Content word

Content word

Word that has meaning in a sentence, such as a verb or noun (as opposed to a structure word, such as pronoun or auxiliary verb); content words are stressed in speech.

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content word

Language; Grammar

Word that has meaning in a sentence, such as a verb or noun (as opposed to a structure word, such as pronoun or auxiliary verb); content words are stressed in speech.

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Printing & publishing; Publishing

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Computer; Software; Software engineering

(1) A sequence of bits, or characters that is stored, addressed, transmitted, and operated on as a unit within a given computer.~(2) An element of computer storage that can hold a ...

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Telecommunications; General telecom

A character string or a bit string considered to be an entity for some purpose. Note: In telegraph communications, six character intervals are defined as a word when computing ...

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Automation; Industrial automation

A grouping or a number of bits in a sequence that is treated as a unit.

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Software; Globalization software service

(1) A character string considered as a unit for a given purpose. (2) A fundamental unit of storage that refers to the amount of data that can be processed at a time. Word size is ...

antecedent

Language; Grammar

An antecedent is a word, phrase or clause that determines what a pronoun that follows refers to.

adjunct

Language; Grammar

A type of adverbial indicating the circumstances of the action. Adjuncts may be obligatory or optional. They express such relations as time, place, manner, reason, condition, i.e. ...

lexical item

Language; Grammar

A lexical item is a unit of language representing a particular area of meaning which has a unique pattern of co-occurrence with other lexical items. It cannot always be identified ...

press

Language; Grammar

According to Merriam-Webster, when "press" is used in a journalistic context it can refer to "news reporters, publishers, and broadcasters." However, when used as a verb, "press" ...

prefix

Language; Grammar

A prefix consists of letters placed before a word in order to form a new word. Common prefixes in the English language include: un-, dis-, pre-, post-, and en-. For example, the ...

suffix

Language; Grammar

A suffix is a letter or letters added tothe end of a word to modify its meaning. One common suffix is -s or -es, used to change a noun from singular to plural. An example would ...

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