Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in American Sign Language (ASL). The largest collection online.
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: a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
"he forgot the password";
Similiar / Same: password, countersign, watchword, parole
Categories: arcanum, positive identification, secret
