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  • 1Filler text — A specimen sheet of typefaces and languages, by William Caslon I, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. It uses as filler text Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Filler text (also Placeholder text or Dummy text) is text… …

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  • 2filler — I. noun Date: 15th century one that fills: as a. a substance added to a product (as to increase bulk, weight, viscosity, opacity, or strength) b. a composition used to fill the pores and grain especially of a wood surface before painting or… …

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  • 3filler — Synonyms and related words: IC analysis, appositive, attribute, attributive, bidet, bush, bushing, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, complement, construction modifier, cutting, deep structure, direct object, doubling, doublure, draft… …

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  • 4Slot-Filler-Korrelation — Die Tagmemik ist eine sprachwissenschaftliche Richtung innerhalb des amerikanischen Strukturalismus. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Theorie 2 Zitate 3 Siehe auch 4 Literatur 5 Weblinks …

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  • 5Louis Filler — (August 27, 1911 ndash; December 22, 1998), Dubossary ( Odessa ) born, Philadelphia reared, Columbia trained scholar, bibliographer, and anthologist, who taught American civilization at Antioch College and supported historical essays on… …

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  • 6Wh-movement — (or wh fronting or wh extraction) is a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh words ) show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh words appear at the… …

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  • 7Spanish profanity — Joder redirects here. For the community in Nebraska, see Joder, Nebraska. This article is a summary of Spanish profanity, referred to in the Spanish language as lenguaje soez (low language), maldiciones (curse words), malas palabras (bad words),… …

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  • 8Romanian grammar — Romanian (technically called Daco Romanian ) shares practically the same grammar and most of the vocabulary and phonological processes with the other three surviving Eastern Romance languages: Aromanian, Megleno Romanian, and Istro Romanian.As a… …

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  • 9Cigar — For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). From the Spanish cigarro cigar , which was perhaps derived from the Spanish cigarra cicada (OED) …

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  • 10linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …

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