Lemma vs. Lexeme
Difference Between Lemma and Lexeme
Lemmanoun
(mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
Lexemenoun
(linguistics) A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word.
Lemmanoun
The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
Lexemenoun
(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).
Lemmanoun
(psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.
Lexemenoun
a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
Lemmanoun
(botany) The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
Lemmanoun
(botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
Lemmanoun
a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
Lemmanoun
the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
Lemmanoun
the head of an annotation or gloss
