Punctualize

Quick meaning: Punctualize is a verb meaning (linguistics) To express an action as happening at a specific moment.

Meaning

(linguistics) To express an action as happening at a specific moment.

More Meanings

1. To render as, or turn into, a point; (specifically, sociology) to consider a conceptual or social network as a single point-like entity or “black box”.

Example Sentences

The ability to punctualize an act is therefore highly conducive to keeping verbs outside the aspectual system […]

Certainly, some networks are easier to punctualize than others. They are network packages, routines, taken for granted.

Among indices of the first type, we find not only adverbs like hier ‘yesterday’, but also a variety of other expressions that serve to punctualize or indicate a specific time.

Their distribution is complementary insofar as preverbs mark the punctuality of accomplishments (and some achievements), whereas the doni suffix punctualizes activities and states.

Word Forms

• punctualizes
• punctualizing
• punctualized
• punctualise

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