| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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| apodeme | (noun) ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles | - |
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| categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| extreme | (noun) the furthest or highest degree of something | - |
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| (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme point, extremum |
| grapheme | (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, graph, graphic symbol |
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| heme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, protoheme |
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| lexeme | (noun) a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go' | - |
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| meme | (noun) a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation) | - |
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| monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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| monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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| morpheme | (noun) minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units | - |
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| morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
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| phoneme | (noun) (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language | - |
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| protoheme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, heme |
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| raceme | (noun) usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first | - |
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| scheme | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: strategy |
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| (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | Synonyms: schema |
| (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: outline, schema |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, dodging |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: system |
| syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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| theme | (noun) a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work | Synonyms: motif |
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| (noun) the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | Synonyms: subject, topic |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, report |
| (noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: idea, melodic theme, musical theme |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, stem |
| trireme | (noun) ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side | - |
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