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concordancing

concordancing is the present participle and gerund of concordance.

Meaning of concordance

Verb

concordance (third-person singular simple present concordances, present participle concordancing, simple past and past participle concordanced)

  1. (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).
    • Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke...

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Questions about concordancing

What is concordancing the present participle and gerund of?
Concordancing is the present participle and gerund of concordance.

Words near concordancing in the dictionary

  1. concordanced
  2. concordancer
  3. concordancers
  4. concordances
  5. concordancies
  6. concordancing
  7. concordancy
  8. concordant
  9. concordantial
  10. concordantly
  11. concordat

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