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adjective

semantic

of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning

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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