Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Agreement; concord.
- n. An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare's works.
- n. Genetics The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being concordant; agreement; harmony.
- n. The knowledge concerning the sympathies and concordances between the mind and body.
- n. In grammar, concord.
- n. A classified collection of the different passages of a work, as of the Bible or the plays of Shakspere, with references to the places of their occurrence. A verbal concordance consists of an alphabetical list of the principal words used in the work, under each of which references to the passages in which it is found are arranged in order, generally with citation of the essential part of each. A real concordance is an alphabetical index of subjects. (Compare
harmony in a similar sense.) - n. In music, concord or consonance in the technical sense of these words: opposed to dissonance or discord.
Wiktionary
- n. agreement; accordance; consonance
- n. concord; agreement.
- n. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
- n. a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Agreement; accordance.
- n. Concord; agreement.
- n. An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
- n. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.
WordNet 3.0
- n. agreement of opinions
- n. an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
- n. a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
Examples
“Notice how my work is being presented as being in concordance with ID when Meyer knows very well where I stand on this issue.”
“There is a 4th digit in the concordance, which is usually 0.”
“Junta CM, Mello SS, Garcia PS, Rassi DM, et al. (2007) Profiling meta-analysis reveals primarily gene coexpression concordance between systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.”
“A concordance is a book that lists every time a word appears in the Bible.”
“A concordance is a detailed index of all or most of the words in a literary work or in the collected works of an author.”
“Charles Arthur of The Guardian published a "concordance" of the search terms the thieves used to gather up and select CRU emails.”
Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives
“The term "concordance" applied to twins refers to a condition common to both twins.”
Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness
“They then compared the "concordance" of identical twins (in how many pairs both got or escaped cancer) with the concordance in fraternal twins.”
“He demands a Biblical concordance which is in folio.”
“According to Strong’s exhaustive concordance, the Hebrew word for devils is sa’iyr, and it translates “shaggy,” as in a “he-goat.””
Simon & Schuster: God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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