(n.) The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is dangerous, to pinch an ugly word from trade union lexicography, for its "automaticity", the almost involuntary expectation that university is the right option simply because it's available.
Paradigmatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Paradigmatical
(n.) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kind of president, like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt, who ushers in a paradigmatic shift in American politics or society, or both.
(2) The proportion of paradigmatic responses varied with the grammatical class of the stimulus word and with the vocabulary level of the subject, but not with age.
(3) The Medical Directive delineates four paradigmatic scenarios, defined by prognosis and disability of incompetent patients.
(4) It is argued that natural selection was for Darwin a paradigmatic case of a natural law of change -- an exemplar of what Ghiselin (1969) has called selective retention laws.
(5) The authors present paradigmatic clinical cases in order to demonstrate the different phonatory capabilities achieved by patients who had undergone either cordectomy or cordectomy extended to the ventricle and false vocal cords.
(6) Regarding the onset near that age period of capacity to use and comprehend the relational nature of opposition, supporting evidence derives from experimental data on the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift.
(7) It is proposed that that the dual-track theorem generally and the Siamese-twin configuration (with the Moebius-strip twist) specifically offer a unique and useful paradigmatic perspective that allows us to organize and integrate the characteristics and functions of the brain-mind continuum.
(8) It is recognized that the relationship between the referring pediatric nephrologist and the transplant physician is paradigmatic of the association that develops between a general practitioner and a specialist.
(9) The SKE is taken to be paradigmatic for how the visual system perceives depth when observing small object rotations that occur in everyday situations.
(10) The interaction between helper T cells and B cells, leading to the production of antibody to thymus-dependent antigens, was the first cell interaction clearly defined in the immune system; it remains both paradigmatic and controversial.
(11) Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite is probably paradigmatic: "I somehow forgave Bowie for the Placebo collaboration.
(12) The second way of analyzing semantic components of English pain involved a grammatical analysis of paradigmatic sentences which realize pain descriptions.
(13) In addition to normal values, changes in subjects suffering from thalassemia are used as a paradigmatic example of structural and morphological erythrocytic changes without other associated diseases.
(14) In three paradigmatical cases the problem of the diagnosis "atypical face pain" is discussed.
(15) The interrelated units were more frequently lexical than propositional, with more paradigmatic than syntagmatic relationships in report pairs from both sequences of awakenings.
(16) It is argued that the validity of the questionnaire is not established in the literature and that paradigmatic and conceptual ambiguity militate against a clear understanding of that literature.
(17) Proponents of rational suicide have consistently offered the terminally ill cancer patient in intractable pain as the paradigmatic case on which their position rests.
(18) Detailed studies have been pursued for paradigmatic heme proteins, including myoglobin, hemoglobin, cytochrome c, horseradish peroxidase, and cytochrome oxidase.
(19) Cycles are found which are both slower and faster than the paradigmatic 90 min ultradian rhythm.
(20) The authors discuss the physiopathological aspect of the case which is a paradigmatic example of the problems related to dual-chamber pacing.