- exocentric compound
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English-Tamil dictionary. 2014.
exocentric compound
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Exocentric — has a number of meanings.In linguistics, it refers to phrases and compound words which are not the same part of speech as their constituents.For example, in the sentence I am in the doghouse , the phrase in the doghouse is an exocentric phrase,… … Wikipedia
Compound (linguistics) — In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word formation process being derivation). Compounding… … Wikipedia
exocentric — /ek soh sen trik/, adj. Gram. not having the same syntactic function in the sentence as any one of its immediate constituents. In the garden is an exocentric construction, since it does not function in the same way as the noun garden. The noun… … Universalium
compound — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, acid, acidity, acronym, acrostic, add, add to, adjust, admix, admixture, agent, aggrandize, aggravate, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, alloy, alloyage, amalgam, amalgamate, amalgamation, anion, antacid,… … Moby Thesaurus
exocentric — ex•o•cen•tric [[t]ˌɛk soʊˈsɛn trɪk[/t]] adj. gram. (of a grammatical construction or a compound) not having the same syntactic function in a sentence as any one of its constituents, as in the garden, which does not function the same way as the… … From formal English to slang
English compound — A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme.English compounds may be classified in several ways, such as the word classes or the semantic relationship of their components.Compound nounsMost English compound nouns are noun phrases … Wikipedia
Bahuvrihi — A bahuvrīhí (बहुव्रीहि), or bahuvrihi compound (also exocentric compound ), is a type of nominal compound that refers to something that is not specified by any of its parts by themselves (i.e., it is headless or exocentric, its core semantic… … Wikipedia
acrostic — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acronym, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, avyayibhava, back formation, calembour, clipped word, compound, conjugate, construction, corruption, dvandva, dvigu, endocentric compound, equivocality,… … Moby Thesaurus
construction — Synonyms and related words: acronym, acrostic, adjectival phrase, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, avyayibhava, back formation, build, building, buildup, casting, clause, clipped word, combination,… … Moby Thesaurus
formation — Synonyms and related words: Platonic form, Platonic idea, accumulation, acronym, acrostic, aesthetic form, allocation, allotment, anatomy, appearance, apportionment, archetype, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, array, arraying, art form … Moby Thesaurus
spoonerism — Synonyms and related words: Irish bull, abuse of terms, acronym, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anacoluthon, anagram, avyayibhava, back formation, bull, calembour, catachresis, clipped word, compound, conjugate, construction, corruption,… … Moby Thesaurus
