What does grammar mean?
Grammar means (countable and uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general..
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ · noun
(countable and uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general..
Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.
We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.
a grammar of geography
To turn this sort of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible.
He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High.
Hickerson has a computer program which found a spaceship with speed c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them.
Within a few hours of finding the first period 2 ship, Dean had discovered a grammar for constructing an infinite number of different short, wide, period 2 spaceships. A grammar is an "alphabet" of "components", along with rules for the possible sequences of connections between components. Components are simply the identifiable pieces of a ship which reappear over and over in different ships in different combinations.
Dean's discovery included a much more plentiful family than just the light, medium, and heavy weight spaceships that have been known since the beginning, which he was able to organize into a series of tiles and a grammar for them.
Use grammar when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grammar means (countable and uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general..
Common synonyms include glomery.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.