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dialect

/dahy-uh-lekt/US // ˈdaɪ əˌlɛkt //UK // (ˈdaɪəˌlɛkt) //

方言,语,辩证法,辩证地看待

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Linguistics. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.
    • : a provincial, rural, or socially distinct variety of a language that differs from the standard language, especially when considered as substandard.
    • : a special variety of a language: The literary dialect is usually taken as the standard language.
    • : a language considered as one of a group that have a common ancestor: Persian, Latin, and English are Indo-European dialects.
    • : jargon or cant.

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Examples

  • Each has its own language or dialect, some similar, some mutually unintelligible.

  • The power portion is pretty straightforward, but the communication, as with human languages, can run into some challenges with dialect, even when they speak the same language.

  • We’ve got a big project right now, which is mapping all of the dialects in Scotland into a gigantic atlas and looking at how they all interrelate to each other and how people use them.

  • Or, you may be targeting people who already speak English but use different words based on regional dialects.

  • The findings fly in the face of previous hypotheses that birdsong dialects don’t change much within local regions.

  • He frequently slips into Neapolitan dialect so thick that is incomprehensible.

  • Sicilian dialect is filled with Arabic words like mischinu (taken from the Arabic word miskin), which means a poor person.

  • Dialect, for instance, was not his métier, so like a true devotee of the form he exploited his incompetence for laughs.

  • I got it, and then I had a different dialect coach who worked with me on the project.

  • I must apologize for my regional dialect taking over everything.

  • "No, she don't or'ter," the Colonel thought, involuntarily adopting Jake's dialect; but what to do with her was the question.

  • Their speech is a dialect called Chabucano—a mixture of very corrupt Spanish and native tongues.

  • The Press is represented by a large number of American, Spanish and dialect newspapers.

  • For months the public organs, issued in Spanish and dialect, persistently denounced it as a harbinger of ruin to the Colony.

  • In its inception it was a mere attempt to write pleasing, popular verse of a better kind in the dialect of the fireside.