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Example sentences for "affixes"

Lexicographically close words:
affirmeth; affirming; affirms; affix; affixed; affixing; afflatus; afflict; afflicted; afflicteth
  1. It is not by any glutinous liquid, as it has been asserted, that this fish adheres so strongly to the rock; but by the simple process of producing a vacuum between its foot and the rock to which it affixes itself.

  2. He also expressed the opinion that "the Quechua word pampa resembles the Mexican amilpampa ehecatl=the south wind, but the Mexican is formed by the affixes pan and pa and the Quechua substantive means an even, open plain.

  3. To this list should be added the following affixes or prefixes, denoting, in each case, "place, land or region of.

  4. These affixes are the future forms shown in the chart of this section.

  5. The symbol A123P means that the root occurs only with potential-active affixes (i.

  6. The verb with these affixes always has stress on the final syllable and means ‘[do] s.

  7. All verbs with these affixes may also occur with hi-(→) inserted after the prefixes.

  8. The exception to this rule is forms which contain dead affixes—affixes which are not part of the productive or even live Cebuano morphological (inflectional and derivational) systems.

  9. A; a, takes the active affixes listed for A (Section 7.

  10. The symbolization B2S indicates that the penult is short with the durative affixes (mag-, etc.

  11. Verbal derivation The inflectional affixes are added not only to roots (forms containing no other affixes) but also to derived bases (forms containing further affixes).

  12. As the affixes have fixed meanings, they only have to be learnt once for all, and many of them (e.

  13. By referring to the full table of affixes in Part IV, Chapter IV, the reader can go on forming new compounds ad libitum: e.

  14. It affixes {23} its seal only to the books it has issued.

  15. It affixes its seal to the books we now know as the Bible.

  16. Frege regarded the propositions of logic as names, and their arguments as the affixes of those names.

  17. For both arguments and affixes enable me to recognize the meaning of the signs containing them.

  18. The arguments of functions are readily confused with the affixes of names.

  19. We are somewhat at loss to perceive the precise idea the author affixes to the term “national wealth.

  20. We confess that we are somewhat at a loss to determine the precise idea the doctor affixes to this term.

  21. One that is formed by the addition of affixes without changing the letters in the primitive part (except final e silent).

  22. To indicate the proper pronunciation by separating affixes from the roots.

  23. This participle generally ends in l; and much uncertainty prevails both as to its origin and its relations, though the termination has been compared by various philologists with similar affixes in the Sanscrit, and the classical languages.

  24. The Jewish Bible accepts the rendering of "hailstones" in both these passages, but affixes the mark of doubt to the word, whereas in Job xxviii.

  25. The Hebrew Bible retains the word Glede, but affixes a mark of doubt to it, and several commentators are of opinion that the word is a wrong reading of dayah, which occurs in the parallel passage in Lev.

  26. The Jewish Bible follows our version, but affixes the mark of doubt to the word.

  27. The Jewish Bible follows the Authorized Version, but affixes the mark of doubt to the word.

  28. Moreover, the Jewish Bible follows the same translation, and renders tachmas as Night-hawk, but affixes the mark of doubt.

  29. The Jewish Bible follows the same reading, but affixes the mark of doubt to the word.

  30. The Jewish Bible retains the reading of palmer-worm, but affixes the mark of doubt, as it does to the canker-worm.

  31. Similarly, in other cases, when two affixes are used in one word it is easy to decide which has precedence.

  32. About thirty affixes are employed to modify the meanings of root-words, thus minimising the amount of brain work required to acquire a long vocabulary.

  33. To do away the effect of Palmer's letter, signed Grant, he writes a letter himself and affixes to it the name of Grant.

  34. When applied to compacts between sovereign States, the term constitutional affixes to the word compact no definite idea.

  35. But only a few of these affixes really appear to designate tense; of the others this may be suspected at best, and of others again it is improbable.

  36. They are found, moreover, outside of the verb elsewhere in the language either without any change or with slight differences of sound; the personal signs as pronouns, the other affixes as particles.

  37. The affixed pronouns are either special, confined to these expressions, or if elsewhere in the tongue, are not employed with verbs, or not in this manner; or they are the pronominal affixes of the verb itself.

  38. They have therefore but one type of personal forms to be applied in every tense and mode by means of the particles or the affixes formed from them.

  39. The stem undergoes little change, but the attaching of the affixes to it renders it impossible to apply the same scheme to all verbs, and hence leads to a division of them into three conjugations.

  40. Thus there are verbal affixes which cannot be considered to designate either persons, modes or tenses.

  41. Other tenses merely change the initial letter of the verb, while there is little similarity between these affixes and the pronouns.

  42. All affixes of mode and tense, however, may be united to this phrase, so that thus it approaches a verb.

  43. All words are derived from simple, monosyllabic roots, by means of affixes and suffixes.

  44. As so much of the strength of the languages depends on this plan of word building, I have drawn off a list of a few of the more frequent affixes of the Lenape, with their signification:-- Lenape Prefixes.

  45. These descriptive affixes have a tendency, from repeated use, to grow into formulæ, and then at length they approximate to the nature of titles.

  46. Both in modern society, and in the forms of modern language, the distinction is a familiar one, which separates between descriptive affixes or epithets, and titles properly so called.

  47. Possibly because these prefixes and affixes were so common, they came to be taken for granted; it was scarcely necessary to write them, because in any case they would be understood.

  48. Moreover, some names which have not these prefixes and affixes in their extant form are contractions of older forms which began or ended with a Divine name.

  49. With a degree of ingratitude which excites our abhorrence, he clouds with sorrow the future existence of those by whom he was most tenderly beloved, and affixes a mark of ignominy on his unfortunate descendants.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affixes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.