LEXICAL FEATURES OF THE METROLOGICAL UNITS OF THE ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

Units of measurement, length, weight, time, distance, notional category, anthropocentric, folk oral art.

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The purpose of this article is to analyze the psychological, practical and historical prerequisites for the emergence of measurement methods, as well as to consider anthropocentric methods of measurement and describe some linguistic means of their expression in English compared to Uzbek. As for the tasks of the study following points can be mentioned: (1) to explore the evolution of the measurement category; (2) to consider the category of measurement in the anthropocentric aspect; (3) to compare the national units of measurement of the English and Uzbek people, which are mostly found in folk oral arts; (4) to identify some lexical units and phraseological units with words of measurement found in both languages. To collect material for this article the method of continuous and random sampling is used. Descriptive method is also used for material processing and analysis. According to the findings of the article, units of the measurement are investigated as a notional category in both languages and history of Uzbek and English measurement units are analyzed