syntactic
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7.0
- adjective
- /sɪnˈtæktɪk/
- Specialized
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sintáctico
- The teacher explained the syntactic structure of simple sentences to the students.
- syntactic complexity
- syntactic structures
- syntactic processing
So to me it's whatever the opposite of syntactic sugar is syntactic poison.
- So to me it's whatever the opposite of syntactic sugar is syntactic poison.
- And the reason for that is that actually TFNP is not what is called a syntactic class.
- So the key argument is that programs, computational systems are formal and so they can capture syntactic structure.
- You can't capture relevance with those syntactic relations and therefore you can't do a logic of similarity.
- It's like the whole thing, grammatical, syntactic, semantic.
- But, but, but the, the, the final human advance was syntactic grammar.
- The ETA maintain all the subsystems that that employ what they call syntactic devices.
- And he says as a young poet, when he renders that prose, he uses only high syntactic theatricality.
Examples
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The point of the SAT's sentence-completion questions is to measure vocabulary and powers of syntactic analysis.
Academic text (1999) -
Goodman focused on how the reader used syntactic and semantic knowledge in the process of reading.
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So in some sense, it's just a syntactic change.
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You can give a complete syntactic description of the language inside the language itself.
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Now the syntactic rules are complicated.
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So it's some nice syntactic sugar, but it's pretty neat.
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To ensure the grounding process is well defined, syntactic conditions on variables are used.
Academic text (2011) -
He's reversed the syntactic order of subject and verb by doing so.
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Therefore, the contribution of syntactic riddles to reading comprehension may be more apparent here.
Academic text (2013) -
To be literate in Chinese, Cantonese-speaking children have to acquire additional sets of syntactic structures and vocabulary.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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7.6
Relating to the rules that tell how words make sentences in a language
How words or parts of a sentence join together
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of words that work the same in a sentence, like noun or verb
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word syntactic comes from the old Greek word syntax, made of syn- 'together' and taxis 'arrangement'. So syntactic is about how words are 'put together' to form correct sentences.