Lexicon

//ˈlɛk.sɪ.kɒn//

"Lexicon" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The verb "to downdate" does not exist in the English lexicon, but let's go ahead and coin it anyway.

I feel I need a whole new lexicon, as my language fails me.

Neither the lexicon nor the pattern-book of English is closed.

It is less the available structures and lexicon of a particular language that influence speakers' thought than the range they choose to call their own.

This is a universal lexicon.

This about the lexicon, stubbornness, the broad beans, the raven and the goat. Everyone thinks that only their beans cook well. The crow, for some people, is a goat, even if they see it fly away. It's like you said.

The lexicon is more specific.

There's also a financial lexicon.

There's more specific lexicon.

It is necessary to employ the appropriate legal lexicon, but at the same time, the law has to be able to be understood by everyone in the country.

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Formalism seeks to correct this deficiency by translating verbal texts into formal, mathematizable lexicons which are then manipulated into general propositions.

Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation.

the baseball lexicon

Turns, twists, walks, runs, falls, and somersaults, along with many other movements, are the specific vocabularic elements which make up the lexicon of dance.

a baseball lexicon

Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.

Mrazek’s legislation would discourage time compression, a technique used to speed up a movie, and “lexiconing,” a process of altering the soundtrack to match the shorter, compressed version.

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