different between syntactic vs turnstile

English

Etymology

Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (suntaktikós), or from syntax +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n?tækt?k/
• Rhymes: -ækt?k

Adjective

syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)

1. Of, related to or connected with syntax.

   The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.

   • 2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674:

     the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.

2. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

Synonyms

• (of, related to or connected with syntax): syntactical

Related terms

• syntax

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Further reading

• syntactic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• syntactic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

turn +? stile

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??nsta?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?nsta?l/

Noun

turnstile (plural turnstiles)

1. A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
2. A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
3. (mathematics, logic) The ${\displaystyle \vdash }$ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )

Related terms

• (mathematics, logic): double turnstile

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