Definitions
Etymologies
- meta- + analysis, coined by Otto Jesperson. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A metanalysis is a method of combining the data from multiple clinical trials so that the results can be statistically analyzed like a single, very large study, thereby yielding clinically valid conclusions.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately
“She drew her results from a "metanalysis" of existing research into the effects of marijuana on driving ability, combined with traffic accident statistics in the United States and Australia, finding that "(w) hile smoking marijuana does impair driving ability, it does not share alcohol's effect on judgment.”
“At the same time that this trial was reported, a metanalysis was published in the British Medical Journal comparing stenting to an endarterectomy.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately
“This metanalysis included results from 4,796 patients, far more than were included in the report at the American Stroke Association conference.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Is The Media Covering Medicine Accurately
“Pursuant to 6-3, you seem to have alluded to possible bias with selection of the substudies for the metanalysis CENSORED discussion.”
“Another one for the metanalysis list: OE nædre MnE adder”
“So eyas, like orange and umpire, is the result of metanalysis false division of the article + noun unit: "a nias" "an eyas".”
“The Steve Nissen metanalysis that caused most of the public focus on Avandia in 2007 and the FDA advisory committee was poorly conducted and unable to make the conclusion that Avandia was unsafe.”
“For his written work, he's best remember for his multiverse/multinarrative metanalysis of Campbellian archtypes known as the "Eternal Champion".”
“I'm looking for someone who can complete a metanalysis on the effectiveness of art therapy in the treatment of mental disorders.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘metanalysis’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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wordplay terms
affix-clipping, alternade, alternating termi..., backswitch, balanced letter sum, beheadment, binade, capitonyms, catoptron, changeover, changing offset s..., charade and 96 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Interesting Words 1
Some words that piqued my interest
catachresis, rhotacism, mytacism, metanalysis, logomachy, cacoepy, cacodoxy, sesquipedalian, acyrology, cacozelia, brachylogy, solecism and 11 more...
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rhetorical terms
aposiopesis, epistrophe, metanalysis, prolepsis, pleonasm, paronomasia, hysteron proteron, syncope, prosopopoeia, syllepsis, litotes, synecdoche and 8 more...
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lit
words relating to literature or lit criticism
pastiche, pejorative, hamartia, elide, rhapsody, avant-garde, incarnadine, writer and explor..., the vortex of the..., sibilant, annabel lee - poe, metanalysis
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linguistics = sexy
inchoative, semblitive, transitivity, deixis, indexical, adjunct, predicate, approximant, ejective, epenthesis, monophthong, pharyngealisation and 41 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for metanalysis.
jjmaldonis Good explanation of it here, and a couple other cool things. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/have-an-inkling.html Enjoy! Jan 16, 2009
oroboros See affix-clipping. May 23, 2008
reesetee Groaaann.... ;-) Jun 14, 2007
slumry Wonderful! this concept could go places. Jun 14, 2007
seanahan Does anyone else want to make the joke,
I never met a nalysis I didn't like? Jun 14, 2007
slumry Just met this word while holding my nose and looking up "nother" Jun 14, 2007