COMBINING FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does combining form mean? 

• COMBINING FORM (noun)
  The noun COMBINING FORM has 1 sense:

1. a bound form used only in compounds

  Familiarity information: COMBINING FORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMBINING FORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bound form used only in compounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

'hemato-' is a combining form in words like 'hematology'

Hypernyms ("combining form" is a kind of...):

bound form; bound morpheme (a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns)

Domain member usage:

valued ((usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind)

storeyed; storied (having stories as indicated)

hipped (having hips; or having hips as specified (usually in combination))

in-chief (indicating the head of a staff)

mini (used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee)

midi (used of women's clothing having a hemline at mid-calf)

maxi (used of women's clothing having a hemline at the ankle)

neo ((used as a combining form) recent or new)

minded ((used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified)

roofed (covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination))

regent (acting or functioning as a regent or ruler)

throated (having a throat as specified)

size ((used in combination) sized)

seeded (having seeds as specified)

tipped (having a tip; or having a tip as specified (used in combination))

radio (indicating radiation or radioactivity)

volumed ((often used in combination) consisting of or having a given number or kind of volumes)

full; fully; to the full (to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; ('full' in this sense is used as a combining form))

good; well ((often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard ('good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for 'well'))

badly; ill; poorly (('ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well)

visaged (having a face or visage as specified)

ply ((usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood)

pounder ((used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds)

footer ((used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet)

yarder ((used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards)

miler ((used only in combinations) the length of something in miles)

smitten; stricken; struck ((used in combination) affected by something overwhelming)

columned (having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form))

billed (having a beak or bill as specified)

bedded (having a bed or beds as specified)

decker ((often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels)

boned (having bones as specified)

proto (indicating the first or earliest or original)

odd (an indefinite quantity more than that specified)

scented ((used in combination) having the odor of)

friendly (easy to understand or use)

unfriendly (not easy to understand or use)

filled ((usually followed by 'with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with)

pseudo ((often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of)