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combining form

NOUN
  1. a bound form used only in compounds
    `hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'

How To Use combining form In A Sentence

  • The combining form 'Anglo', which means English, combines to make various words, including Anglo-American and Anglophile.
  • `proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages
  • Coinage: software, the opposite of “hard” with the combining form -ware. No Uncertain Terms
  • By combining formal knowledge with real world experience and new ideas or perspectives, the construction of new knowledge occurs.
  • `neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'
  • Using the -burger combining form, we come up with cheeseburger and now veggieburger, with a score of variations in between. No Uncertain Terms
  • `hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'
  • Increasingly, he is intent on inventing new structures, combining forms that are right-angled and curved, solid and open, linear and planar, volumetric and void.
  • As an aside, telethon is one of those odd blends in which two combining forms, prefix and suffix, have been borrowed from separate words and jammed together, extinguishing any root word.
  • The language of ancient poem has its unique combining form which has the aesthetic feature of against the normal form, the character of non-practical, non-scientific and non-definite.
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