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Idiom

An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized as formulaic language, an idiomatic expression's meaning is different from the literal meanings of each word inside it.

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Idiom

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples144
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

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Idiom

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related to Bibliography · 89
Idiom → An, Anat, Applied Behavior Analysis, Benjamin, Blackwell, Blackwell Publishers, Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Child Language, Children, Classroom, Classwide Peer Tutoring, Cognitive Linguistics, Communication Disorders, Communication Disorders Quarterly, Construction Grammar, Constructions, Crystal, Culicover
related to Translation · 11
Idiom → Another, English, For, French, Italian, Much, Polish, Some, The English, This, Transparency
related to Compositionality · 8
Idiom → Arriving, For, Fred, In, That, The, This, What
related to External links · 7
Idiom → English, French, Online, Online English, Portuguese, Spanish, The Idioms
related to Mobility · 7
Idiom → By, Idioms, Many, Mobile, Semantically, This, Whereas
related to Non-compositionality · 7
Idiom → Construction Grammar, For, How, One, The, This, What
related to Derivations · 3
Idiom → For, Many, Other
see also · 2
Idiom → Catena, ChengyuClichéCollocationComprehension
is a · 1
Idiom → phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning

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Important terminology

idioms meaning language idiomatic english words literal linguistics example doi syntax languages catena phrase analysis syntactic 10 compositionality verb means

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Idiomis aphrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning0.90text
passivizationinstance ofothers can undergo syntactic modifications0.80text
raising constructionsinstance ofothers can undergo syntactic modifications0.80text
and cleftinginstance ofothers can undergo syntactic modifications0.80text
demonstrating separable constituencies within the idiominstance ofothers can undergo syntactic modifications0.80text
jump on the bandwagoninstance ofExpressions0.80text
pull stringsinstance ofExpressions0.80text
and draw the line all represent their meaning independently in their verbsinstance ofExpressions0.80text
objectsinstance ofExpressions0.80text
making them compositionalinstance ofExpressions0.80text
Idiomrelated to BibliographyBenjamin0.60section
Idiomrelated to BibliographyEbbels0.60section

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