Beifügung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apposition noun (grammar) The placing of a noun or noun phrase next to another one to explain or rename it, with both having the same role in the sentence.
- attribute noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
- qualifier noun A person who earns the right to take part in something, especially the next round of a competition.
Senses
Beifügung is used for these senses in English:
- apposition (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
- attribute (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- qualifier (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
apposition — full definition
- noun (grammar) The placing of a noun or noun phrase next to another one to explain or rename it, with both having the same role in the sentence.
- noun (grammar) The link between two nouns or noun phrases used in this way.
- noun The state of lying next to each other rather than facing one another.
- noun The act of putting two things next to each other, or fitting them together.
attribute — full definition
- noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
- noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
- verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.
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