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Lexeme vs Seme - What's the difference?

lexeme | seme |

As nouns the difference between lexeme and seme

is that lexeme is roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term) while seme is anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.

As a verb seme is

obsolete form of lang=en.

As an adjective seme is

obsolete form of semé|lang=en.

lexeme

English

(wikipedia lexeme)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).
  • (computing) an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)

    • Usage notes

    * (term), (term), (term) and (term) are variations of the English lexeme (run); whereas (term) and (term) aren’t: they are forms of the lexeme (runner). * Both contain the morpheme (term), which is a root form referring to “skin”. This is not a lexeme, though.

    Derived terms

    * *

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grapheme * lingueme * listeme * morpheme * phoneme * term * toneme * word ----

    seme

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
    • Related terms
    * semantics * semiotics

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 4

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * , I.46:
    • I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

    Etymology 5

    .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
  • * 2008 , Dru Pagliassotti, "Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 73:
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • Sebas has always been the seme .
  • * 2011 , Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, "Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers", in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:
    • The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
    Antonyms
    * uke

    Anagrams

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