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Appositions

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appositivenoun(grammar) a word or phrase that is in apposition
adpositionnoun(grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
appellativesnounA common noun.
appointernounA person who appoints (in any sense).
interpositionsnounThe act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
prepositionsnoun(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
collocationsnoun(linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
appellationsnoun(formal or dated) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.
appellativenounA common noun.
attributionsnounThe act of attributing something.
applicativenoun(grammar) A grammatical construct that casts a peripheral noun phrase as direct object.
attributivesnoun(grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.
appositenessnounthe state of being apposite
adjacenciesnounThe quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch.
postpositionnoun(grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
applanationnoun(pathology, ophthalmology) The flattening of the cornea, especially by the application of pressure.
appendantnounAnything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
appanagesnounAlternative form of apanage. [(historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.]
conjugationsnoun(grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
appurtenantOf or pertaining to an appurtenance.

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