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wordshaping

noun

Etymology

From word + shaping. Compare Dutch woordschepping, German Wortschöpfung (“word creation”), Swedish ordskapande.

  1. derived from *skapjaną✻ — “to form, shape, create”
  2. inherited from *skapjandz✻
  3. inherited from *skappjandī✻
  4. inherited from sċyppende
  5. inherited from shapinge
  6. compounded as wordshaping — “word + shaping”

Definitions

  1. The art or practice of shaping, forming, or creating words.

    • Another fault exists in our Hebrew books of instruction: though they greedily compare roots or what are supposed to be roots, they exclude the general principles of wordshaping, which as long as man has a mouth will be found prevailing […]
    • Marie von Sievers had her place in the art of word-shaping; to dramatic representation she had the most beautiful relationship.

  2. The art of using words to form representations or images.

    • Such word-shaping is useful to all wayfinders but particularly so to wayfinders with one or another form of sight-impairment. Word-shaping is particularly important in the context of wayfinding because of most sign-panels […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordshaping. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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