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interjection
interjection English part of speech consisting of exclamatory words such as oh, alas, and ouch. They are marked by a feature of intonation that is usually shown in writing by an exclamation point (see punctuation ). Many languages have classes like interjections. ... Read more
part of speech
part of speech in traditional English grammar , any one of about eight major classes of words, based on the parts of speech of ancient Greek and Latin. The parts of speech are noun , verb , adjective , adverb, interjection , preposition , conjunction , and pronoun . Some grammarians add art... Read more
saga
saga in Old Norse literature , especially Icelandic and Norwegian, narrative in prose or verse, centering on a legendary or historical figure or family. Sagas may be divided into sagas of the kings, mainly of early Norwegian rulers; Icelandic sagas, both biographical and historical; contemporary s... Read more
saga
saga in Old Norse literature , especially Icelandic and Norwegian, narrative in prose or verse, centering on a legendary or historical figure or family. Sagas may be divided into sagas of the kings, mainly of early Norwegian rulers; Icelandic sagas, both biographical and historical; contemporary s... Read more
African languages
African languages geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent. Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, which do not belong to a single family, but are divided among several distinct linguistic stocks. It is estimated tha... Read more

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interjection
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition interjection English part of speech consisting of exclamatory words such as oh, alas, and ouch. They are marked by a feature of intonation that is usually shown in writing by an exclamation point (see punctuation ). Many languages have classes like interjections.
INTERJECTION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language INTERJECTION. A PART OF SPEECH and a term often used in dictionaries for marginal items functioning alone and...Such greetings as Hello , Hi , Goodbye and such exclamations as Cheers , Hurray , Well are also interjections.
FOUR-LETTER WORD
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...excrement. Linguistic taboo makes four-letter words candidates for semantic extension and transfer: Shit! and Fuck! are interjections of disapproval or dismay. The form fucking often has an emphatic function in casual but ‘coarse’...
PERIOD
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...America, but in the UK takes second place to full stop . Especially in colloquial AmE, the word period is often used as an interjection to indicate that someone has made a decision and has nothing more to say on the matter: ‘I forbid them to go...
Spirituals
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...but forceful answer of the congregation (“response”). Nor could manuscripts convey the improvised interjections of the singers or the multilayered rhythm of handclapping. The Negro spirituals lost popularity as black church music in...
Healy, Timothy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...and in 1884 was called to the bar. In 1890, when the Parnell divorce scandal broke, Healy attacked him vehemently: his interjection in Committee Room 15, ‘who is to be the mistress of the party?’, still reverberates. He was in...
Questel, Mae
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...renditions of "Button Up Your Overcoat" and "I Wanna Be Loved By You," replete with her signature "boop-oop-a-doop" interjections, made her the toast of Broadway. She had made a few singing short subject films at the beginning of the sound era, but...
Stuttering
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...speakers, some occurrence of disfluency is normal. For example, people may insert short sounds or words, referred to as "interjections," when speaking; examples of such are "um," "like," or "uh." Also, speakers might repeat phrases, revise words...
CANADIANISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language CANADIANISM. A usage or custom special to or common in Canada, especially in language, such as the interjection eh in He went into the store , eh , and saw this skidoo , eh , and riding to mean ‘political constituency’.
SINGAPORE ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Chinese) ang pow a gift of money, traditionally in a red packet (the meaning of the Hokkien words). (2) Non-English interjections include: ay yaah! suggesting exasperation; ay yōr! suggesting pain, wonder, or both; ay yēr...

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interjection
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology interjection ejaculation XV; (gram.) XVI. — (O)F. — L. interjectiō , -ōn- , f. interject- , pp. stem of intericere interpose, f. INTER- + jacere throw. So interject XVI.
Dupri, Jermaine
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...arrangement with Columbia Records. Known for a "bouncy" production style in which sinuous rhythms are punctuated by spoken interjections, Dupri was a trendsetter in 1990s rap and R&B. By the end of the decade, Dupri was releasing guest-laden solo...
Michael, George
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...lost youth. Throughout the song, the reverbed vocal line is cushioned by lush strings, gentle piano comping, trumpet interjections, and a slow rock beat that transports the feelings with the greatest ease. In the most upbeat track of the album, "Fastlove...
Ehrlich, Paul
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...friends. Besides many of his mother ’ s characteristics the boy had his father ’ s excitability and interjection-ridden manner of speech, and perhaps inherited certain aptitudes from his paternal grandfather, Heimann Ehrlich, a prosperous...
Berio, Luciano
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...s Das Rheingold , Ravel's La Valse , and Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier , and Laborintus II , where street cries and interjections are blended with references to madrigals and to jazz. Another collage is Recital I (for Cathy) , one of several works...
and
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...connect two numbers, implying succession: a line of men marching two and two. 2. used to introduce an additional comment or interjection: they believe they are descended from him, and quite right, too. ∎  used to introduce a question in...
Asleep at the Wheel
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...of Benson's idol Bob Wills, often considered the founder of western swing. Famed for his onstage clowning and spoken interjections to band members within songs, Wills formed the Texas Playboys in 1933, finding a distinctive lead vocalist in Tommy Duncan...
interj.
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English interj. • abbr. interjection.
part of speech
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English part of speech • n. a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
Biblioteca Nueva de Madrid (Freud, S., Obras Completas)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...primary reason is the absence of any systematic conceptual approach, made worse by the repeated literary and moralizing interjections of the translator, who exercised a certain degree of liberty in his work. There were also a number of omissions of words...

Thesaurus entries related to "interjection"

interjection
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English interjection • noun   1. the interjection of jokes into the script synonyms : insertion, introduction...intermingling, interspersion.   2. he gave an interjection of pain synonyms : cry, exclamation, ejaculation...
darn
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English darn • interjection  See damn interjection .
exclamation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus exclamation • noun  an exclamation of amazement synonyms : cry, call, shout, yell, interjection.
introduction
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...synonyms : basics, rudiments, fundamentals; groundwork.   6. the introduction of a serious note to the party synonyms : insertion, injection, interjection, interposition, interpolation, intercalation, addition, infusion.
interpolation
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English interpolation • noun   synonyms : insert, insertion, interjection, intercalation, introduction, addition, injection.
goodbye
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English goodbye • interjection   synonyms : farewell, au revoir, adieu; inf. bye, cheers, see you later, see you, so long, toodle-oo, ciao; inf. bye-bye, ta-ta.
good
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English good • interjection   synonyms : fine, very well, all right; inf. okay, OK, okeydoke, okeydokey.
done
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English done • interjection  you're offering $10? Done! synonyms : agreed, settled, that's a deal, accepted, right; inf. OK, you're on.
OK, okay
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English OK, okay • interjection  okay, I'll go synonyms : yes, all right, right, very well, very good; inf. right you are, righto.
exactly
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English exactly • interjection   synonyms : precisely, just so, quite so, quite, indeed, absolutely, truly, certainly, definitely, assuredly, undoubtedly.

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Interviews: Mark Dunn discusses his new book, "Zounds: A Browsers Dictionary of Interjections"
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 3/16/2005; ; 464 words ; ...co-host: The interjections in Mark Dunn's dictionary...Well, the Scottish interjection gardyloo, which in...the way. MONTAGNE: Interjections also creep into popular...this truckload of interjections. And, of course...trying to use every interjection in the English lexicon...
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns.(Book review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns...Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections displays a corpulence befitting its subject matter. Taking...
Interjections, tears in seamen's hearing
Newspaper article from: The Press; 2/20/1999; 288 words ; ...spokesman Artur Udovenko, to represent his group. Language difficulties and the use of a translator were compounded by interjections in Russian from the public gallery. At one stage the interpreter directed a volley of Russian at some of the seamen sitting...
DIVINE INTERJECTION
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 9/21/1994; 249 words ; The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-21-1994 DIVINE INTERJECTION Date: 09-21-1994, Wednesday Section: Passaic Morris Community Section Edition: 2 Star P Column: LETTERS Editor, The Record...
Letter to Editor - McCrae sorry for interjection
Newspaper article from: The Brandon Sun; 12/7/2007; ; 344 words ; ...breaking the rules. Coun. Campbell then proceeded with her presentation. I have respect for Coun. Campbell and regret my interjection was received negatively by those in attendance at the meeting. I know Coun. Campbell well enough to believe she will forgive...
Vrakas opposes using ex-nursing home for sex offenders; Panel balks at county executive's interjection before any recommendations have even been made
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/21/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...opposition from neighbors of the former nursing home. Some members of the task force objected to the county executive's interjection, with one member then leaving the meeting early. "It's just garbage," said Hartland Police Chief Robert Rosch, who...
Two things that hold Ebenezer at bay; it isn't the choir singing 'Winter Wonderland' that does it for me. It isn't even children piping 'Rudolph' with funny interjections.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 12/23/2002; 700+ words ; ...part harmony that does it. It isn't the enchanting schoolchildren piping "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with funny interjections. I have to admit that a gathering of unbelievably angelic infants singing in approximate unison and merry truthfulness...
Interjections I-IV: Thoreau in South America.
Magazine article from: Hollins Critic; 6/1/1988; ; 261 words ; Contents not available due to copyright restrictions.
Interjections unwelcome.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Risk & Insurance; 4/15/2006; ; 422 words ; Dear Editor, I see no matter the subject, individuals still have to interject Liberalism and their own narrow-minded views, even a columnist for Risk & Insurance[R]. There was absolutely no reason to characterize a "cleavage-heavy bimbo" as an "improvement" over former FEMA Director Michael
Interjection of rare works makes for fanciful evening
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/15/2002; ; 700+ words ; Grant Park Orchestra At first glance, most conductors have repertoires of wide-ranging scope. They are conducting Mozart one night and Mahler the next. Generalists who are comfortable with Beethoven and Bernstein seem to be the norm. But some conductors also develop personal affinities, finding