Expression vs Anaphor - What's the difference?
expression | anaphor |
A particular way of phrasing an idea.
A colloquialism or idiom.
A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
(biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.
(linguistics) An expression referring to another expression. In stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.
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As nouns the difference between expression and anaphor
is that expression is a particular way of phrasing an idea while anaphor is (linguistics) an expression referring to another expression in stricter uses, an expression referring to something earlier in the discourse or, even more strictly, only reflexive and reciprocal pronouns.expression
English
(wikipedia expression)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
Derived terms
* arithmetic expression * linguistic expression * logical expression * regular expression * expression pedalStatistics
* ----anaphor
English
(wikipedia anaphor)Noun
(en-noun)- Thus far, we have established that each other'' is an NP which functions as a
reciprocal anaphor''' requiring to take its reference from some antecedent else-
where in the sentence, and that ''themselves'' is an NP which functions as a re-
flexive ' anaphor which also requires an antecedent to take its reference from.