semantics
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- noun
- /sɪˈmæntɪks/
- Specialized
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semántica
- Students studying semantics learn how different phrases can convey unique meanings.
- syntax and semantics
- semantics of language
- linguistic semantics
That's sort of what general semantics was trying to to deal with.
- That's sort of what general semantics was trying to to deal with.
- I mean, I think you can talk about semantics of language and if that, you know, if if, if white people are offended by that, then I respect that.
Examples
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Therefore, Long entitled his article, "Understanding and Teaching the Semantics of Terrorism: An Alternative Perspective."
Academic text (1991) -
A special convention has been introduced here in order to make the semantics of these mappings clearer.
Academic text (1990) -
And I know it seems like semantics, but it's really important to me.
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It's a matter of semantics.
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We want to extract the semantics behind this.
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Translations always lose some of the semantics, the flavor of the original.
Fiction book (1998) -
Note that XML is quickly becoming the main tool for describing the semantics of data.
Academic text (1999) -
The difference in intonation, how it changes the semantics of what you're saying.
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There's a symposium on semantics.
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Therefore, researchers have been working on bringing semantics through the Semantic Web and related technologies to automatically classify digital collections.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
The study of word meanings and how people understand them
Compounds
- Specialized
How people create and understand the meaning of words and sentences using thought and senses
- Specialized
Study of how logic and math explain the meaning of words and sentences
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word semantics comes from the Greek root sema, which means 'sign'. So semantics is the study of the 'signs' or meanings that words carry, and that is why it is about meaning in language.