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LINGUISTIC STRING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A linear sequence of words as spoken or written
Synonyms:
linguistic string; string of words; word string
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("linguistic string" is a kind of...):
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
string (a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linguistic string"):
sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)
syntagm; syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)
