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Expression (other)
Expression may refer to: Linguistics * Expression (linguistics), a word, phrase, or sentence * Expression (mathematics), Symbolic description of a mathematical object * Fixed expression, a form of words with a specific meaning * Idiom, a type of fixed expression * Metaphor#Common types, Metaphorical expression, a particular word, phrase, or form of words that has a different meaning than its literal form * Expression (sign language), the expressions and postures of the face and body that contribute to the formation of words when signing Symbolic expression * Expression (architecture), implies a clear and authentic displaying of the character or personality of an individual person * Expression (mathematics), a symbolic description of a mathematical object * Expression (computer science), an instruction to execute something that will return a value * Regular expression, a means of matching strings of text in computing * Expression marks, in music, notating the musical Dynamics (mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expression (linguistics)
In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a constituent. There is a difference between the common use of the term ''phrase'' and its technical use in linguistics. In common usage, a phrase is usually a group of words with some special idiomatic meaning or other significance, such as " all rights reserved", " economical with the truth", " kick the bucket", and the like. It may be a euphemism, a saying or proverb, a fixed expression, a figure of speech, etc.. In linguistics, these are known as phrasemes. In theories of syntax, a phrase is any group of words, or sometimes a single word, which plays a particular role wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
