Look up: lexeme

1. lexeme
   [n] - a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language
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2. Lexeme
   (Lexeme (lexemic / lexicon)) A lexeme is a word at its most basic, hence the word 'spell' is a lexeme from which can be derived a variety of other words: spelled, spelling, etc. Lexemes are found in dictionaries as a head word usually shown in bold, e.g. interest, bridge, mouse. Also counted as lexe...
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3. lexeme
   a word or root that is an item of vocabulary abstracted from sentence words Category: Language and literature
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4. lexeme
   noun a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go` and `went` and `gone` and `going` are all members of the English lexeme `go`
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5. lexeme
   (from the article `linguistics`) ...still less of a single syllable. Nor will the word as a grammatical unit necessarily coincide with the phonological word. Similarly, the units of ...
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6. lexeme
   lexeme, lexemic In linguistics, a word or stem that is a meaningful unit in a language as opposed to such a form as part of a grammatical structure.
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7. Lexeme
   A lexeme (pronunciation) is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, conventionally written as RUN. A related concept i...
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8. lexeme
   (grammar) A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis. (1996-04-06)
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