Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
- double dagger
- a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
- Gros Ventre
- a Siouan language spoken by the Hidatsa
- capitalization
- writing in capital letters
- rockabilly
- a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat
- magnetic medium
- any storage medium in which different patterns of magnetization are used to represent stored bits or bytes of information
- Newari
- Himalayish language spoken in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal
- amphibology
- an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
- misinformation
- information that is incorrect
- web page
- a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser
- relatum
- a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition
- three-D
- a movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
- reduplication
- a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
- romance
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- miracle play
- a medieval play representing episodes from the life of a saint or martyr
- iris scanning
- biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye
- key word
- a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
- Signorina
- an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman
- lemma
- the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
- Navy Cross
- a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy
- syntagm
- a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit
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