--- title: S — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 126 description: The 2316 words of the English dictionary under S, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/126/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / S # S — The English dictionary · page 126 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* (UK informal, teasing) A swot is a pupil who studies very hard, sometimes said in a mocking way.[↗](../../swot/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK informal) To swot or swot up is to study hard, especially before a test.[↗](../../swot/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* SWOT (capitals) is short for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, a way to plan or judge an idea in business or school projects.[↗](../../swot/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She's a swot and always does extra homework.[↗](../../swot/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I need to swot up on my times tables.[↗](../../swot/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He spent the weekend swotting for his test.[↗](../../swot/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't call people swots for working hard.[↗](../../swot/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We did a SWOT analysis of our school fair plan.[↗](../../swot/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Being a swot paid off when she won the quiz.[↗](../../swot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sycamore** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (UK, Ireland) A large maple tree with five-pointed leaves and winged seeds that spin like helicopters as they fall.[↗](../../sycamore/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (USA, Canada) A tall plane tree with bark that peels off in patches of white, green and brown.[↗](../../sycamore/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (Bible) A kind of fig tree in the Middle East; in the story of Zacchaeus, a short man climbs a sycamore to see Jesus.[↗](../../sycamore/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The pale wood of these trees, used for furniture and kitchen spoons.[↗](../../sycamore/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We threw sycamore seeds from the bridge and watched them spin down.[↗](../../sycamore/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The sycamore in the playground gives lots of shade in summer.[↗](../../sycamore/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In autumn the sycamore leaves turn yellow and fall.[↗](../../sycamore/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sycamores along the river in Ohio have white, patchy bark.[↗](../../sycamore/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Zacchaeus was too short to see over the crowd, so he climbed a sycamore tree.[↗](../../sycamore/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My wooden spoon is made of sycamore.[↗](../../sycamore/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Seeds with wings, like the sycamore's, can travel far from the parent tree.[↗](../../sycamore/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.[↗](../../sycamore/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.78.47, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sycamore/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 'The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but cedars will we put in their place.'[↗](../../sycamore/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.9.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sycamore/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance.[↗](../../sycamore/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.10.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sycamore/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **sycophancy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal) Sycophancy is flattering and agreeing with an important or powerful person too much, to please them and get something for yourself.[↗](../../sycophancy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* For computers and AI, sycophancy means a chatbot telling people what they want to hear instead of what is true.[↗](../../sycophancy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The king's advisers were full of sycophancy and never told him bad news.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · His sycophancy towards the head teacher annoyed the class.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Sycophancy is not real friendship.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The AI's sycophancy meant it agreed with every wrong answer.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the play, the servant's sycophancy hides his plan to steal.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Honest feedback is better than sycophancy.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She rejected the sycophancy of people who only liked her money.[↗](../../sycophancy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **sycophantic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sycophantic means praising and agreeing with a powerful or important person too much, in a fake way, to get something from them.[↗](../../sycophantic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sycophantic servants told the king every idea he had was brilliant.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · His sycophantic praise of the boss made everyone cringe.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't be sycophantic; give your honest opinion.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the fable, the fox's sycophantic words tricked the crow into dropping the cheese.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The emperor's sycophantic advisers praised his invisible clothes.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A good friend tells you the truth, not sycophantic flattery.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The film's villain was surrounded by sycophantic followers.[↗](../../sycophantic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **syllabary** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A set of written signs in which each sign stands for a whole syllable, not a single sound.[↗](../../syllabary/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Did it spring from the Egyptian liioro- fflyphics, or from the cuneiform systems of the Assyrians, or from the hieroglyphics of the Hittites, or from the Syllabary (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../syllabary/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **syllabic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Syllabic means about syllables, the beats or sound parts that words are divided into.[↗](../../syllabic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "hap-py" has two syllables.[↗](../../syllabic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A syllabic writing system (a syllabary) uses one symbol for each syllable, like Japanese kana or the Cherokee syllabary.[↗](../../syllabic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (phonetics) A syllabic sound, like the "n" in "button" or "l" in "bottle", makes a syllable on its own without a vowel.[↗](../../syllabic/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Japanese hiragana is a syllabic script.[↗](../../syllabic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We clapped the syllabic beats of our names.[↗](../../syllabic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A haiku has a strict syllabic pattern: 5, 7, 5.[↗](../../syllabic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Cherokee leader Sequoyah invented a syllabic writing system.[↗](../../syllabic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In "bottle", the final l is syllabic.[↗](../../syllabic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Syllabic poems count syllables, not stresses.[↗](../../syllabic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Breaking a long word into syllabic parts helps you spell it.[↗](../../syllabic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The purpose of the author was to e ..pliiisizc the superiority of alphabetic writing over the non-alphabetic writing (ideographic and syllabic) used by all the nations of antiquity, and even now by a great portion of mankind.[↗](../../syllabic/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../syllabic/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **syllable** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A syllable is a part of a word that has one vowel sound; you can count syllables by clapping a word: «di-no-saur» has three syllables.[↗](../../syllable/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A word with one syllable, like «cat», is called a one-syllable word or monosyllable.[↗](../../syllable/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Not a syllable means not a single word at all.[↗](../../syllable/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Elephant» has three syllables: el-e-phant.[↗](../../syllable/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Clap the syllables in your name.[↗](../../syllable/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · «Dog» has one syllable.[↗](../../syllable/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A haiku has five syllables in the first line.[↗](../../syllable/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In «banana», the middle syllable is stressed.[↗](../../syllable/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Break long words into syllables to spell them.[↗](../../syllable/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · «Hippopotamus» has five syllables.[↗](../../syllable/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He did not answer a syllable, but went on eating, and afterwards returned to his work.[↗](../../syllable/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **symbiotic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) Symbiotic describes a close relationship between two different kinds of living things that live together, especially one where both are helped: bees and flowers, clownfish and sea anemones.[↗](../../symbiotic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Symbiotic also describes any relationship between people, groups or things that help each other.[↗](../../symbiotic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "The farm and the village had a symbiotic relationship."[↗](../../symbiotic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Clownfish and sea anemones have a symbiotic relationship.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our gut has symbiotic bacteria that help digest food.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A lichen is a symbiotic partnership of a fungus and an alga.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Bees and flowers are symbiotic: bees get food, flowers get pollinated.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop and the café next door have a symbiotic relationship.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Cleaner fish eat parasites from bigger fish in a symbiotic deal.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Coral lives in a symbiotic relationship with tiny algae.[↗](../../symbiotic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **symbol** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A symbol is a sign, shape or picture that stands for something else: + means add, a red heart means love.[↗](../../symbol/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A symbol can be an object or idea that represents something bigger: the dove is a symbol of peace.[↗](../../symbol/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In science, a chemical symbol is the short letter name for an element.[↗](../../symbol/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* O for oxygen.[↗](../../symbol/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The symbol + means add.[↗](../../symbol/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The \< symbol means «less than»: 3 \< 5.[↗](../../symbol/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · On the map, a blue P is the symbol for parking.[↗](../../symbol/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A skull and crossbones is a symbol for poison.[↗](../../symbol/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The dove is a symbol of peace.[↗](../../symbol/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The chemical symbol for gold is Au.[↗](../../symbol/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The maple leaf is a symbol of Canada.[↗](../../symbol/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Look at the key to find out what each symbol means.[↗](../../symbol/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Thus running up the hillside, his teeth chattering all the way, he drew near to Inyan, the sacred symbol.[↗](../../symbol/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Elsewhere in the SY, the ‘tongue’ (or ‘wedge’) appears as the symbol of a central balance between two extremities, e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../symbol/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence.[↗](../../symbol/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../symbol/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · or does exist outside of Himself ; His substance is the foundation of all, and all things bear His imprint and are symbols of His intelligence."[↗](../../symbol/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../symbol/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Like the symbols of their sons are their altars, and their Asherim are by the leafy trees, upon the high hills.[↗](../../symbol/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.17.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../symbol/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **symbolic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Symbolic means standing for an idea or thing as a sign or symbol: a dove is symbolic of peace.[↗](../../symbolic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Symbolic also describes an action done to show feelings or ideas rather than for practical use: a symbolic gesture.[↗](../../symbolic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (maths) Symbolic means using letters and signs instead of words.[↗](../../symbolic/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dove is symbolic of peace.[↗](../../symbolic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Red roses are symbolic of love.[↗](../../symbolic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · For Christians, the cross is symbolic of Jesus's death and love.[↗](../../symbolic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Planting a tree was a symbolic act for the school.[↗](../../symbolic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the dark forest is symbolic of fear.[↗](../../symbolic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In maths we use symbolic notation, like x + 3 = 7.[↗](../../symbolic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The handshake was a symbolic end to the quarrel.[↗](../../symbolic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Lieutenant, love, and lack of money--that is a symbolic triangle, or much the same as the half of the shattered die of Fortune.[↗](../../symbolic/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The appearance of this root in the SY’s introductory paragraph serves as a reminder that although we embark upon a text rich in vivid, grounded symbolism—even anthropomorphism—we should not hasten to take such symbolic language overly literally.[↗](../../symbolic/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../symbolic/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · It is unclear if the author or editor of this section is employing Hebrew terms in a novel way, is unfamiliar with human physiology, or is using animal organs to some symbolic effect, or some combination thereof.[↗](../../symbolic/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../symbolic/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **symbolically** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Symbolically means in a way that uses a symbol to stand for an idea, rather than in a real or practical way.[↗](../../symbolically/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In maths, symbolically means using signs and letters, like + and x, instead of words.[↗](../../symbolically/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dove symbolically stands for peace.[↗](../../symbolically/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · At the end of the year we symbolically handed the class key to the next year group.[↗](../../symbolically/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · (church) In baptism, water symbolically washes the person clean.[↗](../../symbolically/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the dark forest symbolically shows the girl's fear.[↗](../../symbolically/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We wrote the problem symbolically as 3 × n = 12.[↗](../../symbolically/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Planting a tree was a symbolically important start for the new school.[↗](../../symbolically/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · This idea is then symbolically explained in the next paragraph.[↗](../../symbolically/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../symbolically/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **symbolism** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The use of symbols to stand for ideas or qualities.[↗](../../symbolism/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Nonetheless, English translators have usually shied away from the this-worldly symbolism of the ‘Holy Wind’, much preferring immaterial ‘Spirit’ either out of theological embarrassment or deference to tradition.[↗](../../symbolism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../symbolism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The appearance of this root in the SY’s introductory paragraph serves as a reminder that although we embark upon a text rich in vivid, grounded symbolism—even anthropomorphism—we should not hasten to take such symbolic language overly literally.[↗](../../symbolism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../symbolism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **symbolization** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The act of showing an idea by means of a symbol.[↗](../../symbolization/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The numeral one 1 and the zero 0 are a fitting symbolization of the two opposing principles concerning which the Sefer Yetzirah iv\> "23) says as follows: (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../symbolization/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Thus, the Sefer Yetzirah may have believed two di- bits, 0 and j , a tilting symbolization of the creation, out of chaos or nothing, of the universe, by the power of the Deity.[↗](../../symbolization/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../symbolization/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **symbolize** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To symbolize is to stand for an idea or thing, so that it means something more than itself.[↗](../../symbolize/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To symbolize is to be a sign of something: a dove can symbolize peace.[↗](../../symbolize/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A red heart can symbolize love.[↗](../../symbolize/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The dove symbolizes peace.[↗](../../symbolize/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The hour-glass symbolizes time passing.[↗](../../symbolize/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Many Kabalists have shown how the Ten Sephiruth are symbolized by the zig-zag lightning flash.[↗](../../symbolize/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../symbolize/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The twelve simple letters ה״ו״ז ח״ט״י ל״נ״ם ע״צ״ק symbolize, as it were, the organs of speaking, thinking, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../symbolize/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Seven \[34\] double letters, ,בגד כפרת shall, as it were, symbolize wisdom, wealth, fruitfulness, life, dominion, peace and beauty.[↗](../../symbolize/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../symbolize/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **symmetry** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Symmetry is the state of having two halves that match exactly, or of being balanced in shape or form.[↗](../../symmetry/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Symmetry in a person means a pleasing, even shape of the body.[↗](../../symmetry/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A butterfly's wings show symmetry.[↗](../../symmetry/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The square has four lines of symmetry.[↗](../../symmetry/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She was perfect in her symmetry and proportions.[↗](../../symmetry/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **sympathetic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sympathetic means showing that you understand and care about someone's sadness or problems: a sympathetic friend.[↗](../../sympathetic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Sympathetic to an idea or group means agreeing with it or supporting it.[↗](../../sympathetic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A sympathetic character in a story is one readers like and care about.[↗](../../sympathetic/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The nurse was very sympathetic when I hurt my arm.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My friends were sympathetic when my cat died.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The head teacher is sympathetic to our idea for a garden.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The hero is a sympathetic character because he is brave and kind.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave me a sympathetic smile.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Not everyone was sympathetic to his complaints.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · But, when the two heroes met face to face, both were seized with an impulse of sympathetic admiration for each other.[↗](../../sympathetic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/124/) [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/125/) **126** 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