Catena is an English word with synonyms like chain or concatenation. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Catena meaning
- A series of related items.
- A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
Synonyms of Catena
Using Catena
- The main meaning on this page is: A series of related items. | A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
- Useful related words include: chain, concatenation.
- In the example corpus, catena often appears in combinations such as: catena and, tom catena, della catena.
Context around Catena
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Catena
- In this selection, "catena" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tom, pat, alessandro, based, zapata and commentaries stand out and add context to how "catena" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 5 tom catena who is and alessandro catena s hyper. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "catena" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with catena
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For a definition of the catena and discussion, see Osborne and Groß (2012:173ff.). (14 words)
A caveat concerning the catena-based analysis of idioms concerns their status in the lexicon. (15 words)
The catena-based analysis of idioms provides a basis for an understanding of meaning compositionality. (15 words)
On June 5 Tom Catena, who is the only surgeon treating people in the Nuba Mountains, will arrive in the town of Sisian, in Armenia’s southern Zangezur region, where he will stop over in the Garrison hospital to meet fellow doctors. (42 words)
Council President Pat Catena, D-Carnegie, said there are provisions the county can use, like the Homestead Exemption, to ensure that longtime homeowners and seniors are not hit with big tax increases that would push them out of their homes. (40 words)
The dependency grammar trees of a few sentences containing non-constituent idioms illustrate the point: :: Idiom trees 1' The fixed words of the idiom (in orange) in each case are linked together by dependencies; they form a catena. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Council President Pat Catena, D-Carnegie, said there are provisions the county can use, like the Homestead Exemption, to ensure that longtime homeowners and seniors are not hit with big tax increases that would push them out of their homes.
New Delhi, Jan 13: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a catena of directions in relation to the grant of compensation in hit and run motor accidents cases.
Alessandro Catena's hyper-realistic pencil portrait of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman is a throwback to season 3 when Walter and the aforementioned dealer commenced cooking up a storm at Gus Fring's behest.
Billy Lee was among the winners again on the all-weather at Dundalk on Wednesday where he partnered the Henry de Bromhead-trained Catena Zapata to land the two-year-old conditions’ race over a mile.
Catena and Cordova said the OEO keeps a database of people who have had complaints and sustained findings against them.
Catena and Sister Nyakuru both work at Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, which Bishop Gassis founded in 2008.
Karabakh President receives “Aurora” prize laureate Tom CatenaPresident welcomed Tom Catena’s decision to visit Artsakh.
On June 5 Tom Catena, who is the only surgeon treating people in the Nuba Mountains, will arrive in the town of Sisian, in Armenia’s southern Zangezur region, where he will stop over in the Garrison hospital to meet fellow doctors.
The most famous of them were Dr. Tom and Sister Angelina,” Hilu said, referring to Dr. Tom Catena, a U.S. lay missionary, and Sister Angelina Nyakuru, a Ugandan Comboni sister and nurse.
A caveat concerning the catena-based analysis of idioms concerns their status in the lexicon.
After the defeat and death of Magnentius in the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, Constantius II dispatched his chief imperial notary Paulus Catena to Britain to hunt down Magnentius's supporters.
A huge chain was used to block La Cala with the other end at S Maria della Catena (St Mary of the Chain).
Any word or any combination of words that are linked together by dependencies qualifies as a catena.
A relatively recent (1998) development in the syntactic analysis of idioms departs from a constituent-based account of syntactic structure, preferring instead the catena -based account.
For a definition of the catena and discussion, see Osborne and Groß (2012:173ff.).
The catena-based analysis of idioms provides a basis for an understanding of meaning compositionality.
The catenae for example Gomul Catena are long chains of impact craters lined up in straight lines across the surface.
The dependency grammar trees of a few sentences containing non-constituent idioms illustrate the point: :: Idiom trees 1' The fixed words of the idiom (in orange) in each case are linked together by dependencies; they form a catena.
The following two trees illustrate proverbs: :: Idiom trees 2 The fixed words of the proverbs (in orange) again form a catena each time.
The majority of them are known to us only from long portions quoted in Byzantine catena-commentaries.
Common combinations with catena
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: