"univocal" meaning in English

See univocal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /juːnɪˈvəʊkəl/ [UK], /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/ [UK], /juːnɪˈvoʊkəl/ [US], /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-univocal.wav
Etymology: From Late Latin ūnivocus + -al. By surface analysis, uni- + vocal. Etymology templates: {{der|en|LL.|ūnivocus}} Late Latin ūnivocus, {{af|en|-al}} -al, {{surf|en|uni-|vocal}} By surface analysis, uni- + vocal Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} univocal (not comparable)
  1. Having only one possible meaning. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (having only one possible meaning): definite Translations (having only one possible meaning): unívoc (Catalan), eenduidig (Dutch), yksiselitteinen (Finnish), univoque (French), sans équivoque (French), eindeutig (German), μονοσήμαντος (monosímantos) [masculine] (Greek), egyértelmű (Hungarian), aonchiallach (Irish), еднозначен (ednoznačen) [masculine] (Macedonian), unívoco (Portuguese), unívoco (Spanish), entydig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-adj-tMUjBmNq Disambiguation of 'having only one possible meaning': 79 10 4 6 0 Disambiguation of 'having only one possible meaning': 79 10 4 6 0
  2. Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-adj-XblpqDtO
  3. Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-adj-eo1fBL27
  4. Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-adj-6o42TsQF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with uni-, English terms suffixed with -al, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 3 33 46 6 3 5 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with uni-: 15 11 14 21 14 13 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 9 7 25 34 9 9 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 5 30 38 8 7 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 3 33 45 6 4 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 3 35 48 4 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 10 6 22 39 9 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 8 6 26 35 10 8 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 6 22 39 9 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 6 28 36 10 7 6 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 8 7 26 35 11 7 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 7 5 20 33 15 6 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 8 4 17 36 15 7 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 10 6 22 39 9 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 9 5 21 38 12 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 5 21 41 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 4 30 42 7 6 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 10 6 22 40 8 9 5
  5. Unequivocal; indubitable. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms (indubitable): undoubtable, self-evident
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-adj-dke16HUF Disambiguation of 'indubitable': 1 1 1 4 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: monosemous, unambiguous, unequivocal, explicit

Noun

IPA: /juːnɪˈvəʊkəl/ [UK], /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/ [UK], /juːnɪˈvoʊkəl/ [US], /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-univocal.wav Forms: univocals [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin ūnivocus + -al. By surface analysis, uni- + vocal. Etymology templates: {{der|en|LL.|ūnivocus}} Late Latin ūnivocus, {{af|en|-al}} -al, {{surf|en|uni-|vocal}} By surface analysis, uni- + vocal Head templates: {{en-noun}} univocal (plural univocals)
  1. A word having only one meaning.
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-noun-4BBXOXeE
  2. A document containing instances of only one vowel.
    Sense id: en-univocal-en-noun-poo5sNeB

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "ambiguous"
    },
    {
      "word": "equivocal"
    },
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      "word": "polysemic"
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          "ref": "1999, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 146:",
          "text": "There were, he argued, some words, such as ‘fat’ or ‘exhausted’, that could not apply to God, but if such terms as ‘being’, ‘goodness’ or ‘wisdom’ were not univocal of God and creatures, ‘one could not naturally have any concept of God – which is false.’",
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          "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
          "word": "sans équivoque"
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          "word": "eindeutig"
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          "_dis1": "79 10 4 6 0",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
          "word": "egyértelmű"
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          "_dis1": "79 10 4 6 0",
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          "roman": "ednoznačen",
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          "word": "еднозначен"
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          "_dis1": "79 10 4 6 0",
          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
          "word": "unívoco"
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          "_dis1": "79 10 4 6 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
          "word": "unívoco"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 10 4 6 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
          "word": "entydig"
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          "ref": "2000, Gail Scott, Robert Glück, Camille Roy, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative:",
          "text": "Eunoia is a univocal lipogram — an anomalous narrative, in which each vowel appears by itself in its own chapter, telling a story in its own voice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Brick, numbers 69-70, page 118:",
          "text": "I read through the dictionary five times to extract an extensive lexicon of univocal words containing only one of the five vowels.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement:",
          "text": "The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]",
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          "ref": "1657, Jeremy Taylor, Evelyn Memoirs, volume II, page 119:",
          "text": "But I am much pleased at the repetition of the divine favour to you in the like instances; that God hath given you another testimony of his love to your person, and care of your family ; it is an engagement to you of new degrees of duty, which you cannot but superadde to the former, because the principle is genuine and prolific, and all the emanations of grace are univocal and alike.",
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          "ref": "1890, Sir Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume I, London: George Bell and Sons, page 258:",
          "text": "It is not indeed impossible, that from the sperm of a cock, hen, or other animal, being once in putrescence, either from incubation or otherwise, some generation may ensue; not univocal and of the same species, but some imperfect or monstrous production […]",
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        "Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular."
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        {
          "ref": "1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:",
          "text": "There is no blessed soul goes to heaven but he makes a general joy in all the mansions where the saints do dwell, and in all the chapels where the angels sing ; and the joys of religion are not univocal, but productive of rare and accidental and preternatural pleasures ; for the music of holy hymns delights the ear and refreshes the spirit, and makes the very bones of the saints to rejoice.",
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          "_dis1": "1 1 1 4 93",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 146:",
          "text": "There were, he argued, some words, such as ‘fat’ or ‘exhausted’, that could not apply to God, but if such terms as ‘being’, ‘goodness’ or ‘wisdom’ were not univocal of God and creatures, ‘one could not naturally have any concept of God – which is false.’",
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      "glosses": [
        "Having only one possible meaning."
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Gail Scott, Robert Glück, Camille Roy, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative:",
          "text": "Eunoia is a univocal lipogram — an anomalous narrative, in which each vowel appears by itself in its own chapter, telling a story in its own voice.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Brick, numbers 69-70, page 118:",
          "text": "I read through the dictionary five times to extract an extensive lexicon of univocal words containing only one of the five vowels.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement:",
          "text": "The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]",
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        "Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic."
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        "Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music."
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          "ref": "1657, Jeremy Taylor, Evelyn Memoirs, volume II, page 119:",
          "text": "But I am much pleased at the repetition of the divine favour to you in the like instances; that God hath given you another testimony of his love to your person, and care of your family ; it is an engagement to you of new degrees of duty, which you cannot but superadde to the former, because the principle is genuine and prolific, and all the emanations of grace are univocal and alike.",
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          "ref": "1890, Sir Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume I, London: George Bell and Sons, page 258:",
          "text": "It is not indeed impossible, that from the sperm of a cock, hen, or other animal, being once in putrescence, either from incubation or otherwise, some generation may ensue; not univocal and of the same species, but some imperfect or monstrous production […]",
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        "Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular."
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          "ref": "1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:",
          "text": "There is no blessed soul goes to heaven but he makes a general joy in all the mansions where the saints do dwell, and in all the chapels where the angels sing ; and the joys of religion are not univocal, but productive of rare and accidental and preternatural pleasures ; for the music of holy hymns delights the ear and refreshes the spirit, and makes the very bones of the saints to rejoice.",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
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      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "yksiselitteinen"
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      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "eindeutig"
    },
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      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
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        "masculine"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "egyértelmű"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "aonchiallach"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ednoznačen",
      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "еднозначен"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "unívoco"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "unívoco"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having only one possible meaning",
      "word": "entydig"
    }
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}

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    "Terms with German translations",
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    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
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          "text": "The univocal is by no means the preserve of the nineteenth century. Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used.",
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