Entertainment / Literature / Idiom: In its loosest sense, the word idiom is often used as a synonym for dialect or idiolect. In its more scholarly and narrow sense, an idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language. For instance, the English expression, 'She has a bee in her bonnet,' meaning 'she is obsessed,' cannot be literally translated into another language word for word. It's a non-literal idiomatic expression, akin to 'She is green with envy.' In the same way, the Spanish phrase, 'Me gustan los arboles,' is usually translated as, 'I like the trees,' but if we were to pull the phrase apart and read it word for word, it would make no sense in analytical English (i.e., 'To me pleases the trees').
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Idiom Noun Synonyms: language, tongue, speech, vernacular, dialect, argot, patois, jargon, cant, idiolect, parlance, fa‡on de parler, phraseology
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Science / Psychiatry / Incoherence: Speech or thinking that is essentially incomprehensible to others because words or phrases are joined together without a logical or meaningful connection. This disturbance occurs within clauses, in co MORE