Beifügung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apposition noun 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 noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
- qualifier noun One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in 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 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.
- noun The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- noun The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
- noun A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
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.