Similar words: partition, bipartite, tripartite, repetitive, quantitive, competitive, competitively, competitiveness. Meaning: ['pɑrtɪtɪv /'pɑːt-] 
n. word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole. adj. 1. (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole 2. indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts 3. serving to separate or divide into parts.
n. word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole. adj. 1. (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole 2. indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts 3. serving to separate or divide into parts. 
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1. 'Some' and 'any' are partitives.
2. English partitive construction is a linguistic phenomenon characterized by symbolizing and schematizing the process of conceptualization.
3. Chinese classifiers and English partitive constructions can be used to achieve rhetoric effects, ie, to make language concrete, vivid and picturesque as well as to express the idea of quantity.
4. Double genitive and possessive partitive constructions have long been debated over in literature.
5. In 'a spoonful of sugar', the word 'spoonful' is a partitive.
6. As an independent grammatical category, the measure words don′t exist in English, but the partitive constructions occur constantly in English.
7. An important feature in Chinese grammer is that the partitive is very abundant. But there is not clearly classified about partitive in English.
8. This paper argues, instead, that there exists a semantic asymmetry between double genitive and possessive partitive constructions.
9. The subjects of the adjoined property legal relations possess the partitive ownership, common ownership, neighboring right and membership.
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