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Meaning of "function word" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FUNCTION WORD

function word play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUNCTION WORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Function word is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FUNCTION WORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Function word

Function words are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. They signal the structural relationships that words have to one another and are the glue that holds sentences together. Thus, they serve as important elements to the structures of sentences. Consider the following two sentences: ▪ The winfy prunkilmonger from the glidgement mominkled and brangified all his levensers vederously. ▪ Glop angry investigator larm blonk government harassed gerfritz infuriated sutbor pumrog listeners thoroughly. In sentence above, the content words have been changed into nonsense syllables but it is not difficult for one to posit that winfy is an adjective, prunkilmonger, glidgement, levensers as nouns, mominkled, brangified as verbs and vederously as an adverb based on clues like the derivational and inflectional morphemes.. Hence, even without lexical meaning, the sentence can be said to be rather "meaningful".

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUNCTION WORD

function
function change
function creep
function key
function room
function shift
function suite
functional
functional calculus
functional disease
functional food
functional group
functional illiteracy
functional illiterate
functional water
functionalism
functionalist
functionalistic
functionalitities
functionality

WORDS THAT END LIKE FUNCTION WORD

at a word
buzz word
code word
content word
dirty word
entry word
four-letter word
full word
household word
in a word
keyword
mum´s the word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
reserved word
root word
the last word
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of function word in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «function word» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUNCTION WORD

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

Translator English - Chinese

虚词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

palabra función
570 millions of speakers

English

function word
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समारोह शब्द
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وظيفة الكلمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

функция слово
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

palavra função
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ফাংশন শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mot de fonction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fungsi perkataan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Funktionswort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

機能語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기능 단어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fungsi tembung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chức năng từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செயல்பாடு சொல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्य शब्द
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İşlev kelimesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

funzione di parola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

funkcja słowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

функція слово
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Funcția cuvânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λέξη λειτουργία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

funksie woord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

funktion ord
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

funksjon ordet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of function word

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNCTION WORD»

The term «function word» is normally little used and occupies the 135.237 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNCTION WORD» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUNCTION WORD»

Discover the use of function word in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to function word and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Readings in Speech Recognition
As with other context-dependent units, we use deleted interpolation to combine the function- word-dependent parameters with context-independent ones. Table 6 shows the phones in are and be, the counts for the distributions of each phone,  ...
Alex Waibel, Kai-Fu Lee, 1990
2
Computational Models of American Speech
TABLE 3.2 Rules Specifying Function Word Contexts ("h" NIL (:function-word)) ;" his" ("d" NIL (:function- word (:following vowel "n"))) ;" should, did, and, around" (" u" "l" (:function- word (:following "t"))) ; "to, you" ("u" "i" (:function-word (:following ...
Mary Margaret Withgott, Francine R. Chen, 1993
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Clinical Linguistics: Theory and Applications in Speech ...
7.2 Phonological word contexts, and stalling and advancing fluency failures Function word position relative to a content word needs to be established objectively to assess the stalling role of function word repetitions. The reason this is ...
Elisabetta Fava, 2002
4
Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External, and ...
So for example, in the English-Spanish data, utterances containing the function word mas 'more' were considered separately from utterances containing the function word dos 'two' because the child did have the English word more in her ...
Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch, 2002
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Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots: Processing ...
For a representation of content it does not matter whether a certain semantic value such as definiteness is coded by means of a function word, as in English, or by means of a suffix, as in Romanian.6 Function words of English are determiners ...
Roland Hausser, 2011
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition
12c) 1 a (1) — used as a function word to introduce a noun clause that is usu. the subject or object of a verb or a predicate nominative <said -~— he was afraid) (2) — used as a function word to introduce a subordinate clause that is anticipated ...
‎2004
7
Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction
Though sometimes the difference between content and function word classes can be rather fuzzy, there is a great deal of evidence that this basic distinction exists and that this distinction among classes of words is part of our fundamental  ...
Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, 2009
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Recovery from Stuttering
Absolute Activation Threshold Time FIGURE 12.2 Activation and decay parameters for the situation leading to stalling for a PW consisting of a function word preceding a content word. The solid lines represent the activation states for the ...
Peter Howell, 2011
9
Language: Its Structure and Use
In Tongan, the function word ʔoku denotes present tense, while naʔe denotes past tense. ʔoku ʔalu e fineʔeiki ki kolo Present go the woman to town 'The woman is going to town.' naʔe ʔalu e fineʔeiki ki kolo Past go the woman to town ...
Edward Finegan, 2007
10
Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise ...
The lines are fairly typical of the entire text, in which nearly 81% of all discourse units begin with a function word, rather than a content word. The overall preference is heavily skewed in favor of multiple function words in the utterance initial ...
Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, MaryAnn Willie, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUNCTION WORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term function word is used in the context of the following news items.
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I'm black, I'm Christian, and I don't forgive you
The Meriam-Webster dictionary defines "unto" as "a function word to indicate reference or concern." If "unto" implies reciprocity, then we have ... «The News-Press, Jul 15»
2
How much you say “the” can predict how well you'll do in college
Other function word types such as pronouns, conjunctions and adverbs, more dynamic word choices found in personal narratives, are ... «Vox, Jan 15»
3
People who use the same kinds of function words are more likely to …
When analyzed, researchers discovered a positive correlation of function-word similarity with speed-daters' odds of going on a second date ... «Medical Xpress, Feb 14»
4
Sagmeister & Walsh shift Function up a gear
“We started with the Function word mark..[and] using the exact elements that went into constructing the Function typography, created a series of ... «Creative Review, Dec 13»
5
Box Notes puts shared folder users on same page
Notes isn't anything like a full-function word processor — it's a really simple online editor. What it lacks in formatting capabilities it makes up for ... «Diginomica, Sep 13»
6
8 symbols that we turned into words
... a rare bird sighting in the world of linguistics: An innovation in the slang of young people embedding itself as a function word in the language. «The Week Magazine, May 13»
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'A Rare Bird Sighting': 'Slash' As A New Conjunction
... a rare-bird sighting in the world of linguistics: an innovation in the slang of young people embedding itself as a function word in the language. «NPR, Apr 13»
8
Review: Page Four provides the tools writers need, without distractions
PageFour tries to find the sweet spot between that style and a full-function word processor. One of the more unique features of PageFour is a ... «PCWorld, Mar 13»
9
Health bites
In English, a function word comes before a content word (the dog, his hat, with friends, for example) and the duration of the content word is ... «South China Morning Post, Feb 13»
10
How Bilingual Babies Keep Languages Separate
In Japanese or Hindi, by contrast, the content word ("dog") comes first, and has a higher pitch than the function word ("the"). In most languages ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 13»

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