Semantics vs Holonymy - What's the difference?
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(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz, [http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse32 Learn Prolog Now!] , section 8.1:
The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
(countable, semantics) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
(uncountable, semantics) The quality or nature of being the whole in a holonymous relation.
Semantics is a see also of holonymy.
As an adjective semantics
is .As a noun holonymy is
(countable|semantics) a semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).semantics
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(wikipedia semantics) (-)- Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.
- In fact, nowadays a lot is known about the semantics of natural languages, and it is surprisingly easy to build semantic representations which partially capture the meaning of sentences or even entire discourses.
- The semantics of the terms used are debatable.
- The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself.