FromAncient Greekἰδιωματικός(idiōmatikós,“related to an idiom”), fromἰδίωμα(idíōma,“idiom”).
idiomatic (comparativemoreidiomatic,superlativemostidiomatic)
- Pertaining or conforming toidiom, the natural mode ofexpression of a language.
The inclusion or omission of definite articles followsidiomatic norms in each language and depends on context and intent.
In English, the onlyidiomatic position for a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb is before the particle, whereas a noun as object can fall either before or after the particle; thus onlyhe picked them up but eitherhe picked his tools up orhe picked up his tools.
- Resembling or characteristic of anidiom.
- Using manyidioms.
- (music) Relating to parts orpieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of theinstrument and humanbody and, less so or less often, thestyles ofplaying used on specific instruments.
- (programming) Following the conventions of the language, or doing things in the common way for the language, rather than code that is ported from another language and therefore may not follow the common conventions.
pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language
resembling or characteristic of an idiom
parts or pieces of or styles of playing music
idiomatic (pluralidiomatics)
- Synonym ofidiom.
2003, Thiery Dutoit, Yannis Stylianou, “Text-to-Speech Synthesis”, in Ruslan Mitkov, editor,The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics[1], Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page325:A preprocessing (ortext normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, andidiomatics in any format.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idiomatic”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “idiomatic”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromFrenchidiomatique. Equivalent toidiom +-atic.
idiomatic m orn (feminine singularidiomatică,masculine pluralidiomatici,feminine/neuter pluralidiomatice)
- idiomatic
