semantics
语义学,语意学,语义
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Definitions
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- : Linguistics. the study of meaning.the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- : Also called significs. the branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote.
- : the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.: Let's not argue about semantics.
- : general semantics.
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Examples
How important are the semantics when it comes to talking about Hitler?
To those who see all sex work falling under the same illicit umbrella, this is mere semantics.
Her disassociation with the feminist label and its negative connotations just boils down to semantics.
But the wiser voices in the movement know that, now, they face much graver problems than semantics.
Washington has a serious tendency to exalt semantics over common sense.
"Remember semantics," I murmured to him, as I pulled out Sara's chair for her.
He could express it in the semantics of spiritism, or he could admit to witchcraft and sorcery.
There was already the psychology of Freud and his successors, of course, which gave the first real notion of human semantics.
We were walking over toward the elevator during this conversation and as far as blowing up, this is semantics.
He prefers to call himself a Marxist, but there you get into the field of semantics.