The ordering of the syntactic constituents of a language.

(mathematics, combinatorics) A string consisting of n X's and n Y's such that no initial segment of the string has more Y's than X's.

plural of Dyck word

(medicine) Auditory aphasia: a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them.

An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.

Consisting of a single word.

(linguistics, lexicography) A word that is not a function word, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.

Consisting of more than one word.

(linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

(computer science, computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar.