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  2. Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face - Wikipedia

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    Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive overreaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.

  3. Dictionary (software) - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary and thesaurus in Dictionary are in an XML format, but make use of precompiled binary index files to access the XML file directly. Therefore, the lexicon cannot easily be modified. However, the user can add new words to the macOS system-wide spell checker , which uses its own lexicon.

  4. File:Gesner novus thesaurus vol1 part1of2.pdf - Wikipedia

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  5. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  6. Power Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Power Thesaurus was created by Alexander Radyushin in 2012 and developed by Radyushin & Co. [3] [4] The domain name for the thesaurus was registered on September 18, 2012. In 2015, the android and iOS app versions of the thesaurus were developed while its Chrome and Opera browser extensions were released in 2016. [5] [6]

  7. 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. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.

  8. Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English

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    This article about a dictionary is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  9. Politeness theory - Wikipedia

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    The study was able to identify face-saving acts and all four politeness strategies at work. The author states, "Reviewers usually appear to have in mind the addressee's positive face (the desire to be liked and be approved of) as well as his negative face (the desire to be left free to act as he chooses)."