Lexical refers to something to do with language, words and vocabulary. It can also refer to a way of teaching a new or foreign language, the Lexical approach.
Lexical analyzer generators translate regular expressions (the lexical analyzer definition) into finite automata (the lexical analyzer). For example, a lexical analyzer definition may specify a number of regular expressions describing different lexical forms (integer, string, identifier, comment, etc.). The lexical analyzer generator would then translate that definition into a program module that can use the deterministic finite automata to analyze text and split it into lexemes (tokens).
The lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is the meaning of the term in common usage. As its other name implies, this is the sort of definition one is likely to find in the dictionary.
Lexical awareness = knowledge of vocabulary (word meanings)
A lexical affix is a morpheme that attaches to a base word to create a new word with a different meaning or function. Unlike grammatical affixes, which primarily affect the grammatical structure of a word, lexical affixes bring about changes in the meaning or lexical category of the word.
His lexical skills were far better than anyone in the company. This is an example of word for lexical. The instructor defended throwing a book at me to wake me up by saying that he was using a lexical approach.
beauty beautifully
The Greek word for Fruit is Karpos (Lexical Form).
Lexical conditioning refers to the influence of individual words or lexical items on the pronunciation, meaning, or grammar of other words in a language. It occurs when the form or behavior of one word is affected by another word, often when they are adjacent to each other in a phrase or sentence.
A lexical metaphor involves the substitution of one word for another in a figurative sense, while a grammatical metaphor involves the transformation of grammatical structures to create metaphorical meanings. Lexical metaphors change the word level, while grammatical metaphors alter the structure of the sentence.
The lexical meaning of a word is given in a dictionary. Derivation is the history of that word's meaning. For example the word "derivation" (in this sense meaning "etymology") is derived from the Latin derivare, "to draw off," derived from de-, away, off, and rivus, stream.
Complete phonological access to a word means being able to retrieve the word's sounds and syllable structure. In contrast, not having lexical access to a word means being unable to retrieve its meaning or specific lexical representation. Therefore, it is possible to recognize and produce the sounds of a word without knowing its meaning or specific identity.
"Linguistic" is a word that means pertaining to words or language.