In a sentence
Six example sentences with semantic, each labelled with its topic.
The search engine ranks pages by semantic similarity, so a query about cars still returns articles that only say automobiles.
Technology
Translators argue over a semantic shade so small that only one Russian word carries what the English pair loses.
Literature
Their debate turned semantic once both sides agreed on the facts and quarreled only over what to call them.
Philosophy
The appeal turned on a semantic point, whether a bicycle counts as a vehicle under the park bylaw.
Law
Semantic memory holds what you know, like the capital of France, while episodic memory holds what happened to you.
Psychology
Critics called the renaming of the levy a semantic trick, since the amount taken from each paycheck never changed.
Politics
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Found in these word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Computer Science Word ListAuthoritative
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains semantic. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.