different between utterance vs nonsentence
utterance
English
Alternative forms
- utteraunce
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t???ns/
- Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance
Etymology 1
From utter +? -ance.
Noun
utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)
- An act of uttering.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Something spoken.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- The ability to speak.
- A manner of speaking.
- (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.
Related terms
- utter
- utterable
- utterer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French oultrance.
Noun
utterance (plural utterances)
- (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
References
Further reading
- utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- cruentate
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nonsentence
English
Etymology
From non- +? sentence.
Noun
nonsentence (plural nonsentences)
- (grammar) An utterance that is not a sentence.
- 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:
- Those strings in the language are called sentences; the strings not in the language are called nonsentences.
- 1979, Steven Pinker, "Formal models of language learning", Language, Cognition, and Human Nature:
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