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[ adjective ] of or relating to the study of meaning and changes of meaning

Examples

"semantic analysis"

Used in print

(Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)

Finally , information is retrieved from the dictionary as_required by stages of the translation process - the grammatic description for sentence-structure determination , equivalent choice information for semantic analysis , and target-language equivalents for output construction .

(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

Thomas ' findings are , first , `` that the individual items vary greatly and unpredictably in their persistence '' ; but , second , `` that the semantic groups are surprisingly unvarying in their average persistence '' ( as between M-K and I-E .

His second conclusion , on semantic word_classes , agrees with mine .

Related terms

semantics

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