binome

Thanks to this Photoshop job of a “real-life” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleby binome on Worth1000, I find my usually-indomitable vocabulary reduced to the most painful and trite of exclamatory internet cliches.

Thanks, Photoshop!: Real-Life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle 2010

Traditional dictionaries always gave independent definitions for each member of the binome, even if there are no textual examples of either part being used independently.

languagehat.com: CLUNKY COMPOUNDS. 2005

I've been told that Knechtges in his Wenxuan translation does a masterful job of interpreting one type of these the impressionistic type, not the binome nouns.

languagehat.com: CLUNKY COMPOUNDS. 2005

It is a fallacy but a very common one in contemporary Chinese culture to locate the source of a word's connotation in the "root meanings" of the characters used for a particular binome.

languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.' 2005

And even where there is a relationship, the binome has its own, independent, fixed meaning -- just as the English "sidewalk" has one fixed meaning and does not mean "side-trip", "cat-walk", or "walk sideways".

languagehat.com: CRISIS. 2005

Pour ma part, et comme tu le pressens, je prévois toujours plus d'exercices pour que les “meilleurs” ne restent pas sans rien faire, ou je les mets en binome avec un qui a plus de difficultés et qu'il peut aider.

Cours de maths-base — Climb to the Stars 2004

The question arises whether the binome represents a natural development of the language in an unconscious attempt to escape the difficulties of homophony; or as might be the case in relation to the written language, which appeals the eye only and not the ear, simply an affection of style.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

While this device is already found in the Mencius, the two words forming the binome still may usually be translated singly, i. e, each with its original meaning.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

A noteworthy feature of Chinese prose style is the binome or synonym-compound.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

In many cases the literal translation of the binome is superfluous.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931