{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "\u02c8\u0251rgj\u0259m\u0259nt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin arg\u016bmentum (\u201cargument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)\u201d), from arguere + -mentum (suffix indicating the instrument, medium, or result of something). Arguere is the present active infinitive of argu\u014d (\u201cto argue, assert, declare; to make clear, prove, show; to accuse, charge with, reprove; to blame, censure; to denounce as false\u201d), either ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h\u2082er\u01f5- (\u201csilver, white; glittering\u201d), or from Hittite (arkuw\u0101(i)-, \u201cto make a plea, state one\u2019s case\u201d). The English word is analysable as argue +\u200e -ment. Doublet of argumentum.\nDisplaced native Old English racu and \u0121eflit.", "The obsolete senses are derived from Middle English argumenten (\u201cto argue, discuss; to consider, reflect\u201d), from Old French argumenter (\u201cto argue\u201d), from Latin arg\u016bment\u0101r\u012b, the present active infinitive of arg\u016bmentor (\u201cto adduce arguments or proof, prove, reason; to adduce (something) as argument or proof; to conclude\u201d), from arg\u016bmentum (\u201cargument (for a position); evidence, proof; point, theme; thesis, topic; plot (in theatre)\u201d) (see further at etymology 1) + -or (the first-person singular present passive indicative of -\u014d (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).\nThe current sense is derived from the noun." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:argument", "submean": [ "(logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation." }, { "mean": "(countable) 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; (figuratively) the contents themselves." }, { "mean": "(countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:dispute\nThe neighbours got into an argument about the branches of the trees that extended over the fence." }, { "mean": "(by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.\nSteve got in a physical argument with his neighbor and came away with a black eye.\nWhile biking home, he got in an argument with the pavement." }, { "mean": "(countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause." }, { "mean": "(countable, mathematics)", "submean": [ "The independent variable of a function.", "The phase of a complex number.", "(also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.\nThe altitude is the argument of the refraction." ] }, { "mean": "(countable, programming)", "submean": [ "A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.\nSynonyms: actual argument, passed parameter\nParameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.", "A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter." ] }, { "mean": "(countable, obsolete)", "submean": [ "A matter in question; a business in hand.\n", "The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(uncountable, archaic) Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete, now nonstandard, non-native speakers' English) To put forward as an argument; to argue." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To adduce evidence, to provide proof." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "^ \u201carg\u016bment, n.\u201d, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan, 2007.\n\n ^ \u201cargument, n.\u201d, inOED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire Oxford University Press, March 2021; \u201cargument, n.\u201d, inLexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019\u20132022.\n\n ^ \u201carg\u016bmenten, v.\u201d, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan, 2007.\n\n ^ \u201c\u2020 argument, v.\u201d, inOED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire Oxford University Press, March 2021." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "argument on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n argument of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n argument (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n argument (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n argument (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \nargument at OneLook Dictionary Search\n\u201cargument\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201cargument\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G. C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\nargument in Britannica Dictionary\nargument in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary\nargument in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary\nargument in Ozdic collocation dictionary\nargument in WordReference English Collocations" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } }