Meaning of startword | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A string of letters that identifies the beginning of a valid sequence in a specified language.
2. The first appearance of a genre in print.

Examples

“In fact, a set of metarules and a set of hyperrules is given whose power exceeds by far this example and only the choice of a specific hyperrule for the startword restricts it to this example.”

“A variation on this type of normalization consists of using a combination of startword lists and exclusion classes, e.g. remove all comparative adjectives except those in a domain list.”

“Suppose that the colony starts its work from startword AA and let its terminal set be {a,b,c}”

“It was the translation of Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Virgil that gave English Elizabethan poetry the startword.”

“The attraction of the French romances of chivalry for William Morris, of Tuscan painting for D.G. Rossetti, of the spirit of English Gothic architecture for Christina Rossetti, of the combination of all these with Greek and Elizabethan elements for Mr. Swinburne, were to be traced back to startwords given by the prophetic author of the Seven Lamps of Architecture.”

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