- synonyms - Difference between terminology and nomenclature? - English . . .
There isn't any difference in meaning between the two example sentences but the two words have some different uses, for example, nomenclature can also refer to a single term or name and terminology can also mean 'nomenclature as a field of study'
- Why do they call it a movement in music? Is this a metaphor?
11 I can't understand this In symphony you hear the word "movement" to refer to independent sections But it seems that it's not really that relevant Movement almost everywhere has something to do with motion Is this nomenclature a kind of metaphor for something in music, like moving from one section to another?
- Why meth-, eth-, prop-, when there is uni-,di-,tri-?
The IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry uses the numerical prefixes derived from Greek, except for the prefix for 9 (as mentioned) and the prefixes from 1 to 4 (meth-, eth-, prop-, and but-), which are not derived from words for numbers
- etymology - What is the origin of the counting prefixes: uni-, bi- di . . .
You are correct, they are from Latin and Greek, we have simply inherited terms from both There is a good reference for Latin and Greek roots over at Wikipedia: Uni meaning one: un-, uni- one language of origin: Latin etymology: unus, unius examples: unary, union Bi Di meaning two: bi- two language of origin: Latin etymology: bis, "twice"; bini, "in twos" examples: binoculars, bigamy, biscotti
- differences vernacular vs. colloquial - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What is the difference between the words vernacular and colloquial? Is vernacular closer to jargon? A quick search reveals that colloquial refers to informal spoken language while vernacular refer
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The OED definition of dichotomy, as it relates to descriptive language, is given in two parts, below (There are other specific senses of the word which relate to moon phases, and to botany zoology) However I do not believe it to be a word which demands precisely specific usage, and saying something is dichotomous, is a convenient way of pointing out that something divides into two parts, or
- Why does binomial nomenclature seem to break case rules?
According to the Wiki page for binomial nomenclature, we are supposed to capitalize the first word when naming species regardless of where it occurs in the sentence To me, this seem very incongruous
- vocabulary - Difference between lexicon and dictionary - English . . .
A lexicon is a list of words that belong to a particular language Sometimes, lexicon is used as another word for thesaurus (see below) A dictionary is a list of words and phrases that are (or were) in common usage, together with their definitions - so a dictionary is different from a lexicon because a lexicon is a simple list and doesn't define the words A thesaurus is a dictionary of
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