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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Measure word
Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered numeral classifiers, closely akin, but distinct from grammatical number.
Measure words are part of the grammar of most East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese, plus Bengali just to the west of this area, as well as many Indigenous languages of the Americas near the Pacific coast, including Classic Maya.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Measure_word   (933 words)

  
  Measure word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered numeral classifiers, closely akin to grammatical gender.
Measure words are part of the grammar of many Asian languages, including Bangla (Bengali), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, and Vietnamese.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Measure_word   (741 words)

  
 Measure word - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
In language, measure words are words that some languages use in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered a kind of classifier.
Some languages such as Ainu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai use measure words as the standard way of indicating the count of the number of items, rather than, as in Indo-European languages, allowing numbers to count a noun directly.
www.music.us /education/M/Measure-word.htm   (793 words)

  
 Korean language   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Korean is agglutinative in its word formation and SOV in its syntax.
Korean is often classified as being a separate language in a family of its own (a language isolate).
Modern Korean is written with spacess between words, a feature not found in the other CJK languages (Chinese and Japanese).
hallencyclopedia.com /Korean_language   (2485 words)

  
 Measure word -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Note that the preceding measure words are (The form of a word that is used to denote a singleton) singular in form.
Most measure words in English are more accurately called (An organization regarded as part of a larger social group) units of (The act or process of measuring) measurement.
In (A native or inhabitant of Japan) Japanese grammar, most nouns are effectively mass nouns, and measure words must be used with a number when counting them.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/measure_word.htm   (684 words)

  
 Korean language Article, Koreanlanguage Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Korean is the most widely used language in Korea, and is the officiallanguage of both South and North Korea.
Korean's seeming similarities to Chinese (of the Sino-Tibetanfamily), especially vocabulary and certain pronunciations, are superficial and not genetic.
Pronouns in Korean have their own set of polite equivalents: thus, jeo is the humble form ofna ("I"); jeoheui is the humble form of uri ("we"); anddangsin ("friend," but only used as a form of address and more polite than "chingu", the usual word for"friend") is the honorific form of neo ("you" (singular)).
www.anoca.org /korea/words/korean_language.html   (2181 words)

  
 Korean measure words
Like Japanese and Chinese, Korean uses special measure or counting words to enumerate objects.
In Korean, the term jang (장) is used to count sheets, or paper-like material in general.
There are two systems of numerals in Korean, Sino-Korean numbers and Native Korean numbers.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ko/korean_measure_words.html   (160 words)

  
 Korean language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Korean language   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The linguistic affiliations of Korean are unclear, but it may be distantly related to Japanese.
The alphabet was discouraged as ‘vulgar letters’ (onmun) and banned by the colonizing Japanese of the early 20th century.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Korean+language   (128 words)

  
 War Of Words: Propaganda
The UN forces and the North Koreans and Chinese alike dropped millions of pamphlets, letters and entreaties to each other's troops, in an attempt to influence the thoughts and motivations of their enemies.
The accompanying leaflet was aimed at North Korean and Chinese soldiers, with a cartoon depicting Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pushing a Chinese officer pushing a Korean soldier towards a battlefield named "Korea".
The words "Demand peace stop the war" were often used in North Korean/Chinese propaganda to imply that the war was unwanted by all soldiers.
www.awm.gov.au /korea/weapons/propaganda/propaganda.htm   (493 words)

  
 Self and Other
In other words, look at the number of people we know who are terrified of silence, and who have to have something going all the time, some noise streaming into their ears.
In other words, underneath the surface of the consciousness that you have and the individual role that you play and are identifying yourself with, you are the works.
So when we measure curves, we pretend as if they were a series of points, and the position of these points can be expressed in an arithmatical way, say by tracing a curve across a piece of finely calibrated graph paper.
www.deoxy.org /w_self.htm   (12891 words)

  
 yourDictionary.com • Library: Origin of Words II
Not all of these words were borrowed directly from Greek; some were borrowed from French who borrowed them from Greek.
The important point is that the meanings of these words are what they are because of the original meanings of the Greek roots in them.
Word borrowings for Yiddish are not widely used but they are common in the dialects around New York city.
www.yourdictionary.com /library/ling008_a.html   (1227 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Korean language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Korean language is spoken primarily and officially in Korea (South Korea and North Korea), also in the People's Republic of China (Yanbian).
Korean's seeming similarities to Chinese (of the Sino-Tibetan family), especially vocabulary and certain pronunciations, are superficial and not genetic.
Korean grammar is similar to that of the Japanese language.
www.ipedia.com /korean_language.html   (2044 words)

  
 Grammatical gender - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Words with the -lein and -chen ending (meaning smaller, younger) are neuter, thus the grammatical genders of Mädchen (girl) and Fräulein (young woman) are neuter.
Japanese and Chinese may also fall into this category: they have elaborate systems of measure words which classify nouns into types based on shape and function, but are only used with counting modifiers.
These languages have measure words: nouns are classified but the classes are shown only by counting modifiers, not by other adjectives or articles.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Grammatical_gender   (1898 words)

  
 Introduction to the Korean Edition
I was recently invited to write a new introduction to the Korean edition of Extreme Programming Installed.
Until you have worked directly with someone who understands the requirements, you'll not understand how valuable it is to have them there, instead of represented by their words on paper or in electronic form.
Measure your team performance in stories done per iteration, and pay attention to the rate at which you are inserting defects.
www.xprogramming.com /xpmag/koreanintro.htm   (1278 words)

  
 Some of My Favorite Words Page
These words describe situations, relations, or things that exist in other languages because they have a word for it.
A sudden, brief awareness of the brevity and fragility of existence, such as a glimpse of a herd of deer running softly through a forest or noticing the sheen of moisture in a woman's eyes.
The root word "ma-" means the measure or structure.
www.andreas.com /fremword.html   (997 words)

  
 SICE Dispute Settlement WTO Report WT/DS98/R /AC
This obligation is to apply a measure that is commensurate with the goals of preventing or remedying the serious injury suffered by the domestic industry and of facilitating the adjustment of the domestic industry.
Rather, we must evaluate whether in deciding on the type and level of the measure to be applied, the Korean authorities considered relevant information and explained their decision that the measure chosen was no more restrictive than necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury to the Korean dairy industry and to facilitate the industry's adjustment.
The European Communities argues that in view of the limitative character of safeguard measures, their inclusion in the WTO system is accompanied by limits to their use, so that the interests of all the parties may be protected.
www.sice.oas.org /DISPUTE/wto/ds98/98r29e.asp   (3136 words)

  
 Important Chinese Words----www.sino-books.cn
For each word, its pinyin romanization and its English meaning are shown.
Two example sentences or idiomatic expressions with their pinyin romanization and translation into English are provided for each word in order to enable the reader to use it correctly in Chinese sentences.
When attempting to pronounce Chinese words, do not compare the sounds to English or any other Western language because many of the sounds do not exist in these languages.
www.sino-books.cn /Chinese_Words_I.htm   (836 words)

  
 The People's Blog - Countdown to the Revolution, with Bjørn Stærk   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Here's a thoughtful piece at the Korean Central News Agency of DPRK, on who's the bigger threat to world security: U.S. mandarins' reckless remarks against DPRK refuted.
By zealously floating the fiction of "nuclear development" by the DPRK, the U.S. war hawks seek to convince the world of the "danger of nukes" from the DPRK and use it as a pretext to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it.
It is their intention to raise the cloud of the first nuclear mushroom on the Korean Peninsula in the new century.
www.bearstrong.net /warblog/peoplesblog.html   (1657 words)

  
 DDR Freak - DDR Freak Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marching from left to right when there is a measure of 1/4th left and right arrows.
A measurement for the difficulty of song, ranging from 1 (easiest) to 10 (hardest).
Measures five attributes: Voltage, Stream, Chaos, Freeze, and Air.
www.ddrfreak.com /library/dictionary.php   (3253 words)

  
 Hoystory.com
Word in the newsroom is that Julian, a really nice little town, is in imminent danger of being wiped out by the blaze.
The report notes: "The interviewer had difficulty finding words to describe the sadness in this grandmother's eyes and the anguish on her face as she recounted her experience as a midwife at the detention center in South Sinuiju"--one of the sites shown in detail in the accompanying satellite photos.
Strong words from Jones, who told me at the same time that Krugman is not wrong, in principle, to be concerned about the US's "rapid accumulation of debt," and that indeed the US scores poorly by Damocles' standards.
hoystory.blogspot.com /2003_10_01_hoystory_archive.html   (14545 words)

  
 World Wide Words: Where it’s at
At that time, it was either a unit of weight or of volume, representing one amphora, a measure that was based on the capacity of the standard terracotta jars that were then employed to transport grain and liquid about the Mediterranean (the capacity of an amphora was one thirtieth of a barrel).
In German, it is frequently called Klammeraffe, “spider monkey” (you can imagine the monkey’s tail), though this word also has a figurative sense very similar to that of the English “leech” (“He grips like a leech”).
In English the name of the sign seems to be most commonly given as at or, more fully, commercial at, which is the official name given to it in the international standard character sets.
www.worldwidewords.org /articles/whereat.htm   (928 words)

  
 Chinese language - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Characters which are used exclusively in the transcription of foreign words are present in Chinese; many of these characters date back to Middle Chinese wherein they were used to translate Sanskrit phonemes.
For example, the word telephone was loaned as 德律風 (Standard Mandarin: délǜfēng) in the 1920s, but later 电话 (diànhuà "electric speech") became prevalent.
In general, all spoken varieties of Chinese are isolating languages, in that they depend on syntax (word order and sentence structure) rather than morphology (changes in the form of the word through inflection).
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Chinese_language   (4860 words)

  
 Korean language   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The opponents of this view believe that much of the Altaic influences in the language was infused later in Korean history during the Mongol rule over Korea during the Goryeo dyansty.
Main article: Hangul The Korean language was originally written using "Hanja", or Chinese characters; it is now mainly written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, optionally mixing in Hanja to write Sino-Korean words.
(See also: Hangul consonant tables) Modern Korean is written with spacess between words, a feature not found in the other CJK languages (Chinese and Japanese).
www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/k/ko/korean_language.html   (2360 words)

  
 Composing Music for the Family Pledge
I was reluctant to do it because first of all, I'm not Korean and to put music to Father's words, especially such an important 8 paragraphs was a bit intimidating to me. I decided that this was a job for a Korean musician, not for me so I didn't give it another thought.
We discussed the 3 measures where she thought the Korean words needed more emphasis by being on the "downbeat".
My concern always was that not only should the Korean words have the right emphasis but that the music makes sense to a musician that hears it for the first time.
www.tparents.org /UNews/Unws0109/yasauko_music_pledge.htm   (1799 words)

  
 M
General meanings include: unchanging measurement of a field by ten; 1/15 of a hectare." (Chinese) mu - "Name for a pictograph showing a standing rectangle shape with three equal sections [resembling a ladder-like shape].
Associated spellings/ words: munuc, munik, munih, munkr, monachus, monakhos, monos ['alone']." Monkey - "Year of the Monkey, the 9th twelve-year cycle in the Chinese calendar." monogenhs - "Transliterated Greek spelling for the word/words 'only begotten' [John 1:14].
Associated spellings/ words: mhrimna; merimnao ['to care, to be concerned about']; promerimnao ['to be anxious ahead of time']; melei ['general concern']." me mong - "Definitions: mirror." (Tibetan) MALINGER - "Definitions: feign illness, pretend illness to avoid duty.
mirrorh.com /m.htm   (12766 words)

  
 Learning Chinese Measure Words, Chinese, Learn, Printed Matter
Mastering measure words is one of the most challenging aspects of learning Chinese.
This book selects the 143 most common ones, with examples in SC and HP, showing usage in the context of everyday dialogues.
From ordering dim sum (steamed snacks) to asking for directions to the Taoist monastery, learn basic Cantonese words and phrases easily and quickly.
www.worldlanguage.com /Products/Learning-Chinese-Measure-Words-Tutorial-100964.htm   (249 words)

  
 DAWN - Opinion; January 13, 2003
THE North Korean nuclear weapons programme is a direct challenge to the international system, not primarily to the United States.
The only outcome of these talks that will not constitute a major setback to the cause of nonproliferation is a restoration of North Korea’s previous nuclear status by shutting down its plutonium reactors, returning their fuel rods to storage under international inspection and readmitting IDEA inspectors to all facilities.
But if the South Korean government manoeuvres itself into a position whereby the price of the alliance is American acquiescence in a nuclear weapons programme in the North, this deployment cannot be sustained, either in South Korean or American public opinion.
www.dawn.com /2003/01/13/op.htm   (5357 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
When the Republicans use the word -- when the president of the United States uses the word "quota," that is not inclusive.
The word "quota" is a race code word that Americans know, and pollsters certainly know, appeals to people's fears about losing their job or their place in the university to a member of the community of color.
One of the president's big themes today, as he signed this big sweeping measure into law, was that he is the president to promise and now has delivered.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0312/08/ip.00.html   (7274 words)

  
 Dark Night Press - News
To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in — and in many cases excelling at — it was because of their absolute refusal to see.
Or maybe it was some or all of the at least 3.2 million Indochinese who perished as a result of America's sustained and genocidal assault on Southeast Asia (1959-1975), not to mention the millions more who've died because of the sanctions imposed thereafter.
Perhaps there were a few of the Korean civilians massacred by US troops at places like No Gun Ri during the early ‘50s, or the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians ruthlessly incinerated in the ghastly fire raids of World War II (only at Dresden did America bomb Germany in a similar manner).
www.darknightpress.org /index.php?i=news&c=recent&view=9&long=1   (4423 words)

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