Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language.
- adj. Of, relating to, or according to the science of semantics.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.
- adj. Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
- adj. Petty or trivial; (context 1) quibbling, niggling.
GNU Webster's 1913
- pertaining to the meanings of words.
- of or pertaining to semantics.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning
Etymologies
- French sémantique, from Greek sēmantikos, significant, from sēmantos, marked, from sēmainein, sēman-, to signify, from sēma, sign.
Examples
“The only difference is, in the modern sentential calculus Ï and Ï are not construed as terms denoting truth-values, but rather as sentences having truth conditions (though, in the semantics of the sentential calculus, sentences are assigned truth-values as their ˜semantic value™, and they are considered true/false according to which truth-value serves as their semantic value).”
“Aristotle, in his time, distinguished between semantic and apophantic propositions, and noted, that if all propositions be _semantic_, not all are _apophantic_.”
“ The term semantic similarity is misleading as it refers to a type of attributional similarity, yet relational similarity is not any less semantic than attributional similarity.”
“The credit money is created by simply moving numbers on a balance sheet, and what I call a semantic fraud against all of us.”
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“So what we call semantic memory, remembering things by conceptual keys, like who was the first president of the United States.”
“Other companies have offered what they call semantic search based on the semantic web approach.”
“The qualifier "semantic" is important: semantic programs are composed of encoded information in which symbols stand for and are translated into physical, chemical, and biological objects and processes.”
“The first half of the book is devoted entirely to a complete intensive in semantic, standards-based HTML.”
“This is truly more than a search engine, it is a web portal that will help its viewers and is the movement forward in semantic searching on the web.”
“Across cultures, geographically and historically, profanities vary but they pretty much fall into certain semantic fields — religion, race, sex, organs, effluvia, disease.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘semantic’.
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Topical
The buzzwords of our time
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Interpreters' Speak
team sheet, pivot language, team leader, mini-plenary, plenary week, mission order, AIC colleague, SCIC, mission, mike, adding a new lang..., language booth and 499 more...
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
the bale, the hum.lab situation, media, startup, scientific, gameplay, social, intuitive, creative, collaborative, funding, non-governmental ..., consultant and 123 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo / common words used in computer programming.
( randomness, words )ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 392 more...
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Philosophical Shit
Thought-provokers; words that ask more questions than they answer.
meta, semantic, signify, sign, autological, heterological, ontology, hylozoism, abiogenesis, anima, homoiconicity, anthropomorphism and 3 more...
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Linguistic Terms
Words that (mostly) only linguists know.
arpabet, protologism, diacritic, macron, macaronic, capitonym, grapheme, boustrophedon, allograph, analphabetic, idiomatic, portmanteau and 39 more...
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Literary critical terms
cathexis, catachresis, polyvocal, alterity, liminality, liminal, limn, erasure, metonymic, intertextual, intrapoetic, contradistinction and 66 more...
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