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Meaning of "infixation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFIXATION

infixation  [ɪnˈfɪkʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFIXATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infixation 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 INFIXATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Infix

An infix is an affix inserted inside a word stem. It contrasts with adfix, a rare term for an affix attached to the end of a stem, such as a prefix or suffix. When marking text for interlinear glossing, most affixes are separated with a hyphen, but infixes are separated with 〈angle brackets〉.

Definition of infixation in the English dictionary

The definition of infixation in the dictionary is the act of infixing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFIXATION


addiction
əˈdɪkʃən
affliction
əˈflɪkʃən
contradiction
ˌkɒntrəˈdɪkʃən
conviction
kənˈvɪkʃən
crucifixion
ˌkruːsɪˈfɪkʃən
depiction
dɪˈpɪkʃən
diction
ˈdɪkʃən
eviction
ɪˈvɪkʃən
fiction
ˈfɪkʃən
friction
ˈfrɪkʃən
infixion
ɪnˈfɪkʃən
interdiction
ˌɪntəˈdɪkʃən
jurisdiction
ˌdʒʊərɪsˈdɪkʃən
metafiction
ˈmetəˌfɪkʃən
nonfiction
ˌnɒnˈfɪkʃən
prediction
prɪˈdɪkʃən
prefixion
priːˈfɪkʃən
restriction
rɪˈstrɪkʃən
suffixion
sʌˈfɪkʃən
transfixion
trænsˈfɪkʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFIXATION

infinities
infinitival
infinitivally
infinitive
infinitive marker
infinitively
infinitude
infinitum
infinity
infirm
infirmarer
infirmarian
infirmaries
infirmary
infirmities
infirmity
infirmly
infirmness
infix
infixion

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFIXATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of infixation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infixation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFIXATION

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Translator English - Chinese

中缀
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

infijación
570 millions of speakers

English

infixation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

infixation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infixation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

инфиксация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

infixation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

infixation
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

infixation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Infixation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

infixation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

infixation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infixation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infixation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infixation
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

infixation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Infixation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

infixation
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infixation
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

infixation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інфіксація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

infixation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

infixation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infixation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infixation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infixation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infixation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFIXATION»

The term «infixation» is used very little and occupies the 181.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFIXATION» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFIXATION»

Discover the use of infixation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infixation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Natural History of Infixation
The book will interest phonologists, morphologists, typologists, and historical linguists of alltheoretical persuasions.
Alan C. L. Yu, 2007
2
Word-Formation in English
In sum, we have seen that infixation in English is determined by the metrical structure of the base, or, more specifically, by its foot structure. Expletive infixation can be regarded as a case of prosodic morphology, i.e. a kind of morphology where ...
Ingo Plag, 2003
3
Extra-grammatical Morphology in English: Abbreviations, ...
Infixation as an extra-grammatical phenomenon McMillan (1980: 163) calls infixes “emotive intensifier[s]”, claiming that they are normally obscene, profane or euphemisticl“9 The infixation of expletives in English has been included in Zwicky ...
Elisa Mattiello, 2013
4
Minor Mlabri: A Hunter-gatherer Language of Northern Indochina
4.1.1 Infixation Infixation, in the form of insertion of one or more consonants after the stem-initial consonant, occurs on many verb stems. The material inserted varies but is sonorant and comprises at least one tongue-tip consonant (in the ...
Jørgen Rischel, 1995
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The Phonology of English : A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic ...
First, expletive infixation can only apply if the primary stress occurs to the right ( e.g. *cu-f*-cumber). Second, expletive infixation can only happen if there is a foot on either side (e.g. *ba-f*-ndna). Third, expletive infixation cannot interrupt a foot  ...
Michael Hammond, 1999
6
Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
7.3.1.3 Infixation in polysyllabic verbs In many polysyllabic verbs, the final syllable $CV is treated as if it were a support verb, and the negative is infixed to precede it. These verbs then seem to have the structure root + verb, but in fact there is ...
John Haiman, 1980
7
The Boundaries of Pure Morphology: Diachronic and Synchronic ...
5.4.3 Extramorphological parameters of morphological variation 5.4.3.1 Diatopic variability The statistical analysis showed that the productivity of first-conjugation infixation differs significantly among the investigated dialects. In order to ...
Silvio Cruschina, Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith, 2013
8
Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind
Another linguist, Alan Yu, more recently has investigated a pop-culture example of infixation dubbed Homer infixation after the television character Homer Simpson, who popularized it. Take a look at the following word forms with Homer  ...
Dani Byrd, Toben H. Mintz, 2011
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An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes
1.6.4 Infixation Revisited The notion of prespecification has still further ramifications in that it suggests a way of simplifying McCarthy's treatment of infixation in the Arabic verbal paradigm, and of accounting for one of the major characteristics of ...
Rochelle Lieber, 1987
10
Ken Hale: A Life in Language
Infixation (Stem Onset Prepasing) u m X X + X 12 34 b. Onset Metathesis m u X X + X 12 34 C u m + XXX 1 2 3 u m XXX 1 2 3 I will show that Onset Metathesis rather than Infixation applies in Tagalog (section 4.2) and Chamorro (section 4.3),  ...
Kenneth Locke Hale, Michael J. Kenstowicz, 2001

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFIXATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infixation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why linguists freak out about 'absofreakinglutely'
Some call it infixing or expletive infixation, but it's not a real infix. There's another term, tmesis, which could maybe work, but linguists disagree ... «The Week Magazine, Dec 14»
2
The Surprising Complexity of "Legen—Wait for It—Dary"
Mark Lindsay, a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at Stony Brook University, suggests that iz-infixation "may be used for obscuring profanity (e.g., ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 14»
3
Expletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tists
An analysis of English Expletive Infixation (as in fan-fuckin-tastic) in terms of a metrical theory of prosody is presented. It is shown that the major ... «Deep-Sea News, Aug 11»

REFERENCE
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