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Parole vs Grammaticality - What's the difference?

parole | grammaticality |

As nouns the difference between parole and grammaticality

is that parole is password while grammaticality is (of language) the state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.

parole

English

(wikipedia parole)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The release or state of a former prisoner on the understanding that he/she checks in regularly and obeys the law.
    • He will be on parole for nearly two more years.
    He was released on parole .
    The defendant shall be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole .
  • The amount of time a former prisoner spends on limited release.
  • (archaic) A word of honor, especially given by a prisoner of war, to not engage in combat if released.
  • * Macaulay
    • This man had forfeited his military parole .
  • (linguistics) Language in use, as opposed to language as a system.
  • (US, immigration law) The permission for foreigner who does not meet the technical requirements for a visa to be allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
  • A watchword given only to officers of guards; distinguished from the countersign, which is given to all guards.
  • (legal) An oral declaration; see parol.

    • Derived terms

    * parole board * parolee

    External links

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    Verb

    (parol)
  • To release (a prisoner) on the understanding that s/he checks in regularly and obeys the law.

    • grammaticality

    English

    Noun

  • (of language) The state or attribute of obeying the rules of grammar; grammatical correctness.
  • * 1963 , Peter Lackowski, “Words as Grammatical Primes”, Language , vol. 39, no. 2, p. 214:
    • One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent.

    Synonyms

    * grammaticalness

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989. * Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.