In still another variation, the nonsense word is presented and the teacher asks, "What sound was in the beginning of the word?" "In the middle?" and so on.#* 1974, Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice (ISBN 0199839077), page 183:.# A sequence of letters or characters, or sounds, which (does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning, but which) is considered as a discrete entity.#* 1999, Linda Greenlaw, The Hungry Ocean, Hyperion, page 11:.“Ain’t! How often am I to tell you ain’t ain’t a word ?”.#* 1896, ( Israel Zangwill), Without Prejudice, page 21:.# A discrete, meaningful unit of language which is approved by some authority.Well-meaning academics even introduced spelling absurdities such as the “s” in the word “island,” a misguided Renaissance attempt to restore the etymology of the Latin word insula.#* 2009, Stanislas Dehaene, Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read (ISBN 1101152400):.The name was a confused gift of love from her father, who could not read the word but picked it out of the Bible for its visual shape,.#* 2003, Jan Furman, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A Casebook (ISBN 0195146352), page 194:.Hamlet: Words ', '''words''', ' words.# The smallest discrete unit of written language which has a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes.Then all was silent save the voice of the high priest, whose words grew louder and louder,.Mackwen, The Samaritan Passover'', in ''Littell's Living Age, series 6, volume 1: # The smallest discrete unit of spoken language which has a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes.Brian then signed the '''word for ''change, They both spoke the '''word''' ''clothing''. * 2009, Jack Fitzgerald, Viva La Evolucin (ISBN 055719833X), page 233:īrian and Abby signed the word ' ''clothing'', in which the thumbs brush down the chest as though something is hanging there.Without such knowledge, 'Maggie' would just be a meaningless pattern of shapes or sounds. We only connect the two because we have learnt the code - language. The word, whether written or spoken, does not look like or sound like its meaning - it does not resemble its signified. The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language.The word me signed in American Sign Language. The word island'' is six letters long the ''s'' has never been pronounced but was added under the influence of ''isle. The word inventory may be pronounced with four syllables (/?n.v?n.t?.?i/) or only three (/?n?v?n.t?i/). &hand In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. ( lb) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property a conveyance a deed.It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited. &hand Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. Insurance a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.Excess of boldness impudence audacity as, his assurance is intolerable.*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.His air, of self-confident assurance, seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.*:Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance.*:Brave men meet danger with assurance.Firmness of mind undoubting, steadiness intrepidity courage confidence self-reliance.*:Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.The state of being assured firm persuasion full confidence or trust freedom from doubt certainty.*: Assurances of support came pouring in daily.*:Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. The act of assuring a declaration tending to inspire full confidence that which is designed to give confidence.
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