word sense
Definition
Noun: The specific meaning or interpretation of a word within a particular context. A word can have multiple "word senses," each representing a distinct concept or usage.
Usage
The term "word sense" is used in linguistics, lexicography, and computational linguistics to discuss and disambiguate the different meanings a single word form can have. It refers to one of the possible conceptual meanings.
Examples
- In the sentence "The bank is by the river," the word sense for "bank" is "the land alongside a river."
- In the sentence "I need to go to the bank," the word sense for "bank" is "a financial institution."
- A dictionary entry for "light" will list several word senses, such as "illumination," "not heavy," and "pale in color."
Advanced Usage
- Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD): A major task in natural language processing where the goal is to computationally determine which word sense of a word is being used in a given context.
- Word Sense Induction: The automated process of identifying and categorizing the different word senses of a word from a corpus of text.
Variants and Related Words
- Sense (noun): Often used interchangeably with "word sense" in linguistic discussion.
- Lexical meaning: A closely related term referring to the meaning of a word.
- Polysemy: The property of a word having multiple related word senses (e.g., "foot" of a person, "foot" of a mountain).
- Homonymy: The property where different word senses are associated with the same word form but have unrelated origins (e.g., "bat" the animal and "bat" for sports).
Synonyms
- Meaning
- Definition
- Acceptation (a less common, more technical synonym)
Related Idioms and Phrases
- In the strict sense: Referring to the most precise or literal word sense.
- In the strict sense, a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
- In every sense of the word: Completely and in all possible meanings.
- He was a gentleman in every sense of the word.
Noun
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the accepted meaning of a word
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