(a.) Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
(n.) A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few years back, a survey of 3,000 11-year-olds revealed that nine out of 10 parents swear in front of their children, and the average kid heard six different expletives per week (whoever said profanity was bad for your vocabulary?).
(2) Tories warned last night of a plot to destabilise one of David Cameron's most trusted advisers, after details of an expletive-fuelled row with train staff which led to an £80 fine for Steve Hilton, the strategy director, were leaked to Channel 4 News.
(3) This from the Wall Street Journal : As they lined up for a team photo at Incheon, Seoul’s main international airport, the players were showered with “yeot,” a traditional candy that is also a common synonym for a Korean expletive.
(4) But you saw the spirit in the team tonight, we kept fighting to the end.” For Leicester it was another chastening evening and one that ended with Nigel Pearson embroiled in an ugly row, in which expletives were exchanged, with a fan.
(5) On Thursday the FA disclosed the full extent of Ince's actions as it revealed he physically assaulted the fourth official Mark Pottage while using a series of expletives.
(6) The players have said to me: ‘We don’t want any Bertie Big,’” Walsh said, leaving out the expletive.
(7) One person told Starmer the decision not to prosecute was a "fucking disgrace", sources said, and other expletives were used.
(8) F1: Max Verstappen calls Toro Rosso strategy a ‘joke’ in expletive-laden tirade Read more “The team is in good shape, we know we can up our game and put pressure on these guys.
(9) One of Rajaratnam's co-accused, fund manager Danielle Chiesi, tells the government's informant on one call that "you put me in jail if you talk", adding that she will be like "Martha [expletive] Stewart".
(10) Meanwhile in the American League... Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Benches clear in Detroit as Martinez and Balfour fling expletives but no punches thrown.
(11) It was clear that McGregor’s barbs were getting at Diaz, who grew increasingly flustered and struggled to muster replies that went beyond a barrage of expletives.
(12) And there will still be a mixture of homegrown material and features glommed from Wired's American edition, alongside an eclectic slate of contributors that includes the distinguished (Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield) and the rabble-rousing (Warren Ellis, the expletive-addicted comic book writer).
(13) Whereas an American, for example, has a little blow-hole on the top of their head from which they can release their irritation in an expletive-laced explosion, a Briton has no such release.
(14) Players that he knows to express one view in private, usually strident and expletive-laden, switch to bland when the camera rolls.
(15) A former UK cabinet minister has said he regrets losing his temper, after being recorded launching an expletive-ridden tirade at a London taxi driver following a visit to Buckingham Palace with his partner, who had just been awarded a CBE.
(16) Jeremy Corbyn’s Twitter account appeared to have been hijacked on Sunday night when a series of expletive-laden tweets were posted.
(17) The London mayor, Boris Johnson, has marked the last week of election campaigning with an expletive-laden tirade, accusing a senior BBC journalist of talking "fucking bollocks" on a lunchtime TV bulletin.
(18) Meryl Streep won for dramatic actress as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, her eighth win at the Globes – and surpised the audience with a string of expletives in her acceptance speech when she fumbled for her spectacles.
(19) Sometimes, his movement was not sharp enough and the expletives flowed in his direction and on other occasions, his touch or decision-making was not up to scratch.
(20) Instead, Cissé was left unattended to glance into the corner and you could almost hear the offers coming in for McClaren, who had given his players an expletive-filled rebuke after last week’s insipid defeat to Leicester , to pen a study on man-management.
Syntactic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Syntactical
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude from these six studies that: (a) BN presents a counter-example to the claim that non-fluent patients have particular difficulty with those aspects of morphology which have a syntactic function; (b) BN processes both derived and inflected words by mapping the sensory input onto the entire full-form of a complex word, but the semantic and syntactic content of the stem alone is accessed and integrated into the context.
(2) Syntactical structure of spontaneous speech was typically reduced to short, simple sentence construction.
(3) In regard to hemispheric specialization in interpreting students, no significant asymmetries were revealed in the recognition of semantic and syntactic errors.
(4) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(5) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(6) In addition to words drawn from the relevant lexical domains, nonsense words and words from inappropriate syntactic categories also were presented to the patients.
(7) A statistical count of the syntactic forms used in the written language sample is provided at the end of the analysis.
(8) Maybe that's why it saddens me so much to say that with every passing generation, the original syntactical structure of a language diminishes further.
(9) The second notes the differences in the involvement of semantic versus syntactic information in the tasks used in these studies.
(10) Both patients were impaired in the use of more complex syntactic structures and one, who in addition had severe generalized impairment in frontal lobe function, also had impaired judgement regarding the use and placement of functors.
(11) Ten sentences with complex syntactic structures were elicited, both orally and in writing (e.g., "Who do you think eats fries?"
(12) The purpose of the present study is to explore both the effects of age and the semantic and syntactic structures of reading materials on the omission rate of "de", the most frequently used character in Mandarin.
(13) This study assessed whether the comprehension of specific lexical items (a semantic judgment) and reversible passive sentences (a syntactic judgment) would be facilitated by preceding them with either linguistic or extralinguistic context.
(14) Results indicated that slowing facilitated language comprehension significantly only in the syntactic condition.
(15) Recent studies of aphasia and Parkinson's disease show that functional syntactic ability involves neural structures that also are involved in speech motor control and nonlinguistic cognition.
(16) There have been several attempts in recent years to include objective measures of syntactic complexity as part of an overall language assessment program.
(17) Stimuli that were syntactically structured and contained a sentencelike rhythm were spoken with shorter durations than nonsyntactic stimuli with sentential rhythm but only by 8-year-olds and adults.
(18) We found that listeners follow an answer obviousness rule, utilize their knowledge of objects and the actions they allow as context for sentence interpretation, and do sometimes evaluate the syntactically direct reading of a sentence before arriving at an indirect speech act.
(19) Measures administered included the Western Aphasia Battery, Test for Syntactic Complexity, and Chomsky Test of Syntax.
(20) Results were that parents' signed mean lengths of utterance (MLUs) were lower than those of their children although the majority of their sign utterances were syntactically intact.