Meaning of subsubsense | Babel Free

Definitions

A subsense of a subsense.

rare

Examples

“To simplify⟳ the discussion, I will assume⟳ that the lexeme has no subsenses, subsubsenses, etc.—although this is seldom the case in actuality.”

“The Oxford English Dictionary gives scores of different senses, subsenses, and subsubsenses for "eat⟳" whereas the Hanyu Da Cidian offers about a score⟳ of different senses for chi; most of the extended, figurative, and slang usages of chi ("eat⟳") are very recent – within the last⟳ century or two.”

“The paired sense⟳ data can be classified as one of four levels of similarity: the Roman-numeralled homograph level (band-I (group) vs band-II (ring⟳)), the major sense⟳ level (band-I.1 (music group) vs band-I.2 (other group)), the subsense level (which we arbitrarily use⟳ to refer⟳ to the distance between a general sense⟳ number⟳ such as I.1 and its specialization (I.1.2)), and finally the subsubsense level (such as between I.1.1 and I.1.2).[…]In contrast, at the finer subsubsense level only 52 per cent of the given pairs were translated differently.”

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