词汇 | ghost-word |
释义 | ghost word noun[ C ] publishing specializeduk /ˈɡəʊst ˌwɜːd/ us /ˈɡoʊst ˌwɝːd/ a word in a dictionary or another list of words that is not a real word and is usually there because of a mistake: (字典或词汇表中通常因为错误而出现的)幽灵字,幽灵词 "Abacot" is a ghost word that arose through a series of misreadings. "Abacot" 是由于一系列误读而产生的一个幽灵词。 There are scores of ghost words in dictionaries. Wherever words are arranged in lists, ghost words may occasionally appear. Ghost words may be misprints or mispronunciations. Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary abbreviated form accommodation alphabetic Anglicism antonym antonymous buzzword cognate coinage homonymic homonymy homophonic homophony hypernym productively receptive receptively referent superordinate vocab Examples of ghost wordghost word If that story is true, then the name is a material example of a ghostword. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The latter is a ghostword, escalated to a level of meta-category through historical accident and the inertia of intellectual prescription. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Translating "kui" as walrus exemplifies a ghostword. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also coined the term ghostword and was a leading expert in this treacherous and difficult subject. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In 1940, bound books began appearing without the ghostword but with a new abbreviation (although inspection of printed copies well into the 1940s show dord still present). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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