单词 | function word |
释义 | function wordnouna word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word). Also called form word. Origin of function wordFirst recorded in 1935–40 Words nearby function wordfunction creep, functioning, function key, function shift, function space, function word, functor, fund, fundament, fundamental, fundamental bass Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for function wordfunction word noungrammar a word, such as the, with a particular grammatical role but little identifiable meaningCompare content word, grammatical meaning Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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