SYNTAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syntax mean? 

• SYNTAX (noun)
  The noun SYNTAX has 3 senses:

1. the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

2. a systematic orderly arrangement

3. studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

  Familiarity information: SYNTAX used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNTAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

phrase structure; sentence structure; syntax

Hypernyms ("syntax" is a kind of...):

structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Derivation:

syntactic; syntactical (of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax)

syntactician (a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A systematic orderly arrangement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("syntax" is a kind of...):

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("syntax" is a kind of...):

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syntax"):

generative grammar ((linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description)

Derivation:

syntactic; syntactical (of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax)

syntactician (a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax)

 Context examples 

URIs are defined in schemes defining a specific syntax and associated protocols.

(Document Version Uniform Resource Locator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Image encoded with a lossy compression transfer syntax.

(Lossy Compressed Image, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)