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define
English
Etymology
From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin d?f?ni? (“limit, settle, define”), from d? + f?ni? (“set a limit, bound, end”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fa?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Verb
define (third-person singular simple present defines, present participle defining, simple past and past participle defined)
- To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
- Rings […] very distinct and well defined.
- (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.) [16th-17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.3:
- These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.3:
- To express the essential nature of something.
- To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
- To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
- To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
- (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
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Translations
Noun
define (plural defines)
- (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.
- 1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
- From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.
- 1999, Ian Joyner, Objects unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++ (page 309)
- Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support.
- 1996, James Gosling, Henry McGilton, The Java Language Environment
Translations
Further reading
- define in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- define in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- feed-in, feedin', infeed
Galician
Verb
define
- third-person singular present indicative of definir
- second-person singular imperative of definir
Portuguese
Verb
define
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of definir
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of definir
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de?fine/, [d?e?fi.ne]
Verb
define
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of definir.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of definir.
Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (daf?na).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.fi??ne/
Noun
define
- treasure trove
Declension
References
- define in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
define From the web:
- what defines a fruit
- what defines a cult
- what defines a cult
- what defines an alcoholic
- what defines a pandemic
- what defines a species
- what defines a sport
- what defines a sport
metalanguage
English
Etymology
meta- +? language
Pronunciation
Noun
metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)
- (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process
- 2005, Michael Cronin, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 255:
- In order to talk or theorise about phenomena, one inevitably uses a language that is in effect a metalanguage, a special instance of language that allows the theorist to stand back and describe what is happening.
- 2005, Michael Cronin, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 255:
- (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language
Related terms
- metalingual metalinguist
Translations
See also
- object language
- epilanguage
metalanguage From the web:
- metalanguage meaning
- what is metalanguage in english
- what does metalanguage mean
- what is metalanguage examples
- what is metalanguage in linguistics
- what is metalanguage in teaching
- what is metalanguage pdf
- what is metalanguage in education
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