semantics
/sɪˈmæntɪks/plural noun
usu. treated as sing.
1- the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them, such as synonymy and antonymy.语义学。
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- the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text语义：
such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff.
像这类对语义问题的争论可能显得无足轻重。
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