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How to sign: a unit of language that native speakers can identify
"words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning";
Categories: language unit, linguistic unit
Within this category: anagram, anaphor, antonym, back-formation, charade, classifier, cognate, content word, contraction, deictic, derivative, diminutive, dirty word, disyllable, form, four-letter word, function word, head, headword, heteronym, holonym, homonym, hypernym, hyponym, key word, loanblend, loanword, meronym, metonym, monosyllable, neologism, nonce word, oxytone, palindrome, paroxytone, partitive, polysemant, polysyllable, primitive, proparoxytone, quantifier, quantifier, reduplication, substantive, syncategorem, synonym, term, terminology, trisyllable, troponym, vocable, written word
How to sign: an exchange of views on some topic
"we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it";
Similiar / Same: give-and-take, discussion
Categories: language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication
Within this category: argument, conference, deliberation, negotiation, panel discussion, postmortem, public discussion
