concordance

plural concordances · alternative concordaunce

1. countableuncountableAgreement; accordance; consonance.

   John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.

   1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I

   Synonyms: accordance, agreement, consonance

2. countableobsoleteuncountablegrammarAgreement of words with one another; concord.

   Synonyms: agreement, concord

3. countableuncountablechiefly biblical studiesA listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.

   c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.

   1. countableuncountablechiefly biblical studiescomputationalA listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
4. countableuncountablebiologyThe probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
5. countableuncountablemedicineA patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.

present singular third person concordances · participle present concordancing · participle past concordanced · past concordanced · alternative concordaunce

1. transitiveTo create a concordance from (a corpus).

   Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.

   2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 2