morpheme
Example Sentences
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Important, too, was the morpheme a-, which referred to the mouth and, more broadly, to origins.
From Scientific American
It became apparent that someone needed to build a curriculum and teaching program around the morphemes, including a color-coded system for grouping them, which Mr. Maracle did through trial and error.
From New York Times
On the pretext of performing usability testing for Sparkle Dungeon 5, she is taught “power morphemes” — ways to condense layers of meaning into abstract sounds that can bend real-world physics, shattering glass and folding space-time.
From New York Times
She draws pictures illustrating each mouth morpheme — the lip and tongue postures that act as adjectives and adverbs.
From New York Times
I was imitating something linguistically unique to sign language called “mouth morphemes” — moving your tongue rapidly to demonstrate distance or swelling your cheeks like balloons to show size.
From New York Times
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