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Meaning of "amphibolous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AMPHIBOLOUS

amphibolous  [æmˈfɪbələs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMPHIBOLOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Amphibolous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AMPHIBOLOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Syntactic ambiguity

Syntactic ambiguity, also called amphiboly or amphibology, is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Syntactic ambiguity arises not from the range of meanings of single words, but from the relationship between the words and clauses of a sentence, and the sentence structure implied thereby. When a reader can reasonably interpret the same sentence as having more than one possible structure, the text meets the definition of syntactic ambiguity. In legal disputes, courts may be asked to interpret the meaning of syntactic ambiguities in statutes or contracts. In some instances, arguments asserting highly unlikely interpretations have been deemed frivolous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMPHIBOLOUS


ametabolous
ˌæmɪˈtæbələs
amphibolic
æmˈfɪbələs
collembolous
kəˈlɛmbələs
discobolos
dɪsˈkɒbələs
discobolus
dɪsˈkɒbələs
Elagabalus
ˌɛləˈɡæbələs
embolus
ˈɛmbələs
fearless
ˈfɪələs
fiberless
ˈfaɪbələs
harborless
ˈhɑːbələs
harbourless
ˈhɑːbələs
Heliogabalus
ˌhiːlɪəʊˈɡæbələs
hemimetabolous
ˌhemiːmɪˈtæbələs
holometabolous
ˌhɒləʊmɪˈtæbələs
libellous
ˈlaɪbələs
libelous
ˈlaɪbələs
neighborless
ˈneɪbələs
Nicholas
ˈnɪkələs
obolus
ˈɒbələs
scybalous
ˈsɪbələs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMPHIBOLOUS

amphibian
amphibiotic
amphibious
amphibiously
amphibiousness
amphiblastic
amphiblastula
amphiblastulae
amphibole
amphibolic
amphibolies
amphibolite
amphibological
amphibologically
amphibologies
amphibology
amphiboly
amphibrach
amphibrachic
amphichroic

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMPHIBOLOUS

caulicolous
fimicolous
frivolous
lapidicolous
lignicolous
limicolous
luteolous
nonfrivolous
paludicolous
piscicolous
radicicolous
ridiculous
saxicolous
sciolous
silicicolous
sphagnicolous
spongicolous
stercoricolous
subdolous
terricolous
unfrivolous

Synonyms and antonyms of amphibolous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «amphibolous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMPHIBOLOUS

Find out the translation of amphibolous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of amphibolous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «amphibolous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模棱两可
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

amphibolous
570 millions of speakers

English

amphibolous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

amphibolous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متعاكس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

amphibolous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

amphibolous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

amphibolous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

amphibolous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Amfibolous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

amphibolous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

amphibolous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

amphibolous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Amphibolous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

amphibolous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

amphibolous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Amphibolous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

amphibolous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

amphibolous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

amphibolous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

amphibolous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

amfibolice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

amphibolous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

amphibolous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

amphibolous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

amphibolous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of amphibolous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMPHIBOLOUS»

The term «amphibolous» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.700 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMPHIBOLOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about amphibolous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMPHIBOLOUS»

Discover the use of amphibolous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to amphibolous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Creative Matrix of the Origins: Dynamisms, Forces and ...
THE "IDEALITY" AND THE AMPHIBOLOUS STRUCTURE "JOY AND SORROW Remember that fear is a "dialectical amphibolous." entity, because it is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy." Here lies the "attraction and  ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2002
2
Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation: Exploring ...
other words, we Asian American live in an amphibolous state both spiritually and materially. The crucial point to understand is that those whose faith is amphibolous are accepting the necessity to live with the pressure to mimic the dominant ...
Heup Young Kim, 2011
3
Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies ...
By calling aph' henos kai pros hen terms “amphibolous,” Wolfson simply read the meaning of the Arabic taškīk back into the Greek amphibolia; the title of his article is therefore anachronistic and misleading.50 But how did the Arabic term ...
David Reisman, Felicitas Opwis, 2011
4
Language in Dispute: An English Translation of Peter of ...
60 Again: If asked whether amphibolous word-groups participate equally in word- group identity, say one way, yes, another way, no. As is clear from the above, word-group identity is ambiguous: - one material, the other specific. Speaking of ...
Pope John XXI, Francis P. Dinneen, 1990
5
The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: ...
When we are speaking about sameness with regard to matter, an amphibolous expression is always the same, as, for example, 'Aristotle's book.' An amphibolous expression varies, however, because an expression is amphibolous in that ...
Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, 1988
6
The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra ...
We noted above that amphibolous anacoluthon elicits an experience similar to that of loss of identity—a element of the sentences appears first as one thing, then as another§'60 When we read an instance of amphibolous anacoluthon, we look ...
R. Bruce Elder, 1998
7
Aristotle on False Reasoning: Language and the World in the ...
He says that if a law is amphibolous, then one must turn it about and see which way of taking it (pot°ran t‹n TMgwg–n) fits either justice or expediency and make use of that interpretation. Clearly the amphiboly is an entire sentence (or ...
Scott G. Schreiber, 2012
8
Semantics : A Reader: A Reader
With the right choice of state of affairs, amphibolous declarative sentences often give rise to differing judgments of truth value. Nonetheless, an expression's being susceptible of alternate judgments of truth value is not a necessary condition for ...
Steven Davis Professor of Philosophy and and Director of the Centre on Values andf Ethics Carleton University, Brendan S. Gillon Associate Professor of Linguistics McGill University, 2004
9
Life Creative Mimesis of Emotion: From Sorrow to Elation: ...
ARISTOTELIAN PITY AND FEAR BECOME REMORSE Interesting for us is that the dialectically amphibolous construction of "fear and pity" is to achieve a reflexive character with regard to the "suffering of the hero" (K12 490). This no longer ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2000
10
Logic, Probability, and Presumptions in Legal Reasoning
Statements that contain this kind of ambiguity are called “amphibolous” by symbolic logicianfi The ambiguity arises out of a loose combination of words such that it is not clear which word or phrase refers to which other word or phrase.
Scott Brewer, 2013

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMPHIBOLOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term amphibolous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Making 'Make-In-India' Move In Defence Production - Analysis
The lack of clarity about the policy underpinnings of this amphibolous trope lies at the root of this dichotomy. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ... «Eurasia Review, Apr 15»
2
The personality of Miriam
Not just another take on a verse or a passage; not just another read on an ambiguous or amphibolous Hebrew word or phrase; not just another ... «Intermountain Jewish News, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Amphibolous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/amphibolous>. May 2024 ».
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