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lexis

/lek-sis/US // ˈlɛk sɪs //UK // (ˈlɛksɪs) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Linguistics.

    • : the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.

Examples

  • The FBI claimed the Lexis-Nexis searches cost the Times $300,000 and Lamo faced 15 years in jail for the breach.

  • For in the view of the Greeks the words (lexis) were an integral part of the whole composition.

  • But there was a separate dispute far less notorious as to the quality of the lexis.

  • Porson was accustomed, meanly enough, to ridicule the Greek lexis of this ode; which was to break a fly upon the wheel.