| HEME | • heme n. (Biochemistry) The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen… • HEME n. a component of hemoglobin, also HAEM. |
| RHEME | • rheme n. (Linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme. • rheme n. (Peircean semiotics) A sign that represents its object in respect of quality and so, in its signified… • RHEME n. the constituent of a sentence that adds the most new information. |
| THEME | • theme n. A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. • theme n. A recurring idea; a motif. • theme n. (Dated) An essay written for school. |
| SCHEME | • scheme n. (Rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words. • scheme n. (Astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event. • scheme n. A systematic plan of future action. |
| NONHEME | • nonheme adj. That does not originate in heme. • NONHEME adj. not containing iron bound like heme. |
| GRAPHEME | • grapheme n. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet… • grapheme n. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme. • GRAPHEME n. a unit of a writing system. |
| MORPHEME | • morpheme n. (Linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. • MORPHEME n. a word or part of a word that contains no smaller unit of meaning e.g. 'man' or the 'ed' in 'walked'. |
| SUBTHEME | • subtheme n. A specific theme within a larger theme. • SUBTHEME n. a subordinate theme. |
| BLASPHEME | • blaspheme v. (Intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine. • blaspheme v. (Transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred). • blaspheme v. (Transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. |
| OUTSCHEME | • outscheme v. (Transitive) To surpass in scheming. • OUTSCHEME v. to surpass in scheming. |
| TELEPHEME | • telepheme n. (Obsolete) A message transmitted by telephone. • TELEPHEME n. a message by a telephone. |
| PHONESTHEME | • phonestheme n. (Linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable… |