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ˈsɪn tækssyn·tax

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Princeton's WordNet1.1 / 10 votes

  1. syntax, sentence structure, phrase structurenoun

    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

    Synonyms:
    sentence structure, phrase structure

  2. syntaxnoun

    a systematic orderly arrangement

    Synonyms:
    sentence structure, phrase structure

  3. syntaxnoun

    studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

    Synonyms:
    sentence structure, phrase structure

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PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "syntax":

    syntaxes, syntactical, syntactic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD1.8 / 4 votes

  1. SYNTAX

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  1. Berkeley Vax/Unix Assembler Reference Manual (1983):

    This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.

  2. Talmy Givón:

    Today's syntax is tomorrow's morphology

  3. John Simon:

    In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...

  4. Raymond Chandler:

    Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.


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