| 单词 | locution |
| 释义 | locution (once / 6770 pages) n Your southern-born friend's habit of saying "y'all" when she's talking to her family could be described as locution — it's a word she habitually uses in particular situations. A person's style of speech — certain words or phrases she tends to use — is her locution, especially if it's specific to a particular place or group of people, like teenagers or French Canadians. You can also use the noun locution when you're talking about the way a person pronounces words. If someone tends to "beat around the bush," or tell a story in a roundabout way, you can call that circumlocution. WORD FAMILYlocution: circumlocution, locutions+/circumlocution: circumlocutions, circumlocutious USAGE EXAMPLESAustin distinguished “locution”, the act of speaking itself, from “illocution”: the thing done in the world by that act. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) “Page-swipers” conveys the notion of motion — the reader’s finger gliding on a glowing screen — but as a locution, it will never catch on. New York Times(Aug 28, 2016) Yet as used online, the locution usually refers to an experience not shared between the writer and the reader. Washington Post(Sep 15, 2016) n a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations Syn|Hypo|Hyper expression, saying Beatitude one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed) logiona saying of Jesus that is regarded as authentic although it is not recorded in the Gospels calque, calque formation, loan translationan expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language advice and consenta legal expression in the United States Constitution that allows the Senate to constrain the President's powers of appointment and treaty-making ambiguityan expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context euphemisman inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh dysphemisman offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one shucksan expression of disappointment or irritation tongue twisteran expression that is difficult to articulate clearly anatomical, anatomical referencean expression that relates to anatomy southernisma locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States catchword, motto, shibboleth, slogana favorite saying of a sect or political group axiom, maxima saying that is widely accepted on its own merits epigram, quipa witty saying adage, byword, proverb, sawa condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, phrase, set phrasean expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up agraphasayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels sumpsimusa correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression bus, heap, jalopya car that is old and unreliable loopholean ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation amphibology, amphibolyan ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes parisologythe use of ambiguous words double entendrean ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate catch phrase, catchphrasea phrase that has become a catchword mantraa commonly repeated word or phrase battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry, watchworda slogan used to rally support for a cause aphorism, apophthegm, apothegma short pithy instructive saying gnomea short pithy saying expressing a general truth moralisma moral maxim ruralism, rusticisma rural idiom or expression old manan informal term for your father language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication (language) communication by word of mouth |
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