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neologism

A new word or new meaning for an existing word. The high-tech field routinely creates new meanings for words. Before 1980, there was no doubt that a "mouse" referred only to a furry rodent.
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Approximately 85 employees are expected to join Neology upon completion of the sale.
All words suggested by Ivanov's dictionary are phonologically perfect, and most of them have antecedents either in the thousands years old sociocultural context of the Mari language, or in the neology of the early 20th century.
Teaching Christian integration in psychology and counseling: Current status and future directions.Journal of Psychology and neology, 40(2), 155-159.
As for the type 2.3., neology is working, through creating new terms, by adopting terms of source language or by creating new ones, based on lexical and morphological paradigms already existing in the target language.
Within the concept of meaning neology, the signifier of a neologism listed in Romanian dictionaries gets enriched with a meaning pertaining to the specialized cosmetic field, so that the Anglicisms already assimilated into Romanian borrow other meanings of the polysemantic English etymon..
Primarily based on the examples from this discourse this article attempts to explore how Roy simultaneously subverts and appropriates English language through the linguistic and textual strategies which include neology transliteration un-translated words glossing code switching and translation equivalents.
Wissbrun, Melt neology and its Role in Plastics Processing, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (1990).
Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School of neology at Chicago
Table 3 Average expenditure growth rates by major discascs categories during years 2000-2010 (in %, not adjusted for inflation) Category 09 02 11 14 Urinary ICD Circulatory neology Digestive and system system reproductive system Growth 9.6 11.2 3.9 6.9 rate Category 13 10 06 ICD Skeletal, Respiratory nervous muscular system system system Growth 6.4 7.1 12.5 rate Discussion
(34) El analisis pormenorizado de este ejemplo puede verse desarrollado en nuestro articulo "Neology and Terminological Dependency" (Terminology, 18:1, 2012, 59-85).
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