gender,grammatical gender- a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness ...
1.the representation of something in symbolic form or the attribution of symbolic meaning or character to something 2.a system of symbols or symbolic representation 3.a symbolic significance or quality 4.(Art Movements) (often capital) a late 19th-century movement in art that sought to express ...
known gender equal protection case of Reed v. Reed.10 In Reed, the state arbitrarily and uniformly The unavoidable murkiness of "arbitrariness" would thus simply expand simple principles thatmight seem to support an invariantist approach to the meaning of arbitrary in typicalR George Wright...
Language consists of two sets of structures,or two levels. At the lower or the basic level there is a structure ofsounds, which are meaningless by themselves. But the sounds oflanguage can be grouped and regrouped into a large number of unitsof meaning, which are found at the higher level...
Verbs in a given form share a common voice or aspect meaning (reflexive, reciprocal, intensive, etc.) and the same type of affixation or internal inflection. A verbal root can be marked by the indicators of different forms. In Arabic there are more than 15 verb forms; their genetic relatio...
The microbial rare biosphere, composed of low-abundance microorganisms in a community, lacks a standardized delineation method for its definition. Currently, most studies rely on arbitrary thresholds to define the microbial rare biosphere (e.g., 0.1% rel
·arbitrary: the form of the linguistic signs bears no natural relations to their meaning ·iconicity: relationship between the word’s sound and the meaning ②.Duality 二重性: duality: the property of having two levels of structures, such as the units of the primary level are composed of the...
14) Language is only a means of communication. 错因——only 15) Language has a form-meaning correspondence. 错因——任意性 16) The function of language is to exchange information. 错因——问作者,他应该觉得be to do=就是为了交换信息,就没有其他功能了。
词源:The word stems from the Latin terms liber, meaning both “free” and “generous,” and liberalis, “befitting a freeborn person.” The noun form corre sponding to these two words was liberalitas, or “liberality.” pp.9. 首要的是自由意味着当事人具有公民身份而非奴隶,这种自由状态需要...
a. the phonological or orthographic shape or appearance of a linguistic element, such as a word b. a linguistic element considered from the point of view of its shape or sound rather than, for example, its meaning 23. (Chemistry) crystallog See crystal form 24. (Biology) taxonomy a group...