类推作用
lèi​tuī​zuò​yòng

analogy

  • created sense approved 类推作用/類推作用 · lèi​tuī​zuò​yòng · analogy — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    类推作用 / 類推作用

    lèi​tuī​zuò​yòng

    analogy

    The linguistic phenomenon where new words or grammatical patterns are created based on the pattern of existing ones; for example, applying a common rule to an irregular word.

    类推 (literal) → 类推/類推 · lèi​tuī · to reason by analogy 作用 (literal) → 作用 · zuò​yòng · function

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense