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Obelisk (graph.): a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.

خنجرية (مو)

Object (gramm.): anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.

مفعول به

Observation(ling.): an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.

رصد

Occidental(comm..): pertaining to, or characteristic of the Occident or its natives and inhabitants.

لغة الاكسيدينتال

Occlusion(phon.): the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.

انسداد                            

Occlusive(phon.): a stop that is unreleased, as the p-sound in stop, or deviously released, as the k-sound in acme, acne, or action, the t-sound of catnip, the g-sound of pygmy or ugly.

انسدادي

Octameter(phoet): consisting of eight measures or feet.

ثماني التفاعيل

Octave(poet): a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone.

ثمانية

Octet(poet): a company of eight singers or musicians.

ثمانية

Octosyllable(poet): a word or line of verse of eight syllables.

مثمن المقاطع

Off glide: a transitional sound produced as the vocal organs move from a previous speech sound to an inactive position or to the position of a following sound.

استرخاء

Official Language: a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other territory. Typically a nation's official language will be the one used in that nation's courts, parliament and administration.

لغة رسمية

Officialese: a style of language used in some official statements, often criticized for its use of polysyllabic jargon and obscure, pretentiously wordy phrasing.

اسلوب الرسميين

Omission: something left out or not done.

اسقاط

On Glide: a transitional sound produced by the vocal organs in moving from an inactive position or a previous sound to the articulatory position necessary for producing a following sound.

استعداد

Onomasiology: the study of the means of expressing a given concept.

أسمائية

Onomasticon: a list or collection of proper names.

معجم

Onomatology: the since of the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.

اسمائية

Onomastics (sem.): the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.

أسمائية

Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.

محاكاة الصوت

Ontogeny: the development or developmental history of an individual organism.

تطورية فرديج

Onset (phon.): a beginning or start: the onset of winter.

استهلال

Ontogeny: the development or developmental history of an individual organism.

تطور لغة الفرد

Open class(ling.): an open class (or open word class) is a word class that accepts the addition of new items, through such processes as compounding, derivation, coining, borrowing, etc. Typical open word classes are nouns, verbs and adjectives.

صنف مفتوح

Open position: the arrangement of a chord with wide intervals between the parts.

وضع الاتساع

Open question: An unresolved issue, one that has not been finally determined. For example, Whether the town should pave all the unpaved roads remains an open question. In the mid-1800s this term acquired a specific meaning in the British Parliament, that is, "an issue on which members may vote independently, without respect to their party affiliation."

سؤال مفتوح

Open set: a set U is called open if, intuitively speaking, starting from any point x in U one can move by a small amount in any direction and still be in the set U. In other words, the distance between any point x in U and the edge of U is always greater than zero.

قائمة مفتوحة

Open system: a region separated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits a transfer of matter or energy across it.

نظام مفتوح

Open vowel: An open vowel is a vowel sound of a type used in most spoken languages.

صائت متسع

Opening: an act or instance of making or becoming open.

انفتاح

Operant: operating; producing effects.

محدث

Operator: a person who operatessomthing.

محدث

Opposition: the action of opposing, resisting, or combating

تقابل

Oracy: the ability to express oneself in and understand spoken language.

مهارة نطقية

Oral: uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.

فموي

Oral cavity: the cavity of the mouth; especially : the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above bythe hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible.

تجويف فمي

Oralism: the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.

نطقية

Order: an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.

نسق

Ordering: the way of organizing.

ترتيب

Ordinal number: Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number ).

عدد ترتيبي

Origin of language: a topic that has attracted considerable attention throughout human history.

اصل اللغة

Orismology: the science of defining the technical or special terms of a particular subject or field of study.

مصطلحاتية

Orthoepy: the study of correct pronunciation.

علم اللفظ

Orthography: the art of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; correct spelling.

علم الاملاء

Orthotone: Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.

منبور سياقي

Oscillograph: a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.

مرسم الذبذبات

Oscilloscope: a device that uses a cathode-ray tube or similar instrument to depict on a screen periodic changes in an electric quantity, as voltage or current.

مرسم الذبذبات

Otiose: being at leisure; idle; indolent.

زائد

Otology: the science of the ear and its diseases.

علم امراض الاذن

Outer ear: the outer portion of the ear, consisting of the auricle and the canal extending to the tympanic membrane.

الاذن الخارجية

Out put(app.): to produce; turn out.

مخرج

Overcorrection: correction beyond what is needed or customary, esp. when leading to error; overadjustment: The pilot made an overcorrection for headwinds.

تصحيح زائد

Overextension: to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.

تعميم زائد

Overgeneralization: the process of extending the application of a rule to items that are excluded from it in the language norm, as when a child uses the regular past tense verb ending -ed of forms like I walked to produce forms like *I goed or *I rided.

تعميم زائد

Opacity (sem.): the state or quality of being opaque.

 كمدة

Overlapping: to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.

تداخل

Overlaps: to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.

معان متداخلة

Overtone: an acoustical frequency that is higher in frequency than the fundamental.

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