Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Agreement; concord.
- noun An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word.
- noun Genetics The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, concord or consonance in the technical sense of these words: opposed to dissonance or discord.
- noun The state of being concordant; agreement; harmony.
- noun The knowledge concerning the sympathies and concordances between the mind and body.
- noun In grammar, concord.
- noun A classified collection of the different passages of a work, as of the Bible or the plays of Shakspere, with references to the places of their occurrence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Agreement; accordance.
- noun (Gram.), obsolete Concord; agreement.
- noun An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
- noun A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
agreement ;accordance ;consonance - noun grammar, obsolete
concord ; agreement. - noun An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
- noun computational linguistics a list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a
corpus , with the immediate context.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun agreement of opinions
- noun an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
- noun a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
Etymologies
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Examples
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Notice how my work is being presented as being in concordance with ID when Meyer knows very well where I stand on this issue.
The Memory Hole 2005
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There is a 4th digit in the concordance, which is usually 0.
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A concordance is a book that lists every time a word appears in the Bible.
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Junta CM, Mello SS, Garcia PS, Rassi DM, et al. (2007) Profiling meta-analysis reveals primarily gene coexpression concordance between systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gang Wu et al. 2010
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A concordance is a detailed index of all or most of the words in a literary work or in the collected works of an author.
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Charles Arthur of The Guardian published a "concordance" of the search terms the thieves used to gather up and select CRU emails.
Evidence of adverse editorial selection by the CRU Email theives EliRabett 2010
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The term "concordance" applied to twins refers to a condition common to both twins.
Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness 2009
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They then compared the "concordance" of identical twins (in how many pairs both got or escaped cancer) with the concordance in fraternal twins.
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He demands a Biblical concordance which is in folio.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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According to Strong’s exhaustive concordance, the Hebrew word for devils is sa’iyr, and it translates “shaggy,” as in a “he-goat.”
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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What a dance!
June 25, 2011