1. An targetivematerial is a compound noun or adjective in which the first element is a noun and the second element is a expose participle, spoken noun, or agent noun, and which can be rewritten as a term in which the first element is the object of the verb underlying the second element.

• Delicious chocolate n. and you can adj. contains a compounds section with the heading ‘Objective’. The compounds listed there include chocolate lover (a person who loves chocolate), chocolate maker (a person who makes chocolate), chocolate making (the action or process of making chocolate), and chocolate seller (a person who sells chocolate).

• PRAYER n. 1 contains a compounds section with the heading ‘Objective’. The compounds listed there include prayer-answering (that answers prayers), prayer-hearing­ (that hears prayers), and prayer-inventor (a person who invents prayers).

[It sense of mission is employed in the unrevised OED records and when you look at the records revised prior to 2019. C1b: “With verbal nouns, representative nouns, and you may participles, building ingredients in which cockle conveys the item of your root verb, as with cockle get together, cockle picker, etcetera.; cockle-dinner, cockle-selecting, an such like., adjs.”]

optative

The newest optative is actually an application used to show like to or interest. Such, ‘A lot of time real time the new Queen!’ has optative definition, saying this new would you like to that King have a tendency to alive for some time time.

• Rot v. 6 is defined as ‘In imprecations or expressions of irritation or impatience, chiefly in optative subple is ‘God rot the lot of them!’, which has the sense ‘I wish that God would rot the lot of them!’

parasynthetic

A parasynthetic compound is one created by two or more processes of word formation operating together. In English, it usually denotes an adjective formed using both compounding and derivation.

• Most parasynthetic adjectives in English are of the form ‘X-Yed’, co to jest firstmet where X is an adjective, Y is a noun, and the suffix-ed means ‘having or provided with –‘; the suffix applies to the entire adjective + noun compound, and not just to the noun to which it is attached. For example, Black colored adj. has a unique uses section with the heading ‘Parasynthetic’, containing adjectives such as black-haired. Black-haired is formed from the compound black hair and the suffix -ed, and means ‘having black hair’. Further examples of this type are brown-eyed, long-armed, high-backed.
• The first element can also be a noun (e.g. in balloon-shaped, ‘having a balloon shape’, and rosewood-coloured, ‘having a rosewood colour’) or an adverb (e.g. in strongly-legged, ‘having strong legs’).

[The word parasynthetic is utilized during the unrevised OED entries and also in records modified in advance of 2019. Records or components of entries modified given that 2019 play with detailed text, as for example at the Easy adj. C1: “Forming adjectives towards feel ‘who’s (a) simple -‘, by combining with an effective noun + -ed, as with simple-attired, simple-went, simple-natured, simple-toothed, simple-witted, etcetera.”]

parenthetical | parenthetically

A parenthetical word, phrase, or clause is inserted into a sentence as an explanation or afterthought, and is usually marked off by brackets, commas, or dashes. Such a word, phrase, or clause is said to be used parenthetically.

• GASP int. is defined as ‘Used parenthetically to express mock horror, shock, surprise, dismay, etc.’ The illustrative quotations include uses of gasp inside brackets, e.g. ‘Let’s examine this point in the context of (gasp!) a hypothetical’, and uses inside dashes, e.g. ‘ A column about the couple’s decision to-gasp-date other people.’
• See v. 7d, ‘To be familiar with the habits, preferences, behaviour, etc., of (a person)’, is described as ‘Chiefly in introductory or parenthetical statements, as you know me, knowing you, etc.’ An example in a parenthetical statement is ‘If you’ve read as far as this-which I rather doubt, knowing you-you will probably wonder what I’m getting at.’