Across
- 2. noun the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology)
- 6. noun a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; a particular complex anatomical part; the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; verb give a structure to
- 7. noun compliance with formal rules; a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies; a requirement of etiquette or custom
- 10. noun a word that can serve as the subject or object of a verb; a word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing
- 11. noun the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts; an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion
- 12. noun a detail that is considered insignificant
- 14. noun dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence; an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence; a short musical passage; an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up; verb divide, combine, or mark into phrases; put into words or an expression
- 15. noun (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence; a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
- 17. adj. relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; noun the word class that qualifies nouns; a word that expresses an attribute of something
- 20. noun a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
Down
- 1. noun a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word; (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)
- 3. adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction; forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; urgently needed; absolutely necessary; of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- 4. noun the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect; an architectural product or work; the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
- 5. noun an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences; (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac; the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction; something that joins or connects; the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; the state of being joined together
- 8. noun the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses; a word that modifies something other than a noun
- 9. noun a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; verb pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
- 13. noun something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; an essay (especially one written as an assignment); a mixture of ingredients; the act of creating written works; musical creation; the way in which someone or something is composed; art and technique of printing with movable type; a musical work that has been created
- 16. noun a word that serves as the predicate of a sentence; a content word that denotes an action or a state
- 18. noun a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts; verb make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed
- 19. adj. arranged in a line; in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child