vocabulary
词汇表,词汇量,词汇,词汇学
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plural vo·cab·u·lar·ies.
- : the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
- : a list or collection of the words or phrases of a language, technical field, etc., usually arranged in alphabetical order and defined: Study the vocabulary in the fourth chapter.
- : the words of a language.
- : any collection of signs or symbols constituting a means or system of nonverbal communication: vocabulary of a computer.
- : any more or less specific group of forms characteristic of an artist, a style of art, architecture, or the like.
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They have oddly expansive vocabularies and eminently quotable catchphrases, one of which — “Be Excellent to Each Other” — was posted on the marquee on my local movie theater when the pandemic shut it down in March.
Instead, the teen wrote tens of thousands of articles in English with a put-on Scottish accent, ignoring actual Scots grammar and vocabulary.
You speak in the voice and register that belongs to your old self—well-enunciated, resonant, its statements infiltrated by a formal, lawyerly vocabulary.
You know, so much of learning vocabulary is just word-definition, word-definition, word-definition.
The slightly modified version of Gödel’s scheme presented by Ernest Nagel and James Newman in their 1958 book, Gödel’s Proof, begins with 12 elementary symbols that serve as the vocabulary for expressing a set of basic axioms.
My Arabic is limited to a vocabulary of my favorite foods, such as “I love chicken and rice.”
In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary.
Here, the vocabulary of fast food for many young Brazilians is temaki (hand rolls) instead of burgers and fries.
Without the freedom to act on moral values, there is not even a vocabulary for public virtue.
Off camera, Rooney was growing up fast, ditching school and developing an impressive vocabulary of curse words.
I hope you are able to bear the brunt of the battle, for my will scarcely carry me through ten words.