From en.wiktionary.org:
[Argument]
** English
[2021]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] [en] From [en],[1] from [en] and [en], from [en].[2] The English word is
analysable as [en]. [en].
Displaced native [ang] and [ang].
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A fact or statement use d to support a proposition ; a reason .
2. * [chapter= 吴语: Psalms 104. 24. _How Manifold are thy Works O Lord? In Wisdom hast thou made them all._]
3. * [chapter=Stubb’s Supper]
1. [en] A series of propositions organize d so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intend ed to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premise s.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] A process of reasoning ; argumentation .
5. * [reprint=1875]
6. * [chapter=Of the Remedies of the foregoing Imperfections and Abuses]
7. * [volume=II]
8. * [en]
9. [en] An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book , a poem or a major section such as a chapter , included in the work before the content itself; [en] the contents themselves.
10. * [act=II]
11. [en] A verbal dispute ; a quarrel .
12. * [act=III]
13. * [book=Samson Agonistes]
14. [en] Any dispute , altercation , or collision .
15. * [en]
16. [en] [en] Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause .
17. * [en]
18. [en]
1. The independent variable of a function .
2. The phase of a complex number .
3. [en] A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depend s.
19. [en]
1. A value , or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
2. A parameter at a function call ; an actual parameter , as oppose d to a formal parameter .
20. [en]
1. A matter in question ; a business in hand .
2. * [act=I]
3. * [act=III]
4. The subject matter of an artistic representation , discourse , or writing ; a theme or topic .
5. * [chapter=Preface]
6. * [version=Q2]
7. * [sonnet=76]
8. * [book=VI]
9.. * [en]
21. [en] Evidence , proof ; [en] an item of such evidence or proof.
22. * [act=II]
***** Usage notes
see Thesaurus:false, Thesaurus:stupid, Thesaurus:deceptive
- [parameter at a function call] some authors regard the use of _argument_ to mean “formal parameter” to be imprecise, preferring that _argument_ be used to refer only to the value that is used to instantiate the _parameter_ at runtime, while _parameter_ refers only to the name in the function definition that will be instantiated.
***** Alternative forms
- [en]
***** Meronyms
- [logic] [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |argument from ignorance|argument from illusion|argument from
silence|argument-form|circular argument|diagonal argument|homunculus
argument|misargument|mud pie argument|opening argument|oral argument|position
argument|pseudoargument|private language argument|see an argument|sticky bead
argument|violinist argument|doomsday argument|Doomsday
argument|non-argument|pseudo-argument |argumentable |argumental|regress
argument|regressive argument |argumentation |argumentative |argumentatively
|argumentativeness |argument form |argument from design |argumentive
|argumentize |argumentless |cosmological argument |etymological argument
|ontological argument |teleological argument| argument mining|Lucas-Penrose
argument|Penrose-Lucas argument|Quine-Putnam indispensability
argument|argumentary|argumenthood|counterargument|midargument|multiargument|nonargument|reargument|sargable
}}
***** Related terms
{{col3|en |arguable |arguably |argue |arguendo |arguer |argufier |argufy
|arguing<pos:noun> |argumentator |argumentum }}
***** Collocations
[2]
- [en]
[col-bottom]
***** Translations
[fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw] , [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gullah: [gul]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky] [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Malay: [ms]
- Mari:
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] ( [vi] )
[trans-bottom]
[verbal dispute; a quarrel]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] [he] [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Latin: [la]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Ecuador] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[process of reasoning]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] [Taraškievica] , [be] , [be] [Taraškievica]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[independent variable]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] [nominalized adjective]
[trans-bottom]
[variable that is being passed to a function]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] [nominalized adjective]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
[trans-bottom]
[subject or matter]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
The obsolete senses are derived from [en],[3] from [en], from [en], from [la]
(see further at etymology 1)[4] + [la] (the [first-person] [singular] present
[passive] [indicative] of [la]).
The current sense is derived from the [noun].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To put forward as an argument ; to argue .
2. * [chapter=Of the Elephant]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * [chapter=XIX]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. * [en]
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. [en] To adduce evidence , to provide proof .
13. * [en]
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
*** References
References:
[1]. [entry=argūment]
[2]. [pos=n] ; [pos=n]
[3]. [entry=argūmenten]
[4]. [entry=† argument]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [argument of a function]
- [argument (literature)]
- [argument (linguistics)]
- [argument (disambiguation)]
- [R:OneLook]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Britannica Dictionary]
- [R:Macmillan Collocations]
- [R:Cambridge Collocations]
- [R:Ozdic]
- [R:WordReference Collocations]
[en]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
[ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [n/]
- [ca]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] (reason)
2. [ca] [en]
3. plot , storyline
4. [ca] [en]
5. [ca] [en]
**** Related terms
- [ca]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
[ca]
** Czech
[lang=cs]
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [en] [fact or statement used to support a proposition]
**** Declension
[m.locu:ě]
**** Derived terms
[cs]
**** Related terms
[cs]
**** See also
- [cs]
*** Further reading
- [R:cs:PSJC]
- [R:cs:SSJC]
- [R:cs:IJP]
** Danish
*** Noun
[et]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[et]
**** Related terms
- [da]
*** References
- [R:Den Danske Ordbog]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl], from [nl], from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[n]
1. an [en] [fact or statement used to support a proposition]
1. [nl] a series of proposition s, intended so that the conclusion follows logically from the premise s
2. [nl] an [en] [independent variable of a function]
3. [nl] an [en] [value or reference passed to a function]
4. [nl] an [en] [any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause]
5. [nl] a decision
6. [nl] a subject matter , theme or topic
7. [nl] a quarrel , a dispute , an argument
**** Derived terms
{{col|nl |autoriteitsargument |deelargument |gelegenheidsargument
|hoofdargument |onderargument |subargument |superargument }}
**** Related terms
{{col|nl |argumentatie |argumentatief |argumenteren }}
**** Descendants
- [af]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. argument
2. [fr] argument of a verb , phrase syntactically connected to a verb ( object and subject )
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
**** Related terms
- [fr]
**** See also
- [grammar] [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Maltese
*** Etymology
[mt].
*** Pronunciation
- [mt]
- [mt]
*** Noun
[g=m]
1. argument
**** Related terms
[mt]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-n3]
1. [en]
**** Related terms
- [nb]
- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Alternative forms
- [nn]
*** Etymology
From [nn].
*** Pronunciation
- [nn]
- [nn]
*** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. [en]
**** Related terms
- [nn]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-argument.ogg]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] point , [en] [fact or statement used to support a proposition]
2. [pl] [en]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
**** Derived terms
[pl] [pl] [pl]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro], from [ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Pronunciation
- [sh]
- [sh]
*** Noun
[argùment]
1. [en] (fact or statement used to support a proposition)
2. [sh] [en]
**** Declension
{{sh-decl-noun |argument|argumenti |argumenta|argumenata
|argumentu|argumentima |argument|argumente |argumente|argumenti
|argumentu|argumentima |argumentom|argumentima }}
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv]
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[n]
1. an [en] supporting a stance
2. [sv] an argument; an independent variable passed to a function
3. [sv] an argument; a variable passed to a function
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-n-zero]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
- [sv]