The rules for exactly how symbols and words can be combined within a particular programming language If a programmer tries to write an instruction in a computer program that violates the rules of syntax, an error message results and the program will not run
The formal rules which determine how keywords or commands and their components need to be combined when writing the source code of a computer program or forming shell commands
The form and structure with which metadata elements are combined In the case of Dublin Core, the form and structure of how metadata elements and their components are combined to form a metadata record
rules governing the way in which characters and words must be put together to form a command that can be recognized and acted upon by the UNIX operating system
The structural or grammatical rules that define how symbols in a language are to be combined to form words, phrases, expressions, and other allowable constructs [10]
From the Greek syn-taxis, to "put together " The system or rules according to which a particular language arranges words to make meaningful sentences According to the rules of English syntax, "the cheese flew green paper within atoms" is syntactically correct English, even though it makes no sense Words are arranged according to the rules of syntax into sentences, just as sounds (phonemes) are arranged according to the rules of morphology to form words
Syntax applies to functions and the way functions are used in program expressions The syntax describes the form that the program expression must take when it uses that function Syntax can also be thought of as the rules for writing a program expression, or the structure of a program expression Here, for example, is the syntax of the substr (substring) function: {This function takes three arguments in the following form: (substr argument1 argument2 argument3) Argument1 is a string Argument2 is an integer indicating how far into the string to begin extracting the substring Argument3 is optional and is an integer indicating how long the substring will be } By describing what arguments are used with the function, the order of the arguments, and how those arguments work, we have described the function's syntax
Syntax is the set of rules for entering search words and phrases using ProQuest These rules define the order of search words and options you use to structure your search, along with the search codes, operators, and symbols you can use to find articles How you arrange the search words and search fields, operators, etc determines how ProQuest finds articles For more information, see the Syntax Guide
Syntax is the ways that words can be put together, or are put together, in order to make sentences. His grammar and syntax, both in oral and written expression, were much better than the average. Arrangement of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases, and the study of the formation of sentences and the relationship of their component parts. In English, the main device for showing this relationship is word order; for example, "The boy loves his dog" follows standard subject-verb-object word order, and switching the order of such a sentence would change the meaning or make the sentence meaningless. Word order is much more flexible in languages such as Latin, in which word endings indicate the case of a noun or adjective; such inflections make it unnecessary to rely on word order to indicate a word's function in the sentence
That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language
The grammar or rules which define the structure of the EDI standards (i e , the use of loops, qualifiers, etc ) Syntax rules are published in EDIFACT documentation
A set of grammatical rules defining valid use of specific commands or instructions in a computer language
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[ 'sin-"taks ] (noun.) 1574. French or Late Latin; French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek, from syntassein to arrange together, from syn- + tassein to arrange.