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What are 2 subentries for mixture?
Two subentries for "mixture" could be "homogeneous mixture" and "heterogeneous mixture." A homogeneous mixture is one in which the components are uniformly distributed, such as saltwater, while a heterogeneous mixture consists of visibly different substances or phases, like a salad or a rock mix. These distinctions help in understanding the properties and behaviors of different types of mixtures in chemistry.
What is a subentry in a index?
A subentry in an index is a specific entry that falls under a broader main entry, providing more detailed information or context about a particular topic. It typically appears indented beneath the main entry, helping users locate specific subtopics or related information efficiently. Subentries enhance the index's organization, making it easier to navigate complex subjects.
How many word in English language?
The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of exclamations, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. And these figures don't take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective).This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million.
In linguistics what is the difference between a morpheme a lexeme and a lemma?
First things first: morphemes.A morpheme is the smallest lexical unit bearing meaning in a word, the basic component in a way. Affixes and suffixes are morphemes.Eg: "Restart" is formed with two morphemes. Start [=begin], but also Re [=again].That was the almost easy bit. Now, lemmas and lexemes... bit tougher.A lemma is basically the word form you look for in a dictionary.Eg: you just read the sentence "I like eating furniture - my son, on the other hand, eats plastic yucca plants. We eat in, most of the time." (I have no idea where you could read this, but still).You do not know what "eating" and "eats" mean (also unlikely, but bear with me).Grab your imaginary dictionary - you know there won't be anything under "eating" or "eats", so look at "eat"."Eat" is the lemma here. It's the word you will find in a dictionary, it's the reference word, if you will.Now, lexemes - treacherous bunch.Lexemes are semantic units: 1 lexeme = 1 meaning. But there are variable lexemes (=that can have different forms). Moreover, lexemes don't have to be just one word. Ooh, ouch, I know.Wait, wait! Don't run away just yet. Let's carry on with our previous gastronomical example, shall we? You've still got your imaginary dictionary in hand, have you?You'll find neither eats or eating in the dictionary - they are variants of the lexeme EAT. The meaning is carried by EAT, not by the morphemes S or ING, right? That's a variable lexeme: it can have several forms.Also, our omnivore above wrote "We eat in".You'll have an entry for "in" but you won't find "eat in" there.You'll have an entry for "eat", but it's not there either - not really. There's a subentry for "eat in". There you are.Semantically speaking, eating in is not eating+in. It carries special meaning (=having dinner at home). So it's two words put together that have one particular meaning. EAT IN is a lexeme.Basically: in a dictionary, headwords are lemmas andlexemes. Subentries, on the other hand, are just lexemes.Hope that helped!
How many English words exist?
There is no absolute answer to this question. It depends on the definition of 'word' as a feature of language. A single spelling of a word (for example "set") may have multiple meanings. Fortunately English does not conjugate all verbs by multiple spelling changes, which is the largest number of words in many languages. But we do have plurals, and gerunds, and a large number of adjectives and adverbs formed from the base words (e.g. sets, setting, unsettled, subsets). And there are hyphenated and idiomatic uses (set-to, set-up).It is also difficult to decide what counts as 'English' because of loanwords. These include medical and scientific terms. Also Latin words used in law, French words used in cooking, German words used in academic writing, and Japanese words used in martial arts. (Should we count Scots dialect? Youth slang? Computing jargon?)One estimateThe Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective).This suggests that there are, at the very least, 250,000 distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach 750,000 to a million. And new words are being added all the time.(see related links)More than are listed in the largest dictionary and growing.It's probably impossible to say, particularly as new words are constantly being coined.The Oxford English Dictionary has over 600,000 words.It isn't possible to count the number of words in any language; at best we can make rough estimates, and those estimates are very rough indeed.Words are being added to every language all the time, so even if we could count the number of words in a language - and work out what counts as a word for the purpose of the calculation - that number would only apply on the day we did the counting.See the link below for comments from Oxford Dictionaries on this.Over 1 Million noone knows the Exact number SorryThere is no single sensible answer to this question. It's impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it's so hard to decide what actually counts as a word. Is dog one word, or two (a noun meaning 'a kind of animal', and a verb meaning 'to follow persistently')? If we count it as two, then do we count inflections separately too (e.g. dogs = plural noun, dogs = present tense of the verb). Is dog-tired a word, or just two other words joined together? Is hot dog really two words, since it might also be written as hot-dog or even hotdog?It's also difficult to decide what counts as 'English'. What about medical and scientific terms? Latin words used in law, French words used in cooking, German words used in academic writing, Japanese words used in martial arts? Do you count Scots dialect? Teenage slang? Abbreviations?The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of exclamations, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. And these figures don't take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective).This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million. As you speak more words are being said or created making it impossible to even give a round about answerHalf a million
How many words is there in the American language?
There are 5 vowels and 2 semi-vowels (Y and W).But there are from 11 to 20 "vowel sounds" in English, made by one or more vowels in various words.Vowels in the English AlphabetThe 5 traditional vowels are A, E, I, O, and U. However, in English the the letters W and Y can also represent vowel sounds, but they don't always do so. Hence, they may be considered vowels "sometimes". Examples with Y and W as vowels:In the word "by" [ˈbɑɪ], the Y represents the vowel diphthong [ɑɪ], sometimes called the "Long I" sound.In the word "cow" [ˈkaʊ], the W represents the vowel sound [ʊ].Examples where Y and W do not represent vowels:In the word "yet" [jɛt], the Y represents the semi-vowel sound [j].In the word "we" [wi:], the W represents the semi-vowel sound [w].Vowel Sounds in the English LanguageDepending on the accent, the English language can have anywhere from 11 to 20 vowel sounds. As evidenced above, the English alphabet only has 5 letters that are used exclusively to represent vowels. Using the General American accent as an example, these are some of the vowel sounds that exist, excluding diphthongs:[ɑ] - the A in father[æ] - the A in cat[ə] - the A in about[ɛ] - the E in bet[e] - the A in pay[ɜ]* - the UR in purple or the IRin bird, usually followed by an [ɹ][i] - the I in machine[ɪ] - the I in big[o] - the O in toe[ɔ] - the O in cost[u] - the OO in cool[ʊ] - the OO in good[ʌ] - the U in bug*R-colored (rhotic) vowels: [ɝ] - the OR in work[ɚ] - the ER in butter
How many words can you spell from Easter Bunnies?
Some words you can make from Easter Day: Aerated, aerates, daresay, dearest, sedater strayed, aerate, astray, daters, desert, deters, eaters, eatery, erased, redyes, rested, seared, seated, sedate, stared, stayed, stayer, steady, teared, teased, teaser, trades, treads, areas, artsy, aster, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, deary, deter, drays, dyers, eared, eased, eater, erase, ester, rated, rates, reads, ready, reeds, reedy, reset, sated, satyr, seedy, sered, stare, stead, steed, steer, stray, tardy, tared, tares, tears, teary, tease, terse, trade, trays, tread, treed, trees, treys, yards, years, yeast, area, ares, arts, arty, ayes, dare, dart, data, date, days, dear, deer, drat, dray, drys, dyer, dyes, ears, ease, east, easy, eat, eras, erst, etas, eyed, eyes, rads, rate, rats, rays, read, reds, reed, rest, sate, sear, seat, seed, seer, sere, star, stay, tads, tare, tars, tear, teas, teed, tees, tray, tree, trey, yard, year, yeas, ads, are, art, ate, aye, day, dry, dye, ear, eat, era, eye, rad, rat, ray, red, res, rye, sad, sat, say, sea, see, set, sty, tad, tar, tea, tee, try, yea, yes, yet, ad, as, at, ya, ye and a.
