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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grammar \gram"mar\, v. i.
   to discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use
   grammar. obs. --beau.  fl.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grammar \gram"mar\, n. oe. gramere, of. gramaire, f. grammaire
   prob. fr. l. gramatica gr ?, fem. of ? skilled in grammar,
   fr. ? letter. see gramme, graphic, and cf. grammatical,
   gramarye.
   1. the science which treats of the principles of language;
      the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one
      another; the art concerned with the right use and
      application of the rules of a language, in speaking or
      writing.
      1913 webster

   note: the whole fabric of grammar rests upon the classifying
         of words according to their function in the sentence.
         --bain.
         1913 webster

   2. the art of speaking or writing with correctness or
      according to established usage; speech considered with
      regard to the rules of a grammar.
      1913 webster

            the original bad grammar and bad spelling.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3. a treatise on the principles of language; a book
      containing the principles and rules for correctness in
      speaking or writing.
      1913 webster

   4. treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as,
      a grammar of geography.
      1913 webster

   comparative grammar, the science which determines the
      relations of kindred languages by examining and comparing
      their grammatical forms.

   grammar school.
      a a school, usually endowed, in which latin and greek
          grammar are taught, as also other studies preparatory
          to colleges or universities; as, the famous rugby
          grammar school. this use of the word is more common in
          england than in the united states.
          1913 webster

                when any town shall increase to the number of a
                hundred
                families or householders, they shall set up a
                grammar school, the master thereof being able to
                instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for
                the university.                   --mass.
                                                  records
                                                  1647.
      b in the american system of graded common schools, at
          one time the term referred to an intermediate school
          between the primary school and the high school, in
          which the principles of english grammar were taught;
          now, it is synonymous with primary school or
          elementary school, being the first school at which
          children are taught subjects required by the state
          educational laws. in different communities, the
          grammar school primary school may have grades 1 to
          4, 1 to 6, or 1 to 8, usually together with a
          kindergarten. schools between the primary school and
          high school are now commonly termed middle school or
          intermediate school.
          1913 webster +pjc
see also:
gramme graphic grammatical gramarye comparative grammar grammar school 
primary school elementary school middle school intermediate school 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
grammar
     n : studies of the formation of basic linguistic units

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 moby thesaurus words for "grammar":
   abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet, alphabet book, basics,
   battledore, bowwow theory, casebook, choice of words,
   comparative linguistics, composition, derivation,
   descriptive linguistics, dialect, dialectology, diction,
   dingdong theory, elements, etymology, exercise book, expression,
   first principles, first steps, formulation, fundamentals,
   glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, gradus,
   graphemics, historical linguistics, hornbook, idiom, induction,
   language, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics,
   linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, locution,
   manual, manual of instruction, mathematical linguistics,
   morphology, morphophonemics, outlines, paleography, parlance,
   philology, phonetics, phonology, phrase, phraseology, phrasing,
   primer, principia, principles, psycholinguistics, reader, rhetoric,
   rudiments, schoolbook, semantics, sociolinguistics, speech,
   speller, spelling book, structuralism, syntactics, t, talk, text,
   transformational linguistics, usage, use of words, usus loquendi,
   verbiage, wordage, wording, workbook




[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
grammar
     
        a formal definition of the syntactic structure of a language
        see syntax, normally given in terms of production rules
        which specify the order of constituents and their
        sub-constituents in a sentence a well-formed string in the
        language.  each rule has a left-hand side symbol naming a
        syntactic category e.g. "noun-phrase" for a natural
        language grammar and a right-hand side which is a sequence
        of zero or more symbols.  each symbol may be either a
        terminal symbol or a non-terminal symbol.  a terminal symbol
        corresponds to one "lexeme" - a part of the sentence with
        no internal syntactic structure e.g. an identifier or an
        operator in a computer language.  a non-terminal symbol is
        the left-hand side of some rule.
     
        one rule is normally designated as the top-level rule which
        gives the structure for a whole sentence.
     
        a grammar can be used either to parse a sentence see
        parser or to generate one.  parsing assigns a terminal
        syntactic category to each input token and a non-terminal
        category to each appropriate group of tokens, up to the level
        of the whole sentence.  parsing is usually preceded by
        lexical analysis.  generation starts from the top-level rule
        and chooses one alternative production wherever there is a
        choice.
     
        see also bnf, yacc, attribute grammar, grammar
        analysis.
     
     
see also:
syntax production rule sentence natural language terminal symbol lexeme 
parser lexical analysis bnf yacc attribute grammar 
grammar analysis 
[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
grammar, n.  a system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet
for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to
distinction.




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