"linguistic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As a result, "light" (and "lite"), which had appeared on everything from yogurt to fudge, became the linguistic equivalent of a nonperson.
- Still, I have to confess that the use of "ax" for "ask" has always been, for me, the linguistic equivalent of fingernails' scraping down a blackboard.
- The Remainder is the linguistic equivalent of the Freudian unconscious and, like the unconscious, it is not interested in rules.
- More often, it stops the action in order to frame a character's inner life; it becomes the linguistic equivalent of a long, loving close-up.
- Forgive the Tofflers their diction, which sometimes reads like the linguistic equivalent of a shag rug.
- Airline English has, in a way, become the linguistic equivalent of the worldwide nonverbal graphic system that conveys such meanings as "ladies' room," "no parking," "first aid," and "information."
- Afterwards, using the best language tools available, the semantic and linguistic equivalents were translated into as readable a text as possible.
- If that creature was telling the truth he would probably have been attaching the nearest linguistic equivalents to a totally new phenomenon.
- "It's the linguistic equivalent of keeping a level head in the face of transactions that, if true, are just horrible," he said.
- He had been assigned to work out a linguistic equivalent to the language, using phonetics supplied by Mwahu.
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