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PRONUNCIATION OF NONCE WORD

nonce word play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONCE WORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonce 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 NONCE WORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nonce word

A nonce word is a lexeme created for a single occasion to solve an immediate problem of communication, or "an invented or accidental linguistic form, used only once". All nonce words are also neologisms. Some nonce words have a meaning and may become an established part of the language, while others are essentially meaningless and disposable and are useful for exactly that reason, for instance in child language testing. The term nonce word was apparently the creation of James Murray, the influential editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Definition of nonce word in the English dictionary

The definition of nonce word in the dictionary is a word coined for a single occasion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONCE WORD

noncapitalist
noncarcinogen
noncarcinogenic
noncardiac
noncareer
noncarrier
noncash
noncasual
noncausal
nonce
nonce-bashing
noncelebration
noncelebrity
noncellular
noncellulosic
noncentral
noncereal
noncertificated
noncertified
nonchalance

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONCE 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 nonce word in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonce word» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NONCE WORD

Find out the translation of nonce word to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nonce 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 «nonce word» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

仿词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

palabra nonce
570 millions of speakers

English

nonce word
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अस्थायी रूप से शब्द
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كلمة حالية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

одноразовый слово
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

palavra nonce
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অচেনা শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mot nonce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata bukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nonce Wort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

臨時語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비표 단어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung nonce
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

từ nonce
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வார்த்தையல்ல
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नॉन शब्द
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Nonce kelime
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parola nonce
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

słowo nonce
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

одноразовий слово
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cuvânt nonce
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nonce λέξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonce woord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonce ord
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonce ord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonce word

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONCE WORD»

The term «nonce word» is used very little and occupies the 186.175 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NONCE WORD» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONCE WORD»

Discover the use of nonce word in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nonce word and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lexicalization and Language Change
When first used for a particular occasion, an innovation is known as a NONCE WORD or NONCE FORMATION.15 A nonce formation is a new complex word coined on the spur of the moment or made up casually on the fly out of phrases, e.g..
Laurel J. Brinton, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, 2005
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Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs
For example, in “She wants you to deeg it,” the nonce word occurred in the to ______ it verb frame; in “I see the bist in the room,” the nonce word oc- curred in the the ______ in noun frame. After familiarizing an infant with sentences like these, ...
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, 2006
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Handbook of Word-Formation
(Heroid(, in contrast, can be taken to represent regular nonce word-formation.) Similarly, Bauer (2001: 206) mentions the formation of greenth by Walpole some 150 years after -th-suffixation ceased to be a productive (available) pattern, and he ...
Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, 2006
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Heterogeneity in Word-formation Patterns: A Corpus-based ...
Bauer 1983:45).32 The description of a word as a nonce word in dictionary sources is therefore not a reliable statement since, no- toriously, dictionaries are outdated as soon as they are printed (the same goes for corpus material once the data ...
Susanne Muehleisen, 2010
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Spanish Phonology and Morphology: Experimental and ...
'Little Bear's mother nonce word him a lot. Every time he gets sick she nonce word him. Yesterday Little Bear got sick and his mother him.' If the subjects had some sort of internalized rule of diphthongization and applied it, they should answer ...
David Eddington, 2004
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Fast Software Encryption: 11th International Workshop, FSE ...
3.2 Influence of Each Nonce Word Similar differential properties hold regarding each nonce word. Indeed, the nonce N serves two purposes in Helix : - Fill the initial 160 bits of internal state. - Derive two words A^o and Xit\ introduced at round i.
Bimal Roy, Willi Meier, 2004
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The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words
Nonce words Words per nonce word Headwords per nonce word Nonce words Words per nonce word Headwords P^ nonce word ROMA 189 56 9 SUMPRO i 173 87 ABC 6 238 81 SUMT J« 79 18 BD 79 11o 17 CLPRO 3 141 7o P1TY 6 153 ...
Christopher Cannon, 1998
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Experimental Investigations of Sociolinguistic Knowledge
In addition to the 64 real word fillers, this experiment included 24 ambiguous nonce word fillers (see Appendix for a list of all stimuli used in the experiments). Like the ambiguous real words, these nonce words were ambiguous between a ...
Laura Staum, 2008
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The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics
For example, if the last nonce word seen by the subjects was enapil, subjects tended toward the adjective enapiloso, but when enapillar was the last nonce word seen, the trend was toward enapilloso. In other words, the choice was affected by ...
José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke, 2013
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Morphological Productivity
By contrast with a nonce word, a  is a word which becomes part of the norm of the language, and thus is part of the brief of a lexicographer (as witness the title of Green [1991] and the description in the first sentence of its ...
Laurie Bauer, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONCE WORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nonce word is used in the context of the following news items.
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Federal Circuit revises law on construing means-plus-function claim …
... based on use of the nonce word 'module', finding that neither the term 'module' nor the prefix 'distributed learning control' imparts structure to ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
2
Practical Claim And Specification Drafting, Following Williamson v …
... specification drafting, now that some words are more likely to be interpreted as nonce word substitutions for means plus function language? «Mondaq News Alerts, Jul 15»
3
What was old is new again for means + function claim elements
In dissent, Judge Reyna argued that the claim term “module” was a nonce word that referred to functions that lacked corresponding structure in ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
4
Williamson Decision Will Encourage Patent Defendants to …
... “a distributed learning control module” was tantamount to “means for” performing a function, and calling it a “nonce word that reflect[s] nothing ... «JD Supra, Jun 15»
5
Functional Claiming of Computer-Implemented Inventions in View of …
In the context of § 112, “module” is a well-known nonce word that can operate as a substitute for “means.”[7] The word “module” in claim 8 does ... «IPWatchdog.com, Jun 15»
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En Banc Federal Circuit Broadens What Constitutes A Means-Plus …
The panel found that the term “module” is “a well-known nonce word that can operate as a substitute for 'means' in the context of § 112, para. «JD Supra, Jun 15»
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Williamson v. Citrix: En Banc Opinion on § 112, para. 6
Slip Op. at 17. That term – module – is “a well-known nonce word that can operate as a substitute for 'means' in the context of § 112, para 6. «Patently-O, Jun 15»
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Our Bleak Exile of Nature
The nonce word should alert us to the sleight of hand. A sort of nature-facility is being made and dressed up as a return to a wilder past. «New York Times, May 15»
9
Strong stuff: The art of brick
... of the Fairport Convention album, turns out not to be a bit of builders' jargon, but is a nonce word idly coined by Sandy Denny on the tour bus. «Christie's, Mar 15»
10
As Bitcoin slides, the Blockchain grows
... digest known as the 'nonce', named after the concept of the nonce word ''a word used so rarely that it never enters the language proper". «E&T magazine, Feb 15»

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