argument

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

   “Says Plowdon [i.e., Edmund Plowden], the whale so caught belongs to the King and Queen, “because of its superior excellence.” And by the soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such matters.”

2. isim A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
3. isim A process of reasoning; argumentation.

   “Indeed, I cannot commend my life; for I am conſcious to my ſelf of many failings: therein, I know alſo that a man by his converſation, may ſoon overthrow what by argument or perſwaſion he doth labour to faſten upon others for their good: […]”

4. isim An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.

   “If I would broach the veſſels of my loue, / And try the argument of hearts, by borrowing, / Men, and mens fortunes, could I frankely vſe / As I can bid thee ſpeake.”

5. isim A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

   “The neighbours got into an argument about the branches of the trees that extended over the fence.”

6. isim Any dispute, altercation, or collision.

   “Steve got in a physical argument with his neighbor and came away with a black eye.”

7. isim Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
8. isim The independent variable of a function.
9. isim The phase of a complex number.
10. isim A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.

    “The altitude is the argument of the refraction.”

11. isim A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.

    “Parameters are like labelled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.”

12. isim A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
13. isim A matter in question; a business in hand.

    “As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparent danger ſeene in him, Aimde at your highnes, no inueterate malice.”

14. isim The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.

    “[I]n vttering the ſtuffe ye receiued of the one, in declaring the order ye tooke with the other, ye ſhall neuer lacke, neither matter, nor maner, what to write, nor how to write in this kinde of Argument.”

15. isim Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.

    “[F]or louing me, by my troth it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her follie, for I will be horribly in loue with her, […]”

16. fiil To put forward as an argument; to argue.

    “Both kneeling, and all the reſt of the Popiſh Ceremonies, may well be compared to the Brazen Serpent. […] I. Rainoldes [i.e., John Rainolds] argumenteth, from Hezekiah his breaking downe of the Brazen Serpent, to the plucking downe of the ſigne of the Croſſe.”

17. fiil To adduce evidence, to provide proof.