overall vocabulary

collocation in English

meaningsofoverallandvocabulary

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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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vocabulary
noun
uk
/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us
/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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(Definition ofoverallandvocabularyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, what emerges is that, although phonological memory was related to individuals'overallvocabulary knowledge, its role in new vocabulary learning was considerably diminished.
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However, nooverallvocabularymeasures or measures of language knowledge were utilized.
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This does not mean, however, that a user'soverallvocabularyis small.
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The totals for each of the five levels are added together to achieve an estimate ofoverallvocabularysize.
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However, we lack anyoverallvocabularyestimate for the child, one of the most precocious of 25 subjects.
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Additionally, it was decided that standardized tests would best assessoverallvocabularygrowth.
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Rattigan is particularly strong in discussing the contributions of sound effects, music, and the technical elements to theoverallvocabularyof radio drama.
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Of the 63 subjects who increased theiroverallvocabularysize over the school year, 43 (68%) had at least one frequency level with a negative score.
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First, some studies infer an effect for frequency on individual words based onoverallvocabularysize.
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This ideal measure also would include anoverallvocabularyability standard score and a method to determine if performance on the two (or more) subtests differed significantly.
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