ALL meanings of syntax
syn·tax
S s - noun syntax Linguistics. the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words. the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax. a presentation of these: a syntax of English. an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence. 1
- noun syntax Logic. that branch of modern logic that studies the various kinds of signs that occur in a system and the possible arrangements of those signs, complete abstraction being made of the meaning of the signs. the outcome of such a study when directed upon a specified language. 1
- noun syntax a system or orderly arrangement. 1
- noun syntax Computers. the grammatical rules and structural patterns governing the ordered use of appropriate words and symbols for issuing commands, writing code, etc., in a particular software application or programming language. 1
- noun syntax sentence structure, word order 1
- uncountable noun syntax Syntax is the ways that words can be put together, or are put together, in order to make sentences. 0
- noun syntax the branch of linguistics that deals with the grammatical arrangement of words and morphemes in the sentences of a language or of languages in general 0
- noun syntax the totality of facts about the grammatical arrangement of words in a language 0
- noun syntax a systematic statement of the rules governing the grammatical arrangement of words and morphemes in a language 0
- noun syntax a systematic statement of the rules governing the properly formed formulas of a logical system 0
- noun syntax any orderly arrangement or system 0
- noun syntax orderly or systematic arrangement 0
- noun syntax the arrangement of and relationships among words, phrases, and clauses forming sentences; sentence structure 0
- noun syntax the study of this 0
- noun syntax the structure of statements in a computer language 0
- noun syntax the rules governing this structure 0
- noun syntax syntactics as applied to language in the abstract 0