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Having no semantic content
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An approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects called denotations which describe the meanings of expressions from the languages
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The study of the semantics, or interpretations, of formal languages
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An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world
lexical <span class="word-self">semanticsspan>
The study of how the words of a language denote either things in the real world or concepts
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A study of formal semantics of computer languages, such as denotational semantics
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The study of the relationship between words and their meanings
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A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words

Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.

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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.

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The study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods
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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
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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
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The study of the meaning of language, including meaning at the word, sentence, and conversational level
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The implied meaning of data Used to define what entities mean with respect to their roles in a system
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 - the study of meanings in language
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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)
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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
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The semantics of a programming language describe the relationship between the syntactical elements and the model of computation
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The meaning of a statement
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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
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the study of meaning in language
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the study of linguistic meaning
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The rules defining what expressions and statements in a language mean (or what they do) Contrast syntax
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Part of the structure of language, along with phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, which involves understanding the meaning of words, sentences, and texts
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semantics is the study of meaning
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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
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Significance or meaning In the case of Dublin Core, the significance or intended meaning of individual metadata elements and their components
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The study of relations between a representation and what it represents <Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith
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the study of meaning As used by Charles Morris, that branch of semiotics devoted to studying the relationship between signs and their objects
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The meaning of the various forms of instructions in a programming language
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the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, or sentence, as opposed to its syntactic construction Same as "semiotics " See also: onomasiology
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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
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{i} study of the meaning and use of words and phrases
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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
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the study of words and their meanings
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the study of language meaning
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{i} semasiology