单词 | meronym |
释义 | meronymn. 1. A word denoting the mid point of two extremes. rare. ΚΠ 1970 J. T. Shipley Dict. World Lit. Terms (new ed.) 196/2 Meronym, a term midway of polarity, the mean between two extremes, as convex, flat, concave; theism, agnosticism, atheism. 2. Linguistics. A word denoting an object which forms part of another object. Cf. meronymy n. ΚΠ 1986 D. A. Cruse Lexical Semantics vii. 160 X is a meronym of Y if and only if sentences of the form A Y has Xs/an X and An X is a part of a Y are normal when the noun phrase an X, a Y are interpreted generically. 1988 Language & Cognitive Processes 3 27 Most of the meronym relations are clustered in the right-hand two-thirds of the figure. 1994 Guardian 10 Nov. (OnLine section) 5/4 WordNet..also includes meronyms (components, as handle is to cup), holonyms [etc.]. 1997 P. H. Matthews Conc. Oxf. Dict. Linguistics at Meronymy Sleeve is a meronym of coat, dress, or blouse. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1970 |
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