Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SYNTAX

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Definitions of SYNTAX

1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
2. (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.

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Examples of Using SYNTAX in a Sentence

• The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup.
• In the sense that the syntax of most modern languages is "Algol-like", it was arguably more influential than three other high-level programming languages among which it was roughly contemporary: FORTRAN, Lisp, and COBOL.
• Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program.
• A formal grammar describes how to form strings from a language's vocabulary (or alphabet) that are valid according to the language's syntax.
• Esperanto's vocabulary, syntax and semantics derive predominantly from languages of the Indo-European group.
• In reading, the delay of meaning creates a tension that is released when the word or phrase that completes the syntax is encountered (called the rejet); In spite of the apparent contradiction between rhyme, which heightens closure, and enjambment, which delays it, the technique is compatible with rhymed verse.
• In 1966, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) developed a standard for Fortran to limit proliferation of compilers using slightly different syntax.
• The term may also refer to the study of such rules, a subject that includes phonology, morphology, and syntax, together with phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.
• A small piece of code in most general-purpose programming languages, this program is used to illustrate a language's basic syntax.
• These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques.
• The Klerer–May System is a programming language developed in the mid-1960s, oriented to numerical scientific programming, whose most notable feature is its two-dimensional syntax based on traditional mathematical notation.
• The character Dr Syntax was invented by the writer William Combe in his 1809 comic verse The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, which satirised the work of seekers of the "picturesque" such as William Gilpin.
• The language syntax is English-like and suited for describing complex data formats with a wide set of functions available to verify and manipulate them.
• Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning (semantics).
• Its syntax is highly fusional, and it has a dual grammatical number, an archaic feature shared with some other Indo-European languages.
• In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express.
• Semantics contrasts with syntax, which studies the rules that dictate how to create grammatically correct sentences, and pragmatics, which investigates how people use language in communication.
• TECO does not really have syntax; each character in a program is an imperative command, dispatched to its corresponding routine.
• Turing is a descendant of Pascal, Euclid, and SP/k that features a clean syntax and precise machine-independent semantics.
• Pizan uses the vernacular French language to compose the book, but she often uses Latin-style syntax and conventions within her French prose.
• The UDC is an analytico-synthetic and faceted classification system featuring detailed vocabulary and syntax that enables powerful content indexing and information retrieval in large collections.
• Urdu and Hindi share a common Sanskrit- and Prakrit-derived vocabulary base, phonology, syntax, and grammar, making them mutually intelligible during colloquial communication.
• A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken language, such as its lexicon and syntax.
• Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957.
• Theta role (in syntax or at the syntax-semantics interface), the formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb.

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