English-Spanish translations for semantics

• semántica
  El primero es de naturaleza semántica. The first is a matter of semantics.
  Nuestro problema, por tanto, es de índole semántica. Our problem is therefore one of semantics.
  Hablar en estos términos no es una simple cuestión semántica, se trata de una opción filosófica por la que apostamos. Stating it in these terms is not just semantics: it is a philosophical choice that we are making.

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