which parts they wish to stress. ... Assault and battery is the combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (actual physical violence). ... Picture Cover is a common term among book collectors. ... The Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights is a document signed by Unesco, the PEN Clubs, and several non-governmental organizations in 1996 to support linguistic rights, especially those of endangered languages. ... A Golden Parachute is a clause in the contract of a CEO or other executive officers of a corporation, that if the corporation is acquired it pays them a certain amount of money, or stock options. ... Nosh is the Yiddish Word for Snack food. ... Hypallage is a literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in her beautys face). ... A fork in the road is a place where one road divides into two, without either of them clearly being a turn off the main route. ... Holonymy (in Greek holon = whole and onoma = name) is a semantic relation. ... A lateral affricate is an affricate with a lateral consonant. ... Prepositional case is a grammatical case that marks prepositions. ... Rewson is a military acronym. ... In linguistics, a squib is a short article that is intended to ignite thinking and discourse by others on topics of theoretical importance - e. ... An augmentative is a suffix or prefix added to a word in order to convey the sense of a larger size. ... The imperfective aspect, sometimes known as the continuous or progressive aspect, is a grammatical aspect. ... Taken from the line Its more than my jobs worth . ... The Sun Language Theory is a linguistic theory proposing that all human languages are descendents of one Central Asian primal language. ... A cleft sentence is a sentence formed by a main clause and a subordinate clause, which together express a meaning that could be shown using a simple sentence, but focusing on a particular constituent. ... Bahman is the name of 11th month in Iranian calendar. ... Ten Foot Pole is a pop-punk band formerly on Epitaph Records. ... A crackhead is a person who is addicted to crack cocaine. ... Tagmemics is a linguistic theory developed by Kenneth L. Pike in his book Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior, 3 vol. ... The term Monarchomachs was coined by William Barclay in his book De Regno et Regali Potestate (About the Powers of Authority and Royalty), published in 1600. ... For the band, see Homie (band). ... — Paul G 08:49, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) Word-and-paradigm or Realizational morphology concentrates on the word form rather than segments of the word. ... In linguistics, the head is the morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member. ... As described by Eric S. Raymond, hackish is a sociolect of the english language used by members of the hacker subculture. ... In linguistics, a sociolect is the language spoken by a social group, social class or subculture. ... This article describes sound symbolic or mimetic words in the Japanese language. ... A pandego is an artistic collaboration licensed under an open-content (copyleft) licence. ... In linguistics, a cranberry morpheme is a bound morpheme that exists only in one lexeme. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Downdrift is a linguistic phenomenon defined as the lowering of high tones that are separated by low tones. ... The idiom the straw that broke the camels back is from an Arab proverb about loading up a camel beyond its capacity to move. ... Inferential role semantics is an approach to the theory of meaning associated closely with accounts of proof-theoretic semantics in the semantics of logic into work as the foundational formalism of logic. ... Truth-conditional semantics is the name for an approach to semantics of natural language that sees the meaning of a sentence being the same as, or reducible to, the truth conditions of that sentence. ... In linguistics, free morphemes are morphemes that can stand alone, unlike bound morphemes, which only occur as parts of words. ... To have the fantods is to be in a state of nervousness, distress, or anxiety. ... Conceptual Semantics is a framework for semantic analysis developed mainly by Ray Jackendoff. ... A blanket term is a word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things. ... Banyan days are a British naval tradition that has changed meaning over the years. ... Dear Old Blighty was a common expression of longing for home in the British Army during World War I. It is a sentimental reference. ... The term bouma (pronounced bowma) is sometimes used in the work of cognitive psychology to mean the shape of a cluster of letters, often a whole word. ... Mokusatsu (黙殺) is a Japanese word formed from two chinese characters: silence (moku, é»™) and kill (satsu, 殺) and means the act of keeping a contemptuous silence. ... [It] does exactly what it says on the tin is a popular phrase in the United Kingdom, which originated in a series of television commercials by the woodstain and wood-dye manufacturer Ronseal, initiated in the late 1980s and still running as of 2005. ... The taluk or taluka or talook is a term used in various native languages of India to denote the revenue districts. ... Vocal apparatus is a term used in phonetics to designate all parts of human anatomy that can be used to produce speech. ... In phonetics, velaric ingressive is an airstream mechanism where a sound is produced by a closure of the velum (or soft palate) and other place of articulation in the front of the oral cavity (such as the alveolar ridge or the lips), and then sucking air in while simultaneously releasing... Newcastle in Britain is a coal mining, distributing and selling hub. ... The Russians are coming is a famous saying attributed to James Forrestal (in full, it is supposed to be: ).  He allegedly uttered these words while being mentally ill, not long before committing suicide. ... The term Blacktress is used to describe any of a number of African American women who were pioneers of the film industry. ... Jesus freak was originally a derogatory term applied to those involved in the Jesus Movement of the 1960s and 1970s who were often considered overzealous in their passion for Jesus. ... The Linguasphere Observatory is a language research network. ... Functional shift is a term used in linguistics to refer to the way an existing word can take on a new syntactic function. ... Hobbledehoy is an old Scots word for an awkward rustic adolescent boy or teenager. ... Office types Class A office space Back office Front office Mobile office Paperless office Serviced office Small office/home office Virtual office A mobile office is an office built within a truck, motorhome, trailer or purpose built shipping container. ... The phrase mechanic arts is an obsolete and archaic term. ... The Prague Linguistic Circle founded as Cercle Linguistique de Prague (in Czech Pražský lingvistický kroužek) in Prague, became known around the world as the Prague School. ... The term land of the blacks was one applied to regions of Africa by almost all outsiders. ... Enunciation is the act of speaking clearly and concisely. ... Identification when dealing with information (specifically data stored in databases) is the capability to find, retrieve, report, change, or delete specific data without ambiguity. ... Maldevelopment is the state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the normal way (used in medicine, e. ... The term secondary orality was coined by Walter J. Ong in the early 1970s. ... Year dot is an old-fashioned expression meaning a very long time ago. ... Wasei-eigo (和製英語 wasei eigo, lit. ... A fricative articulated with the vocal cords vibrating. ... Ad fontes is a Latin expression which means that fundamental research is very important in politics, history and science. ... Topic-focus articulation is a field of study in linguistics. ... A clause is a group of words consisting of a subject (often just a single noun) and a predicate (sometimes just a single verb). ... A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. ... The serial verb construction is a syntactic phenomenon common in many African and Asian languages. ... Primary metaphor is a term named by Joe Grady for the basic connection that exist between vague experiences such as good and concrete experiences such as up. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Lota is a Hindi and Urdu word for pot. Though it may refer to any pot, the term is most commonly employed for a container filled with water to facilitate the cleaning of ones anal region after defecation. ... Dependency grammar (DG) is a class of syntactic theories separate from generative grammar. ... Consilium abeundi is a Latin phrase meaning go out. ... Monoglottism (Greek monos, alone, solitary, + glotta, tongue, language) is the condition of being able to speak only a single language. ... In linguistics, a diasystem is a term used in structural dialectology, to refer to a single genetic language which has two or more standard forms. ... Esthesic and poietic are terms used in semiotics, the study of signs, to describe perceptive and productive levels, processes, and analyses of symbolic forms. ... The philosopher Paul Grice proposed four conversational maxims that arise from the pragmatics of natural language. ... In semiotics the neutral level of a sign is the trace left behind, the physical or material creation or remains of esthesic and poietic processes, levels, and analyses of symbolic forms. ... German modal particles (Modalpartikel) are modal particles in German. ... A box social is a form of fundraiser, wherein donated lunch boxes are auctioned off for some cause (usually charity or raising money), or, alternatively, a woman creates a lunch, which is then auctioned off. ... In the aviation industry, the term is used for temporary lodging for airline flight crews. ... Semagram, literally semantic symbol, is a picture or glyph associated with a concept. ... Jargon code is a secret language or phrases expressed in it, used to communicate secretly. ... The expression immaculate perception has been used in various senses by various philosophers. ... The Mentalist Postulate is the thesis that meaning in natural language is an information structure that is mentally encoded by human beings. ... Fair-haired is an expression used to refer to someone who has blonde hair. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Chibchombia is a nickname used to call the Republic of Colombia. ... Snark refers to a belittling style of speech or writing. ... Japorea is a term that came in to use in the English speaking European-based media in reference to the FIFA World Cup that was held in both Japan and Korea. ... Unclassified languages are languages whose genetic affiliation has not been established, mostly due to lack of reliable data. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... Emasculation is the removal of the genitalia of a male, notably the penis and/or the testicles, by surgery, violence, or accident (see castration). ... No pain, no gain is a exercise slogan that came to prominence in the bodybuilding community. ... Global context registries are a simple, human-friendly way to indicate the global context of an i-name or i-number. ... In pragmatics, the origo is the reference point on which deictic relationships are based. ... A large, refereed on-line journal, covering most areas of theoretical, applied and historical linguistics. ... An honorific is something that is attached to the name but is not normally used elsewhere, e. ... Gender transposition is a term in linguistics to describe the substitution of the masculine personal pronoun for the feminine form. ... This article is about the elder Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965). ... In photography a viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and in many cases to focus, the picture. ... Popularized by the Saturday Night Live sketch Waynes World, schwing is a slang term used as an exclamation of excitement or appreciation for the female form (example: Youve just won the lottery! Schwing!). In essence, the term is used to represent the act of achieving an erection. ... In the British Police, Woodentop is a slang term used by Criminal Investigation Department detectives to refer to uniformed police officers. ... See Pausha for the Hindu month Pausa (Latin for break) in linguistics refers to the end of an utterance. ... Reive is a Scots word meaning to plunder or to rob, also spelt Reave in English, which comes from the Old English reafian. ... In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same. ... The past historical is a tense in Romance languages used to refer to events that occurred and were completed in the past. ... Yenta (YEN-tah) is a Yiddish word referring to a busybody or gossip. ... A tripartite language is one that marks the agent, experiencer, and patient verb arguments each in different ways. ... Vigilance is the act of watching for something to happen, of watching for danger. ... Migra, or la Migra, is a term used within Spanish Speaking immigrant communities in the United States as a way to refer to U.S. government entities or officials that enforce U.S. immigration laws such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, especially when it is believed that a crackdown... Going to Hell in a handbasket is a way of saying something or a situation is quickly taking a turn for the worse without effort or with great haste. ... The temporal case in morphology is used to indicate a time. ... A Mexican breakfast is an American idiom for a breakfast consisting of a cigarette and a glass of water, supposedly because that is all Mexicans can afford. ... An apical consonant is a phone produced by obstructing the air passage with the apex of the tongue (i. ... In semiotics syntagmatic analysis is analysis of syntax or surface structure (Syntagmatic structure), rather than paradigms as in paradigmatic analysis. ... Tastes like chicken is a comical, all-purpose phrase to describe the taste of unique food. ... The prosecutive case is a declension found in Tundra Nenets language. ... Scotochromogenic bacteria develop pigment in the dark or in the light. ... The Triangle of Death is a name given by U.S. and allied forces during the 2003-2004 occupation of Iraq to a region south of Baghdad which saw major combat activity during the last months of 2004. ... The traditional meaning of booty is something both valuable and acquired by force or daring. ... Nokor is a Khmer word derived from the Sanskrit word nagara (city). In Khmer, the word means Kingdom. When used as Nokor Khmer it means Kingdom of Cambodia. ... The Chicago Protocol is a method for the testing of all Combustion Appliances for Carbon Monoxide emissions. ... This article is about murmur in regards to speech, for alternate meanings see Murmur. ... A rhyming dictionary is a specialist dictionary designed for use in writing poetry. ... Interlinguistics is the study of various aspects of international communication. ... Thomas Derrick was a notable English executioner from the Elizabethan era. ... Prydain is the Welsh name of the island of Britain. ... A tieback is a loop of cloth, cord, etc, which is placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side. ... Synthetic personalisation is the process by which texts treat their mass audiences as if they were individuals. ... Vrddhi is a Sanskrit word meaning growth (cognate to English weird, Old English wyrd). ... In linguistics, metanalysis is the act of breaking down a word or phrase into segments or meanings not original to it. ... a direct quotation is clear quote said by a person and generally involves a whole sentence, it is absoultly correct in the order and is specfic. ... The privative a (or a privativum) is the prefix a- expressing negation (e. ... Rada is the term for council or assembly borrowed by Polish from Middle High German Rat (council) and later passed into Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages. ... By the Pricking of My Thumbs is the first half of a line in William Shakespeares play Macbeth. ... Mummerset is an invented English language dialect used by actors that mimics the stereotypical speech of rural Southern England, while not being specific to one area. ... Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono is the title of The Sultan that rules Yogyakarta Special Region province of Indonesia. ... Crab mentality describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase if I cant have it, neither can you. ... The expression umbrella term means a word that provides a superset or grouping of related concepts. ... In-Silico Modeling and Conformational Mobility of String Pointer Reduction System (SPRS) Based on DNA Computers ... In linguistics and grammar, the interrogative mood is a grammatical mood used for asking questions. ... Leísmo (using le) is a phenomenon in the Spanish language that involves using the indirect object pronoun le in place of the (standard) masculine direct object pronoun lo, especially when the direct object is animate. ... Tungjatjeta - a greeting word in Albanian, which translated word by word means may you have a long life (Tu (Tu) ngjate (zgjatte) jeta ) Its everyday use meaning is different though; it simply means hello or hi ... Suicide Tuesday (or Tuesday blues, Ecstasy Tuesday) is a slang term for the depressive period following the use of Ecstasy. ... Khuz signifies sugar cane, according to eptomology. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Fudge factor is a margin over and above the required resources such as time, capital, human capital, cost required for a certain project. ... A tertulia is a social gathering with literary or artistic overtones, especially in Iberia or Latin America. ... Copy prevention, also known as copy protection, is any technical measure designed to prevent duplication of information. ... Language shift is the process whereby an entire speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language. ... Language convergence is a type of contact-induced change whereby languages of equal social prestige with many bilingual speakers mutually borrow morphological and syntactic features, making their typology more similar. ... An autonomous language or variety is usually a standard language that has its own established norms, as opposed to a heteronomous variety. ... A heteronomous language is a variety oriented towards an autonomous language. ... A Proleptic calendar or era is that calendar extrapolated to dates prior the its first adoption. ... Neo-McCarthyism is a term used in Dazed and Confused, in a line given from Mike to Pink on the topic of the football coachs decision to implement a contract saying that the signer will not indulge in any illegal activity over the summer. ... The Ganapatha (gaṇapāṭha) is a list of groups of words used by the Ashtadhyayi grammar by Panini (scholar). ... Bleat is a noun describing the baa vocal noise made by several woolly ruminant quadrupeds, most commonly the Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), which probably descends from the wild urial of south-central and south-west Asia. ... This article should be transwikied to wiktionary (adj. ... Mono no aware (Japanese: 物の哀れ IPA: ??; literally, the pathos of things) is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of the impermanence of things, and a gentle sadness at their passing. ... Skitts law is an adage in Internet culture that originated on Usenet. ... Maître à penser is a French language phrase, denoting a teacher whom one chooses, in order to learn not just a set of facts or point of view, but a way of thinking. ... A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English, and generally infers longer vowel sounds and/or dipthongs. ... Also called discourse prosody, it describes the tendency of certain words to co-occur with either negative or positive expressions. ... An oral vowel is a vowel that is produced by air that escapes through the mouth only (as opposed to nasal vowels, in which air also goes out through the nose). ... A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. ... According to its web site, the American Dialect Society, founded in 1889, is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. ... Maestoso (Mie-eh-stoe-zoe) is Italian for majestic. ... Inalienable possession is a relationship between two objects indicating that they are (possibly on a less-than-physical level) connected in some way that cannot be changed. ... Twi- is an Old English prefix for two. ... An interpretant, in Semiotics, is the effect of a sign on someone who reads or comprehends it. ... An event is described as standing room only when it is so well-attended that all of the chairs in the venue are occupied leaving only flat spaces of pavement or flooring for other attendees to stand. ... The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) is a non-profit academic association, which was formally registered as a charitable organization in Hong Kong on March 8, 1986. ... To do something by the numbers means to do it exactly, precisely. ... In linguistics, a superfamily (or macrofamily) is a phyletic unit encompassing several language families. ... In phonetics and phonology, a syllable onset is the part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus. ... Syntaxis (contrasted to parataxis) is a writing or rhetorical style that favors complex syntax, as against simple sentence structures. ... A verbum dicendi (or declaratory word) is a word that expresses speech, introduces a quotation, or marks a transition to non-standard or non-grammatical speech. ... An informal code word is a term used, without formal agreement and in many cases without any prior agreement, with the intention of communicating more to one or more listeners or readers, who are predisposed to see its double meaning, than to another or others. ... Jasyr means prisoner amongst the Cossacks which derives from the Arabic word esr via Turkish or the Tatar language. ... Ethnopoetics refers to poetic traditions which are typically seen as tribal or otherwise ethnic by the West (or indeed between any ethnoculturally different peoples). ... A concordancer is a computer program that automatically constructs a concordance. ... The generic mood, in linguistics, is a mood used to make generalized comments about a class of thing. ... Dreimorengesetz is a German term which translates to three mora rule. ... Haplography is the act of writing once what should be written twice. ... Dissimilation, in the context of phonology, is a phenomenon whereby similar consonant sounds in a word have a tendency to become different over time, so as to ease pronunciation. ... Wessi is the informal name that people in Germany call citizens of West Germany before re-unification. ... Oligosynthetic (from the Greek ολίγοι, meaning few) is a hypothetical designation for a language using an extremely small array of morphemes, perhaps numbering only in the hundreds, which combine synthetically to form statements. ... The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) is an international organization founded in 1981 devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. ... The term acrites (frontiersman) is the transliteration of the Greek word ακρίτης, deriving from άκρα meaning edges - frontiers, being the Greek rendition of Latin limitaneus. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Visible speech is the name of the system used by Alexander Melville Bell, who was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. ... An initialism for Qualified Vendors List, usually 3rd-party products that meet specific compatibility guidelines. ... In semiotics, a signifying chain is an interlocking system of signifiers. ... Nota Bene is a Latin phrase meaning Note Well, coming from notâre -- to note. ... The word smashing is used in common parlance in the United Kingdom and Australia to denote that something is well done. ... The chereme (From the Greek χέρι, hand), is the basic unit of signed communication. ... A Mickey Mouse Operation is a derogatory colloquial term for an organisation or a group of people who dont know what they are doing or have no set goals or ideals. ... Scrutiny (Fr. ... A mesolect is a register of spoken language whose character falls somewhere between the prestige of the acrolect and the informality of the basilect. ... Mens sana in corpore sano is a famous quotation by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis. ... Hiatus in linguistics is the separate pronunciation of two adjacent vowels, sometimes with an intervening glottal stop. ... Nuclear Polynesian refers to those languages comprising the Samoic the Eastern Polynesian branches of the Polynesian group of Austronesian languages. ... Highbrow is a colloquial synonym for intellectual. ... Kampong or kampung is a word in Malay and Indonesian language which means village. The word is also a common title for names of places in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore which, although modern, retains the word kampong for historical purposes. ... Aphorismus is a figure of speech that calls into question the meaning of a word (How can you call yourself a man?). It often appears in the form of a rhetorical question and is meant to imply a distinction between the present subject and the general notion or ideal of... The Bawm are a tribal group living in the Bandarban district and a small fraction in the Rangamati district of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. ... A1 at Lloyds is an expression that denotes utmost excellence which traces its origins to Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping, a prestigious society that sets standards for ship construction. ... In phonetics, an obstruent is a consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway. ... Moving the yardsticks is a common expression which means making progress and is used in political and corporate venues to express proactive actions. ... Interlocked word order, in the form A-B-A-B; a favourite with Latin poets. ... Synesis is a grammatical term, also known as constructio ad sensum In Latin, a construction in which a word takes the gender or number, not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other word implied in that word. ... Going over the top is a military phrase derived from the trench warfare of the First World War. ... ad hoc - for this purpose amicus curiae - friend of the court bona fide - in good faith corpus delicti - body of the crime, i. ... In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs. ... See Elative for disambiguation. ... Black gold, in most of the world, refers to crude oil or petroleum. ... Auditory phonetics is a branch of phonetics concerned with the hearing, acquisition and comprehension of phonetic sounds of words of a language. ...