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  2. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    servant- NOM l-lāh-i DEF -god- GEN ʕabd-u l-lāh-i servant-NOM DEF-god-GEN "servant of-the-god: the servant of God" Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes. Compounds may or may not require the use of derivational morphemes also. In German, extremely extendable compound words can be found in the language of chemical compounds, where, in the cases of ...

  3. English compound - Wikipedia

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    A compound is a word composed of more than one free morpheme. [1] The English language, like many others, uses compounds frequently. English compounds may be classified in several ways, such as the word classes or the semantic relationship of their components.

  4. Composite - Wikipedia

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    Composite character, a character in an adaptation of a work formed from two or more characters from the original work; Composite monarchy, a category for several countries under one ruler; Composite motion, in parliamentary procedure, created by assimilating multiple motions into one; Composite order, in architecture, a type of capital on a column

  5. Composition (language) - Wikipedia

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    A copy of Aristotle's Rhetoric, printed in one of the earliest stages of the printing press. The term composition (from Latin com-"with" and ponere "to place") as it refers to writing, can describe authors' decisions about, processes for designing, and sometimes the final product of, a composed linguistic work.

  6. Composition - Wikipedia

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    Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space Composition (visual arts) , the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work

  7. Conceptual combination - Wikipedia

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    As language is the means by which concepts are communicated and expressed, the processed involved in linguistic expression and interpretation are heavily intertwined with combined concepts. Many theories of concept combination mechanisms, including constraint theory [ 5 ] were developed within the context of language, and therefore make more ...

  8. Composite material - Wikipedia

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    Composite materials are also becoming more common in the realm of orthopedic surgery, [42] and it is the most common hockey stick material. Carbon composite is a key material in today's launch vehicles and heat shields for the re-entry phase of spacecraft. It is widely used in solar panel substrates, antenna reflectors and yokes of spacecraft.

  9. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    The use of figurative language as a poetic device function to convey the poet's intended meaning in various ways. Allusion–A brief reference to a person, character, historical event, work of art, and Biblical or mythological situation. Analogy–Drawing a comparison or inference between two situations to convey the poet's message more ...