"characteristic word" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a word that is particularly associated with a person, place, or thing, or to distinguish a word from its synonyms. For example, "The distinctive characteristic word of the town's name is 'Mun'".
Grammar is simple and regular; there are characteristic word endings for nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
Yet the sheer insistence of his addresses to the Bridge — the most characteristic word in the poem, and one of the most frequent, is "O" — reveal a strain.
All the meanings associated with "tack" and "tackle", not excluding the association with male genitalia, seem captured in that marvellously characteristic word.
Legend has it that during his pneumonia-racked, monthlong presidency, William Henry Harrison fell into a trance and produced a list of 61 speakers of the House from the founding of the republic until the collapse of the Constitution, describing each with a characteristic word or phrase.
This body of texts, probably imported from the Middle East (Syria, Palestine, Iraq), is known as the "Midrash of Rabbi Nehunya ben Haqana" (from the name of a 1st-century rabbi) or Sefer ha-bahir ("Book of Brightness," from a characteristic word of the first verse of Scripture to be elucidated in the work).
The fluffy-tail test takes advantage of a characteristic word distribution of CRMs to identify regulatory sequences [8].
As these characteristic words indicate, the spirit and mind were as ever, though the body appeared too weak for writing, maybe even for dictation.
Note that the characteristic words selected for each category may be duplicated.
A comparison of Tables 1a and 1b reveals that the characteristic words for the two sets are distinct, with no overlaps.
Interestingly, negative personality trait words elicited larger LPC compared to physical characteristic words at central-parietal electrodes (e.g., CP3, CP4), while positive personality trait words elicited larger LPC relative to physical characteristic words at parietal-occipital electrodes (e.g., PO3, PO4).
Learning rate has been found to be sensitive to age-related memory deficits and even to stimuli characteristics (word frequency) in older adults [ 20].
