Seme vs Morpheme - What's the difference?
seme | morpheme |
(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.
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(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,
* 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801,
* 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,
(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
As nouns the difference between seme and morpheme
is that 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 while morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".As a verb seme
is obsolete form of lang=en.As an adjective seme
is obsolete form of semé|lang=en.seme
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en-noun)Etymology 2
Verb
Etymology 3
Noun
(head)Etymology 4
Adjective
(head)- I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.
Etymology 5
.Noun
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- Sebas has always been the seme .
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- The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
Antonyms
* ukeAnagrams
* * * ----morpheme
English
(wikipedia morpheme)Noun
(en noun)- The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
- The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).