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infix

[in-fiks, in-fiks, in-fiks] / ɪnˈfɪks, ˈɪnˌfɪks, ˈɪnˌfɪks /


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But CPL uses infix notation; I’d have to get all the operator precedence right to generate Lisp code with the parens in the right place.

From Scientific American Aug. 23, 2011

Consider that innumerable race of insects, which either are bred on the body of each animal, or, flying about, infix their stings in him.

From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

I have a friend who loves me as his life, and in whose breast I should infix a mortal sting if I ungratefully left him.

From Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Perhaps I will throw Yerreeningga booramboonda If a negative meaning be required, it is effected by means of an infix, mooga, between the verb-stem and the abbreviated pronoun.

From The Gundungurra Language by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews

It is more than to infuse, it is to infix it in such a manner as that it never may wear out.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo

The formative parts are affixes; and affixes may be divided into three classes, prefixes, suffixes, and infixes.

From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by John Wesley Powell

It gives them more force and influence; makes them appear of greater importance; infixes them in the mind; and renders them the governing principles of all our actions.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

To a large extent the pronouns are incorporated in the verbs as prefixes, infixes, or suffixes.

From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by John Wesley Powell

Between these prefixes and the noun or verb, pronominal infixes are introduced, by which possession is denoted in the case of a noun, and the subject in that of a verb.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

And afterwards were erected not far from that place the arms of England engraven in lead, and infixed upon a pillar of wood.

From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes

Thus, an infixed -um- is characteristic of many intransitive verbs with personal pronominal suffixes, e.g., sad- “to wait,” sumid-ak “I wait”; kineg “silent,” kuminek-ak “I am silent.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

Thus, an infixed -in- conveys the idea of the product of an accomplished action, e.g., kayu “wood,” kinayu “gathered wood.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

The past tense is frequently indicated by an infixed -in-; if there is already an infixed -um-, the two elements combine to -in-m-, e.g., kinminek-ak “I am silent.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

His praises were so many adder's stings infixed in my vulnerable breast.

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

An infixing stillness, now thrust a long rivet through the night, and fast nailed it to that side of the world.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Languages in India, families of, 70. —— isolating, combinatory, and inflectional, 79. —— suffixing, prefixing, affixing, and infixing, 85.

From Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV Essays chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster




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