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Particle: A short word without a well-defined grammatical category.
Pas t par tici ple: A verb form that indicates past or completed action. It can be used with an auxiliary verb
as in “The cake was baked yesterday,” or as an adjective, as in “baked beans.”
Phrase: A sequence of two or more words which express an idea.
Plugin: A software component that adds a specific feature or service to a larger application. For example,
SYSTRAN v6 provides plugins for performing translations from Internet Explorer, Firefox, and
Microsoft Office 2003, XP, and 2000 applications (Word, Excel,PowerPoint, and Outlook).
POS: The acronym for Part of Speech, like for a verb, noun, etc.
Preposition: A word placed before a noun or noun phrase, indicating the relation of that noun or noun
phrase to a verb, an adjective, or another noun or noun phrase, such as at,by, in, to, from, and with.
Prepositional phrase: A phrase that consists of a preposition plus the noun or noun phrase that it governs,
such as at the park, in reference to your letter, or from Mars.
Present participle: A verb form expressing present action, formed in English from the infinitive plus-ing,
which can be used with auxiliary verbs as in “He is baking a cake;” as an adjective,“the baking
rack;” or as a noun, as in “the act of baking.”
Pronoun: A word that functions as a substitute for a noun or a noun phrase and designates persons or
things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context. For example, I, it, that, and
which.
Proper noun: A noun belonging to the class of words used as names for individuals or places. For
example, Clinton or Boston.
S
Second person: A pronoun that refers to the listener. For example, you in “You see” or “You are.” Also, a
verb form that refers to the listener. For example, are in “You are.” Verb inflection rarely indicates
person in English, but in other languages, it often does.
Semantic: Having to do with meaning.
Sentence: A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or
understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
Source: Related to the language you are translating from (source language, source document,etc.)
Specialized Dictionary: A translation dictionary that contains terms that are subject specific.
Subjunctive: A verb form that indicates possibility, doubt, or desire rather than fact. For example,were in
“I wish it were true”, or start in “I suggest you start immediately.”
Subordinate clause: A clause that modifies or expands on other clauses. A subordinate clause modifies or
expands on another clause. It cannot stand alone, as that he gave in “The account that he gave was
true”.
Subordinate clause marker: A word that indicates a clause is a subordinate clause, such as that, which, or
who.
Subordinate phrase: A phrase that modifies or expands on other phrases.
Syntactic: Having to do with sentence structure.
T
Target: Related to the language you are translating into (target language, target document,etc.).