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2. Opposite (semantics) - Wikipedia

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   Opposite (semantics) In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship. For example, something that is male entails that it is not female. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. The relationship between opposites is known as opposition.

3. Contronym - Wikipedia

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   Contronym. A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings; such a word is also known as an antagonym, autoantonym, contranym, or Janus word. [1] [2] For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [3] [4] enantionymy ( enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy.

4. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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   Antiphrasis. Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2]

5. Oxymoron - Wikipedia

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   Oxymoron. Oxymorons are words that communicate contradictions. An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox.

6. The reason this mom reads her daughter’s diary — and why ...

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   July 16, 2024 at 7:48 PM. A mom says reading her daughter’s diary — with her approval — makes them closer than ever. Kristin Hallett, a mom in Calgary in Alberta, Canada, keeps a tradition ...

7. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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   A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: " Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher. ", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [ 39][circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous.

8. Anthony Volpe has one word for state of the skidding Yankees ...

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   Anthony Volpe stood in a quiet, mostly empty Yankees clubhouse and had a one-word description of the team's shockingly sorry skid. A major league-best 49-21 through June 12, New York is a big ...

9. Older guys Macdonald and Oberholzer set a gold standard for ...

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   Andy Mac and 49-year-old South African Dallas Oberholzer are the older guys in a men's Olympic competition where the youngest entrant is 16-year-old Viktor Solmunde of Denmark. Macdonald finished ...