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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. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia

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   This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE ...

5. WordNet - Wikipedia

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   WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms.The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples.

6. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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   Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [ 1][ 2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower ...

8. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   M. Word. British English meanings. Meanings common to British and American English. American English meanings. mac. raincoat (short form of Mackintosh ) ( Mac) brand of Apple Inc. computers (short form of Macintosh) ( MAC, followed or not by "address") unique 6-character hexadecimal serial number assigned to a data transmission device such as a ...

9. File:English grammar for beginners (IA englishgrammarfo00west ...

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