Allomorph vs. Morph

Allomorphnoun

(chemistry) Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.

Morphnoun

A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds.

Allomorphnoun

(linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.

Morphnoun

(linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.

Allomorphnoun

Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; - as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

Morphnoun

(biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.

Allomorphnoun

any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound;

‘calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite’;

Morphnoun

A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.

Allomorphnoun

a variant phonological representation of a morpheme;

‘the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme’;

Morphnoun

(slang) morphine

Allomorph

In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant phonetic form of a morpheme, or, a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning. The term allomorph describes the realization of phonological variations for a specific morpheme.

Morphverb

To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.

Morphverb

(of fantastic beings in science fiction or fantasy) To shapeshift.

Morphverb

To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.

Morphnoun

A sequence of phonemes, often a word fragment, which constitutes the minimum unit of meaning or syntax within a given word. A morph may be one of several variants of a morpheme, depending for its individal form on the context in which it occurs. Thus the morphs -s and -es are variants of the morpheme by which the plural form of an English noun is expressed.

Morphverb

To transform smoothly in imperceptible steps from one image to another, on a computer screen.

Morphverb

cause to change shape in a computer animation;

‘The computer programmer morphed the image’;

Morphverb

change shape as via computer animation;

‘In the video, Michael Jackson morphed into a panther’;