The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage
The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself.
The relationship between words or symbols and their intended meanings Semantic rules apply to spoken and written languages as well as programming languages See also syntax
The characterization, for a natural or artificial, language of relations between sentences such as sameness in meaning, semantic consequences (i e that if one sentence is true, such and so others must be true), and relationships between sentences and the world (truth) Characterizations of meaning and menaingfulness come under this heading See pragmatics and syntactics
The study of the meaning of language, including meaning at the word, sentence, and conversational level
The implied meaning of data Used to define what entities mean with respect to their roles in a system
the branch of linguistics which studies meaning in language One can distinguish between the study of the meanings of words (lexical semantics) and the study of how the meanings of larger constituents come about (structural semantics)
In computer languages, the semantics are specified by the actions taken for each instance of the language, i e , the meaning of each statement See section Defining Language Semantics
The semantics of a programming language describe the relationship between the syntactical elements and the model of computation
in the study of language, semantics is concerned with the meaning of words, expressions and sentences, often in relation to reference and truth Semantics is contrasted with syntax (the study of logical or grammatical form) and pragmatics (the study of the contribution of contextual factors to the meaning of what language users say) Meta-semantic theories study key semantic notions such as meaning and truth and how these notions are related
The rules defining what expressions and statements in a language mean (or what they do) Contrast syntax
Part of the structure of language, along with phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, which involves understanding the meaning of words, sentences, and texts
The meaning associated with a set of symbols in a given language, which is determined by the syntactic structure of the symbols, as well as knowledge captured in an interpretative model See also: Syntax
Significance or meaning In the case of Dublin Core, the significance or intended meaning of individual metadata elements and their components
The study of relations between a representation and what it represents <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
the study of meaning As used by Charles Morris, that branch of semiotics devoted to studying the relationship between signs and their objects
the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, or sentence, as opposed to its syntactic construction Same as "semiotics " See also: onomasiology
The form semantic is used as a modifier. Semantics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the meanings of words and sentences. Study of meaning, one of the major areas of linguistic study (see linguistics). Linguists have approached it in a variety of ways. Members of the school of interpretive semantics study the structures of language independent of their conditions of use. In contrast, the advocates of generative semantics insist that the meaning of sentences is a function of their use. Still another group maintains that semantics will not advance until theorists take into account the psychological questions of how people form concepts and how these relate to word meanings
Theory of meaning; study of the signification of signs or symbols, as opposed to their formal relations (syntactics) Recommended Reading: , ed by Shalom Lappin (Blackwell, 1997) {at Amazon com}; Gennaro Chierchia and Sally McConnell-Ginet, Meaning and Grammar: An Introduction to Semantics (MIT, 2000) {at Amazon com}; F R Palmer, Semantics (Cambridge, 1981) {at Amazon com}; The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method, ed by Richard M Rorty (Chicago, 1992) {at Amazon com}; Robert C Stalnaker, Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thought (Oxford, 1999) {at Amazon com}; and Henriette De Swart, Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (C S L I, 1998) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP on semantics and its philosophical relevance, OCDL on semantics, formal semantics, and pragmatics, Ned Block, DPM, Andrew Carpenter, ColE, BGHT, noesis, and MacE
An approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects called denotations which describe the meanings of expressions from the languages
Part of the structure of language, along with phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, which involves understanding the meaning of words, sentences, and texts
Semantic is used to describe things that deal with the meanings of words and sentences. He did not want to enter into a semantic debate. relating to the meanings of words (semantikos , from semainein , from sema )
General, relating to meaning or signification In Semiotics, semantic means more narrowly, concerned with the relationship between the signs and the objects