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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

  1. 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.
  2. noun The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  3. noun The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
  4. noun A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.

attribute — full definition

  1. noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
  2. noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
  3. verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.

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