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semantic

adj
/sɪˈmæntɪk/

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.

  1. borrowed from σημαντικός

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.

  2. Reflecting intended structure and meaning.

  3. Petty or trivial

    Petty or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic…

      In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.

      • Its semantic is polysyllabic, viz. it uses the word formations of spoken Chinese.
      • In this particular case, the semantic is on the left of its host sinogram.
      • The 亻(人) ren2 'person' semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water' semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person' has been removed.

The neighborhood

Derived

asemantic, autosemantic, biosemantic, endosemantic, episemantic, ethnosemantic, exosemantic, extrasemantic, grammaticosemantic, isosemantic, lexicosemantic, metasemantic, monosemantic, morphosemantic, neurosemantic, nonsemantic, phonosemantic, phono-semantic compound, phono-semantic matching, polysemantic, presemantic, psychosemantic, quasisemantic, semanteme, semantically, semantic analysis, semantic bleaching, semantic borrowing, semantic calque, semantic change, semantic differentiation, semantic drift, semantic field, semantician, semanticism, semanticist, semanticity, semanticization, semanticize, semantic layer · +13 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at semantic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at semantic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at semantic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA