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Aloft: the stacks, masts, rigging, or other area above the highest solid structure. [1] Amidships: near the middle part of a ship. [1] Aport: toward the port side of a ship (opposite of "astarboard"). [7] Ashore: on or toward the shore or land. [8] Astarboard: toward the starboard side of a ship (opposite of "aport"). [9]
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
In German, Orient is usually used synonymously with the area between the Near East and East Asia, including Israel, the Arab world, and Greater Persia. [citation needed] The term Asiaten (English: Asians) means Asian people in general. Another word for Orient in German is Morgenland (now mainly poetic), which literally translates as "morning ...
The Kuomintang (KMT), [I] also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), [13] the Nationalist Party of China (NPC), [1] the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), [2] or the National People's Party of China (NPPC), [14] is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and currently in the Free area of the ...
antonym: a word with the exact opposite meaning of another word; an antithesis: often shown in opposite word pairs such as "high" and "low" (compare with "synonym") apronym : a word which, as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym; such as PLATO for "Programmed Logic for ...
As an adjective, this word describes an area that's bright and/or exposed to direct light from the Sun. OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally give it away before revealing the answer!