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semantic

semantic

24 6.7
About the meaning of words and sentences
  • adjective
  • /sɪˈmæntɪk/
translation icon : semántico
  • Understanding semantic relationships helps clarify how words convey different meanings in context.
  • semantic model
  • semantic cue
  • semantic representation

So that's to me is a semantic problem.

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Examples

  • Agents who inhabit the same world are related to one another along shared semantic dimensions.

    Academic text (1990)
  • No standard political concept has been more subject to semantic abuse, not even that of democracy.

    Academic text (1999)
  • But this is where semantic range is very important.

  • OK, so this is, I guess we would call this a semantic crime.

  • Now, whether that argument is right or wrong is actually more semantic than anything else.

  • Our point here is simply the familiar semantic one but applied across languages and across cultural lines.

    Academic text (1990)
  • So you get new words are brought in, old words change their meaning, you get semantic drift, right.

  • An alternative to the relational model is a semantic data model.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Goodman focused on how the reader used syntactic and semantic knowledge in the process of reading.

    Academic text (1990)
  • There's a process that's called semantic priming.

Synonyms

definitional
vssemantic
4 6.6

About the meaning of a word or idea

is broader, studying meaning generally across language and logical contexts
interpretational
vssemantic
1 7.5

About ways or rules people use to decide the meaning of texts and data

is about meaning and its study rather than methods for explaining texts

Compounds

semantic error
  • Specialized
6.9

An error in a program's logic that makes it give wrong results even when the code runs without errors

semantic memory
  • Specialized
5.8

Knowledge of words and facts not about your own life

semantic relation
  • Specialized
7.2

A connection between what words, phrases, or sentences mean

semantic role
  • Specialized
7.7

The job a noun phrase has with the main verb, like the doer or the one affected

Surface Forms

semantic positive

Morphology

semantic = semantics (transparent) = semant + ic

Formed by the common adjective-forming suffix '-ic' from the semant-/semantics base, so the meaning 'relating to meaning' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Semantic comes from the Greek root sema meaning 'sign' or 'signal', like the English word 'sign'. So semantic is about the 'meaning' that words and symbols show.