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sematic

[ si-mat-ik ]

adjective

Biology.
  1. serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.


sematic

/ ɪˈæɪ /

adjective

  1. (of the conspicuous coloration of certain animals) acting as a warning, esp to potential predators
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sematic1

1885–90; < Greek ŧ- (stem of ê ) sign + -ic
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sematic1

C19: from Greek ŧ a sign
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Example Sentences

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He is also demonstrating sematic aphasias: “steak mountain or steak hill,” instead of “Snake mountain.”

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Trump swore a presidential oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution, but the text of the 14th Amendment says it applies to those who have sworn oaths to “support” the Constitution, Blue pointed out the sematic difference in an Oct.

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The system functioned through the use of tags, identifiers embedded in each word to ensure appropriate syntactical and sematic applications, that worked in conjunction with templates that would properly place the words in a sentence.

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Sematic, sē-mat′ik, adj. significant: indicative, as of danger: ominous.—n.

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It will be found that in many cases the argument here made use of applies equally to the origin of cryptic and sematic colours.

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