Sentence examples for primitive words from inspiring English sources

Primitive words, or strings over a finite alphabet that cannot be written as a power of another string, play an important role in numerous research areas including formal language theory, coding theory, and combinatorics on words.

All of Forth's control flow words are executed during compilation to compile various combinations of the primitive words BRANCH (unconditional branch) and ?BRANCH (pop a value off the stack, and branch if it is false).

Donald Sterling is nothing more than a piñata of racism, now dangling from the rope of his own primitive words: he is a colorfully painted example of racism that requires no work to identify or understand, and becomes a convenient object for people to gather around to beat aggressively.

For Bernard as grammarian, the relation of the primitive word to its derivatives was of the same sort as the relation of the Platonic Idea to its immersion in the material world.

There are Edison Victrola record players, 1930's Teletype machines, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator with a radio built into it and an 1895 machine the size of a kitchen table that functioned like a primitive word processor.

LIT is the primitive word for pushing a "literal" number onto the data stack.

And she could hear a sound, rising steadily, not in steps like a scale but in a slow glissando, not quite a violin or a voice but somewhere in between, rising and rising unbearably, without ever leaving the audible range, a violin-voice that was just on the edge of making sense, telling her something urgent in sibilants and vowels more primitive than words.

For example, the primitive Mentalese words JOHN, MARY, and LOVES can combine to form the Mentalese sentence JOHN LOVES MARY.

The mottled surface of the desk where he writes is dark green, almost black, and glowing green are the little letters on the screen of the primitive Tandy word processor the newspaper has given him, and an excellent forest green is the cover of "The Portable James Joyce," my mother's Penguin paperback from college.

In his view, when Mary finally has an experience of blue she "tokens a semantically primitive mental word for the type of first-order state being inwardly sensed".

It recognizes as expressions of a primitive concept the words that appear frequently in the documents that are known to express the concept (called domain corpus), but not frequently in a representative subset of all documents (called generic corpus).