"lexicalize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈlɛksɪkəlaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lexicalize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: lexicalizes [present, singular, third-person], lexicalizing [participle, present], lexicalized [participle, past], lexicalized [past], lexicalise [alternative]
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  2. (transitive) To accept a term into one's own vocabulary as a distinct lexical unit. Tags: transitive
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lexicalizable, lexicalizer, mislexicalize, nonlexicalized, relexicalize, unlexicalized Related terms: lexeme, lexicalisation, lexical item, lexicalization, lexical unit, lexicography, lexicology, lexicon, lexis Translations (to convert to a single lexical unit): lexicalitzar (Catalan), 词汇化 (Chinese Mandarin), lexikalizovat (Czech), leksikalisere (Danish), lexicaliser (French), lexikalisieren (German), lexikalizál (Hungarian), leksykalizować [imperfective] (Polish), zleksykalizować [perfective] (Polish), лексикализо́вывать (leksikalizóvyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), лексикализова́ть (leksikalizovátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), lexicalizar (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'to convert to a single lexical unit': 47 53

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lexicalizing",
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        "present"
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lexicalized",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "lexeme"
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    {
      "word": "lexicalisation"
    },
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      "word": "lexical item"
    },
    {
      "word": "lexicalization"
    },
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    },
    {
      "word": "lexicography"
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    {
      "word": "lexicology"
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    {
      "word": "lexicon"
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        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
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        "To become part of the vocabulary of a language as a single lexical unit with a distinct meaning."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "language",
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          "lexical unit",
          "lexical unit"
        ],
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        ]
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        "(intransitive, of a term) To become part of the vocabulary of a language as a single lexical unit with a distinct meaning."
      ],
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              24,
              34
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1975, Eric H. Lenneberg, Elizabeth Lenneberg, Foundations of Language Development: A Multidisciplinary Approach, volume 1, page 192:",
          "text": "In fact, the child will lexicalize one, two, or three elements of the semantic representation according to his lexicalization span.",
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        }
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        "To accept a term into one's own vocabulary as a distinct lexical unit."
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        "(transitive) To accept a term into one's own vocabulary as a distinct lexical unit."
      ],
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈlɛksɪkəlaɪz/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "lexicalitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "词汇化"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "lexikalizovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "leksikalisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "lexicaliser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "lexikalisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "lexikalizál"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "leksykalizować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zleksykalizować"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "leksikalizóvyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лексикализо́вывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "leksikalizovátʹ",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "лексикализова́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to convert to a single lexical unit",
      "word": "lexicalizar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lexicalize"
}

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