Its main function is formbuilding and distincting ,and it can be the phrase tail of noun,adjective,verb,numeral etc. , constitute some new phrase languages or give the phrase language the new meaning.
This would seem to be a complimentary term, but in point of fact it is not, for it has picked up associations of impracticality and ineffectuality and general dopiness.
The basic meaning of " pet" is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. A pet animal is kept as a companion, and we all need companions to keep us feeling happy.
These were some of the words that Nature readers used to describe their experience of art-science collaborations in a series of articles on partnerships between artists and researchers.
The more parents engaged in one-on-one baby talk, the more the baby babbled—which is a precursor to word production—and the more words they produced at age two.
So, not just the word " time" , but different expressions we use to indicate time, or different expressions or word pairs we use to talk about how long something takes, or when something happens.