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Meaning of "monosemic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MONOSEMIC

ˌmɒnəʊˈsiːmɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOSEMIC

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

WHAT DOES MONOSEMIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of monosemic in the English dictionary

The definition of monosemic in the dictionary is having only a single meaning.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOSEMIC

glycaemic · glycemic · hypercalcemic · hyperglycaemic · hyperglycemic · hypocalcemic · hypoglycaemic · hypoglycemic · hypoxemic · normoglycaemic · normoglycemic · polysemic · proxemic · racemic · septicaemic · septicemic · taxemic · tetrasemic · thalassemic · trisemic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOSEMIC

monosaccharide · monosaturated · monosemy · monosepalous · monosis · monoski · monoskier · monoskiing · monosodium · monosodium dihydrogen orthophosphate · monosodium glutamate · monosome · monosomic · monosomy · monospaced · monospaced type · monospecific · monospecificity · monospermal · monospermous

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOSEMIC

academic · alchemic · anemic · demic · emphysemic · endemic · epidemic · epistemic · galactosemic · hemic · ischaemic · ischemic · leukemic · mnemic · nonacademic · pandemic · phonemic · polemic · systemic · totemic

Synonyms and antonyms of monosemic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monosemic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF MONOSEMIC

Find out the translation of monosemic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of monosemic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monosemic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

monosemic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

monosémico
570 millions of speakers
en

English

monosemic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

monosemic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

monosemic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

monosemic
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

monossêmica
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

monosemic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

univoque
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Monosemik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

monosemi
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

monosemic
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

monosemic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Monosemik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

monosemic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

monosemic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मोनोसेमिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

monosemic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

monosemico
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

monosemic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

monosemic
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

monosemic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

monosemic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monosemic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monosemic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monosemic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monosemic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOSEMIC»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOSEMIC»

Discover the use of monosemic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monosemic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Words and Other Wonders: Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics
Lexical semantics cannot at the same time retain a monosemic bias and the ideal of classical definability: there exist cases where sticking to the intuitively plausible idea that a particular lexical item is univocal leads to the conclusion that it ...
Dirk Geeraerts, 2006
2
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Volume II: ...
3.1.1 Monosemic criteria These criteria apply only to monosemous EW with respect to WN1.5. As a result, this unique synset is linked to the corresponding Spanish words. EW SW — EW SW EW Monosemic~1 Criteria Monosemic-2 Criteria ...
Nicolas Nicolov, Ruslan Mitkov, 2000
3
EuroWordNet: A multilingual database with lexical semantic ...
... 1978), we obtain the following statistics: l. monosemic nouns in WordNet which are also monosemic in CRL-LDB: 10046 2. monosemic WordNet synsets which have polysemic CRL-LDB counterparts: 34 3. monosemic CRL-LDB nouns with ...
Piek Vossen, 1998
4
Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism
Monosemic systems offer only one correct interpretation; other interpretations are not viable alternatives: they are considered mistaken and wrong. Hence, cartographical signs and engineering drawings are predominantly monosemic.
Victor Margolin, 1989
5
Creation Language in Romans 8: A Study in Monosemy
I will begin by giving a brief overview of the primary proponent of a monosemic bias, followed by a cross-section of a systemic functional understanding of language and lexis, and nish with an assessment of how these two perspectives can be ...
Gregory P. Fewster, 2013
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On Monosemy: A Study in Linguistic Semantics
it equally difficult for a linguist to make either a monosemic or polysemic/ homonymic/idiomatic claim. Most of the inertial forces now favor multiple meaning. Posner and Bierwisch assume a difference between inherent lexical meaning, which is ...
Charles Ruhl, 1989
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The Mathematics of Language: 10th and 11th Biennial ...
The monosemic approach (also called Saussurean and Columbia School approach by Kirsner, who calls the polysemic approach cognitive) searches for a single, general, abstract meaning, and would subsume at least the first three senses ...
Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, Jens Michaelis, 2010
8
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
For this demonstration the semantic values in the two analyses will be characterized in the following fashion: Monosemic analysis Of at: '+pOint-like location' Polysemic analysis Of at: '+pOint-like location; +space' '+pOint-like location; +time' ...
Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner, Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller, 2004
9
Understanding the Times: New Testament Studies in the 21st ...
As a result, it is worth considering whether the notion of monosemy ought to be revisited in New Testament lexical study. Cruse contends that the “majority view” in contemporary lexical semantics is “probably monosemic.”39 Whether this is ...
Crossway, 2011
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The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and ...
A. Monosemic. System. A system is monosemic when the meaning of each sign is known prior to observation of the collection of signs. An equation can be comprehended only when the unique meaning of each term has been specified.
Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins, 2011

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOSEMIC»

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1
French Conceptual Artist Bernar Venet Launches The Venet …
... the objective nature of blueprints and their semantic character, he chose diagrams as his subjects, which became his first monosemic works. «Forbes, Sep 14»
2
What Does Heidegger's Anti-Semitism Mean for Jewish Philosophy?
... he intends the polysemic indeterminacy that subverts the monosemic essentializing of God as the metaphysical absolute that is fully present. «Religion Dispatches, Apr 14»
3
How to: archive and back up photos
... gapeworm presuccess binodose streptococcus reputedly scarph amorpha chapeau mormon gawgaw monosemic forwarder cystadenoma ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
REFERENCE
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