单词 | syntaxis |
释义 | syntaxisn. 1. a. The grammatical arrangement of words to form sentences; (also) the set of principles governing such arrangement; the branch of grammar concerned with this; = syntax n. 1. Now rare. In quot. a1637 with humorous allusion to syntax n. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] construction1530 syntaxis1540 composition1553 syntaxa1637 syntaxa1684 consecution1871 word order1872 taxis1885 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > study or science of syntaxis1540 syntax1548 rhematic1820 semiotics1880 syntagmatics1936 syntactics1937 lexotactics1966 1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Eijv To shew the Syntaxis and the concordance betwene the wordes gouernynge, and them that be gouerned. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 1 In learninge farther hys Syntaxis, by mine aduice, he shall not vse the common order. a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady i. i. 82 in Wks. (1640) III To wise And well experienc'd men, words doe but signifie; They have no power; save with dull Grammarians, Whose soules are nought, but a Syntaxis of them. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 28 The French tongue..is a bold and hardy speach, therefore the learner must not be bashfull..in speaking any thing,..let it come forth confidently whither true or false Sintaxis. 1897 J. W. Powell in 16th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1894–5 p. xxviii Dr Gatschet also continued his comparative studies of the phonetics, grammar, etymology, and syntaxis of all the Algonquian languages. 1996 J. S. Kuhnheim Gender, Politics, & Poetry in 20th-cent. Argentina iii. 51 The poet uses pseudosurrealistic..techniques to shock his readers, to tear us away from our habitual use of language and syntaxis. ΚΠ 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 39 If your meaning be with a violent..Hyperbaton to transpose the Text, as if the Words lay thus in order, neglect not the gift of Presbytery; this were..to make the word gift..start up to governe the word Presbyterie, as in immediate Syntaxis. ΚΠ 1730 in S. Duck Poems Several Subj. (ed. 7) p. iii He had some small share of Reading and Writing bestowed on him, with very little or no Grammar: For before he had reach'd his Syntaxis, his Mother..removed her Son from School. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. iii. 90 A young Gentleman..at the Age of Seventeen was just entered into his Syntaxis . View more context for this quotation 2. Geology. A bend in a fold axis or mountain range where subsidiary axes or ranges diverge; the meeting of mountain ranges at an angle. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > fold or dip > [noun] > axis of fold system > arrangement of fold axes syntaxis1904 plunge1913 1904 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth I. ii. vii. 422 Some opportunity is here afforded us of studying the relations of great folded chains to one another and the manner in which they congregate together [Schaarung, or Syntaxis]. [Translators' note] The English equivalent for Schaarung is trooping, or trooping together. As a literal rendering would involve periphrasis, the word ‘syntaxis’ has been adopted in the translation. 1909 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth IV. v. xiv. 502 The manner in which the arcs encounter each other is twofold, either they enter into syntaxis, or one arc cuts across the direction of the other. 1933 W. H. Bucher Deform. Earth's Crust iv. 84 The abrupt deflections and the repeated syntaxes of the Alpine system of southern Europe and western Asia. 1952 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 108 23 The Upper Assam valley..terminates in one of the most impressive examples of syntaxis which our fascinating world can offer. 1988 Nature 19 May 247/2 The Nanga Parbat massif..lies within a structural half-window (the Nanga Parbat syntaxis) through the principal Tertiary suture. 2005 N. Norman & G. Whitfield Geol. Journeys v. 125 You are into what geologists call the syntaxis zone. 3. Crystallography. = syntaxy n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > other reactions or processes > [noun] > crystal growth > syntaxy syntaxis1944 syntaxy1952 1944 Amer. Mineralogist 29 267 Ungemach..has introduced the term syntaxie to describe the coalescence of polytypic substances... The best English equivalent is probably ‘syntaxis’, the adjective being ‘syntaxic’. 1951 Philos. Mag. 42 1020 The commonly observed coalescence or ‘syntaxis’..of various types of carborundum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1540 |
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