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concordance
- /kənˈkɔːdəns/ UK
- /kənˈkɔɹdəns/ US
noun concordances · concordaunce
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Agreement; accordance; consonance.
John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.
Similar: accordance, agreement, consonance
- Agreement of words with one another; concord.
- A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place. c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
- A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
- The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
- A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.
verb concordances · concordancing · concordanced · concordaunce
- To create a concordance from (a corpus). Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.
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noun alphabetical index
| Español | concordancias, concordanza |
|---|---|
| Português | índice remissivo |
| Français | concordance |
| Deutsch | Konkordanz |
| Русский | конкорда́нция konkordáncija, конкорда́нс konkordáns, симфо́ния simfónija |
| עברית | קוֹנְקוֹרְדַּנְצִיָּה konkordántsiya |
noun agreement — see also agreement, concordancy
| Español | concordanza |
|---|---|
| Français | concordance |
| Deutsch | Übereinstimmung |
| Română | concordanță, acord, potrivire, armonie |
| Русский | согла́сие soglásije, согласо́ванность soglasóvannostʹ, согласова́ние soglasovánije |
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title = {concordance},
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