Linguistic vs Structural - What's the difference?

linguistic | structural |

As adjectives the difference between linguistic and structural

is that linguistic is linguistic while structural is of, relating to, or having structure.

As a noun structural is

a component used in construction.

linguistic

English

Adjective

(-)

Of or relating to language.

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Of or relating to linguistics.

We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.

(computing) Relating to a computer language.

* 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:

The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

Derived terms

* linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic

structural

English

Adjective

(-)

Of, relating to, or having structure

(rfc-sense) Used in building.

Derived terms

* structurally * nonstructural

Noun

(en noun)

A component used in construction.

* 1982 , United States International Trade Commission, Certain carbon steel products from Spain (page A-49)

Freight differentials often increased the spread in favor of the imported structurals . Purchasers repeatedly emphasized that their purchases of imported structurals were split among a number of sources, including Spain, France, West Germany,

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