English-Polish translations for semantics

• semantyka
  Takie ujęcie sprawy to nie tylko semantyka: to wybór filozoficzny, jakiego dokonujemy. Stating it in these terms is not just semantics: it is a philosophical choice that we are making.
  Opóźnienia, wahania i semantyka odnośnie do skali interwencji pozwoliły reżimowi na osłabienie powstania obywatelskiego. The delays, wavering and semantics about the scale of intervention have allowed the regime to weaken the citizen's uprising.

Definition of semantics

• A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
• The study of the relationship between words and their meanings
• The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage
• The meaning of computer language constructs, in contrast to their form or syntax

Examples

• Semantics is a foundation of lexicography
• The semantics of the terms used are debatable
• The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself
• file sharing and locking semantics

Related words

• semantic
• semantically
• polysemantic
• semanticist
• semantician
• phonosemantics
• phonosemantic
• semanticism
• asemanticity