Syntax

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syntax \Syn"tax\, n. [L. syntaxis, Gr. ?, fr. ? to put together
     in order; sy`n with + ? to put in order; cf. F. syntaxe. See
     {Syn-}, and {Tactics}.]
     1. Connected system or order; union of things; a number of
        things jointed together; organism. [Obs.]
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              They owe no other dependence to the first than what
              is common to the whole syntax of beings. --Glanvill.
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     2. That part of grammar which treats of the construction of
        sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in
        their necessary relations, according to established usage
        in any language.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  syntax
       n 1: the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences [syn: {sentence
            structure}, {phrase structure}]
       2: a systematic orderly arrangement
       3: studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "syntax":
     IC analysis, allocation, allotment, apportionment, appositive,
     arrangement, array, arraying, attribute, attributive, collation,
     collocation, complement, constitution, construction modifier,
     cutting, deep structure, deployment, direct object, disposal,
     disposition, distribution, filler, form, form-function unit,
     formation, formulation, function, immediate constituent analysis,
     indirect object, levels, marshaling, modifier, object, order,
     ordering, phrase structure, placement, predicate, qualifier, ranks,
     regimentation, shallow structure, slot, slot and filler, strata,
     structure, structuring, subject, surface structure,
     syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, tagmeme,
     underlying structure, word arrangement, word order
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  syntax
       
          The structure of strings in some language.  A language's
          syntax is described by a {grammar}.  For example, the syntax
          of a binary number could be expressed as
       
          	binary_number = bit [ binary_number ]
       
          	bit = "0" | "1"
       
          meaning that a binary number is a bit optionally followed by a
          binary number and a bit is a literal zero or one digit.
       
          The meaning of the language is given by its {semantics}.
       
          See also {abstract syntax}, {concrete syntax}.
       
          (1994-10-31)