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UK
/ˈɪdɪəm/
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[ US /ˈɪdiəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɪdiəm/ ]
NOUN
- a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
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the style of a particular artist or school or movement
an imaginative orchestral idiom -
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
he has a strong German accent
the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy - an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
How To Use idiom In A Sentence
- Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
- Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- There are southern and northern dialects, each having three regional idioms.
- But "LeAnn Rimes," the 17-year-old star's new CD of country classics, may be uniquely bizarre: not because it's unidiomatic, but because it's so emotionally empty. An Abc Of Country Song Covers
- Encerrei a direcção de turma com chave de ouro como sempre, modéstia à parte, pois o cinismo aliado ao shift+insert fazem maravilhas e durante uns dias nem quero sequer pensar em eduquês ou outro idioma semelhante. Encerrado
- Allegorical Saying ( Xiehouyu ) is an idiom that is widely used, popular, jocular and vivid sentence.
- You might have noticed by now that the keywords Mr. McWhorter has chosen to mark "language-ness" spell out the word "idiom"—which is apt, in that idioms are the parts of language that are the most ingrown, disheveled, intricate, oral and mixed. Strange and Twisted Tongues
- My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level.
- Es una pregunta clara y directa que para cualquier persona letrada del mundo, en cualquier idioma, entiende que lo que esta pregunta hace es indagar si se instala o no otra urna, una cuarta, para decidir si se convoca o no a una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente. The Volokh Conspiracy » CRS on the Honduras “Coup”:
