Concordance

//kənˈkɔːdəns// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Agreement; accordance; consonance. countable, uncountable

    "John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances."

  2. 2
    an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts wordnet
  3. 3
    Agreement of words with one another; concord. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 4
    agreement of opinions wordnet
  5. 5
    An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place. countable, uncountable

    "c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance."

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  1. 6
    a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole wordnet
  2. 7
    A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To create a concordance from (a corpus). transitive

    "Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Etymology 2

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

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