| 释义 |
noun siːm another term for semanteme Example sentencesExamples - The seme of indebtedness attaches itself definitively to Peter in the board meeting where George is obliged to come to his defence.
- Semic analysis is an operation readers perform unconsciously when they identify in a text verbal derivations from a key word's semantic features, the semes.
- As we know, any word corresponds to a sememe, a set of distinctive semantic features, the semes, whose relationships determine that word's meaning (for example, the semes human and female are components of the sememe woman).
- Bodies in motion, or why semes are more interesting than memes.
OriginMid 19th century: from Greek sēma 'sign'. adjectiveˈsɛmeɪˈsɛmi Heraldry Covered with small bearings of indefinite number (e.g. stars, fleurs-de-lis) arranged all over the field. Example sentencesExamples - When the number of charges exceeds six, they produce the appearance of a pattern and the field thus covered is called semé (sowing) or said to be powdered.
- As a result the municipality received on 10 Apr 1986 a new Coat of Arms: blue with a semé of silver blocks and charged with a lion rampant armed red, surmontée a yellow crown of three leaves and two pearls.
OriginLate Middle English: French, literally 'sown', past participle of semer. |