'lexicalize' definitions:
Definition of 'lexicalize'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language; "The concept expressed by German `Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English" [syn: lexicalize, lexicalise]
Definition of 'lexicalize'
From: GCIDE
- lexicalize \lex"i*cal*ize\ (l[e^]ks"[i^]*kal*[imac]z), v. t.
- 1. To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. To increase the importance of, or emphasis on, words as opposed to other parts of a theory or program; -- said of grammatical theories and computer programs, especially programs for understanding language; as, lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar. [PJC]