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syntax

noun as in arrangement

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When it comes to metadata, you need to make sure that the syntax is exact.

As I learned, many language researchers dispute that Koko and other gorillas actually learned sign language, arguing that they didn’t learn its syntax and had instead just mastered a few modified American Sign Language signs.

In many cases, the task a model is trained on does not force it to care about word order or syntax in general.

Tree shaking doesn’t always work well with older libraries due to the moving goalposts of keeping up with modern syntax and coding patterns.

Personally I’ve been doing a lot of work on the relationship between syntax and sociolinguistics.

The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing.

Butler's syntax sometimes gets in the way of understanding what she's asserting as fact.

From the syntax, it's a separate item, as if the requirement for the loyalty oath is law.

Syntax aside, the real consideration is the degree to which Romney can afford to alienate Hispanic Americans.

If you did learn to read it, you would discover the alienness of the syntax and structure.

From these shapeless rudiments we have, it is true, an immense distance to travel before we arrive at syntax.

As between Provençal and French this comparison would be between words, rather than in syntax.

His is ill syntax with heaven; and by unfeared he means unafraid: Words of a quite contrary signification.

It might have invented fresh inflections, and shaped its own syntax.

For the same feature in syntax see the division of simple sentences on p. 252.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to syntax, such as: order, pattern, structure, and system.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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