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  méthodique
  méthodologie
  méthodologie ascendante
  méthodologie descendante
  métonymie
  métonymique
  mètre
métrique1
  métrique2
  mettre en évidence
  mettre en exergue
  mettre en valeur
  microcontexte
  microlinguistique1
  microlinguistique2

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English

metric(al)

Fr    métrique1

adj

Domain: Phonology

Source(s): Crystal 2003: 292 (also "metrical grid", metrical phonology"); Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 187 (metric figure, metric line, metric pause, metric sequence); ELL: 5145 (metrical grid, metrical phonology, metrical tree); Halliday 1994: 8 (metrical verse); Hartmann & Stork 1972: 141 (metrical line, metrical structure); MacKay 1989: 191; Matthews 1997: 224-225 (also "metrical grid", "Metrical Phonology"); Trask 1996: 222-223 (also "metrical constituency", "metrical grid", "Metrical Phonology", "metrical tree"); Wales 1989: 298 (metrical pattern, metrical set, metrical style)


English word list

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  metadiscourse
  metalanguage1
  metalanguage2
  metalepsis
  metalinguistic
  metalinguistics
  metaphone
  metaphony
  metaphor
  metaphorical
  metaphoric(al) code switching
  metaphorical extension
  metaphorically
  metaplasm
  metathesis

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