filled pauseto stand for the thing itself, e.g. saying I got some new wheelsto refer to
purchasing an automobile), metonymy(using an associated word to refer
to something, for example, referring to the British monarchy as the Crown),
and simile(an expression in which something is compared to something
else by the use of a function wordsuch as likeor as(for example, Tom
eats like a horse)).
see also metaphorfilled pause n
see pausing
fillers n
expressions speakers use to create a delay or hesitation during conver-
sation, enabling them to carry on the conversation during times of
difficulty, e.g. “well”, “I mean”, “Actually”, “You know”, “Let me think”.
The use of fillers in second language communication is an aspect of strategic
competence.
see pausing
final adj
occurring at the end of a linguistic unit, e.g. word final, clause final.
For example, a group of consonants at the end of a word such as st in the
English word list is called a final consonant cluster.
see also initial, medial, syllable
final e n
also silent e
the spelling pattern in English in which when e is the last letter in a word it
is not pronounced, as in bite, late.Final e often signals a long vowel sound
for the preceding vowel letter.
final intake n
see intake
finger spelling n
a kind of signing behaviour (see sign language) which has been developed
to help hearing-impaired persons communicate. Finger spelling provides a
manual alphabet which is used to spell out words using the fingers.
finite verb n
a form of a verb which is marked to show that it is related to a subject in
personand/or number, and which shows tense^1. A non-finite verbform