Look up: partitive


  1. partitive
    [adj] - (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole 2. [adj] - indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts 3. [adj] - serving to separate or divide into parts 4. [n] - word (such a...
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  2. Partitive
    Par'ti·tive adjective [ Confer French partitif .] (Gram.) Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/28

  3. Partitive
    Par'ti·tive noun (Gram.) A word expressing partition, or denoting a part.
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  4. partitive
    adjective indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts; `partitive tendencies in education`
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  5. partitive
    adjective serving to separate or divide into parts; `partitive tendencies in education`; `the uniting influence was stronger than the separative`
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  6. partitive
    noun word (such a `some` or `less`) that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
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  7. Partitive
    • (a.) Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. • (n.) A word expressing partition, or denoting a part.
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  8. Partitive
    In linguistics, the partitive is a word, phrase, or case that divides something into parts. For example, in the English sentence I`ll have `some coffee``, ``some`` is a partitive determiner, because it makes the noun phrase ``some coffee`` refer to a subset of all coffee. Similarly, the preposition...
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  9. partitive
    1) Relation
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/partitive/1

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