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A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences
The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language
The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language
{n} a system, order, construction of words
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 arrangement of words to show relationships of meaning within a sentence
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]
studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
The rules governing the structure of a language
The rules governing the construction of a machine language or machine representation of entities
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
The rules governing the expression of a programming language
The grammatical rules of a programming language
The rules of grammar that define the formal structure of a language See also: Semantics
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
the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences
the rules of a grammar which govern the way words are combined to form sentences and other phrases in a language
The syntax of a programming language describes the structure of programs
The way in which linguistic elements (words and phrases) are arranged to form grammatical structure
the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
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
The orderly system by which commands, qualifiers, and parameters are combined to form valid command strings
The rules governing the construction of search expressions in search engines and directories
Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism
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 language employed by a search tool which govern the rules for constructing a search
the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences a systematic orderly arrangement
The grammar system of a language The linguistic rules of word order and the function of words in a sentence
{i} study of sentence structure (Grammar); rules governing the arrangement of instructions in a programming language (Computers); orderly arrangement
Rules that govern the combination of morphemes into larger linguistic units (e g , phrases and sentences) (Solso)
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 systematic orderly arrangement
A set of grammatical rules defining valid use of specific commands or instructions in a computer language
syntaxis
syntax highlighting
highlighting of source code using different techniques (coloring, boldfacing)
syntax highlightings
plural form of syntax highlighting
syntax checker
a program to check natural language syntax
syntax error
error in sentence construction, grammatical error, technical mistake that is a result of a grammatical exception in structure
syntax error
an error of language resulting from code that does not conform to the syntax of the programming language; "syntax errors can be recognized at compilation time"; "a common syntax error is to omit a parenthesis
syntax language
a language used to describe the syntax of another language
morpho-syntax
More formal term for grammar in a linguistic sense
morpho-syntax
: The system of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences (syntax)
syntaxes
plural of syntax
syntax

    Hyphenation

    syn·tax

    Turkish pronunciation

    sîntäks

    Pronunciation

    /ˈsənˌtaks/ /ˈsɪnˌtæks/

    Etymology

    [ sin-"taks ] (noun.) 1574. Ancient Greek σύνταξις (suntaksis), from σύν (sun, “together”) + τάξις (taksis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tassō, “I arrange”).
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