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2. Hapax legomenon - Wikipedia

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   Gvina (גבינה – cheese) is a hapax legomenon of Biblical Hebrew, found only in Job 10:10. The word has become extremely common in modern Hebrew. Zechuchith (זכוכית) is a hapax legomenon of Biblical Hebrew, found only in Job 28:17. The word derives from the root זכה z-ch-h, meaning clear/transparent and refers to glass or crystal ...

3. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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   The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are abstemiously, affectiously, and tragediously (OED). Fracedinously and gravedinously (constructed from adjectives in OED) have thirteen letters; Gadspreciously, constructed from Gadsprecious (in OED), has fourteen letters.

4. YOLO (aphorism) - Wikipedia

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   YOLO" is an acronym for "you only live once". It became a popular internet slang term in 2012 after the release of Canadian rapper Drake 's hit single, " The Motto ". [ 1 ] It expresses the view that one should make the most of the present moment and not worry excessively about possible consequences.

5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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   Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english 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 terms ...

6. Ichi-go ichi-e - Wikipedia

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   Rikyū's apprentice Yamanoue Sōji instructs in Yamanoue Sōji Ki to give respect to your host "as though it were a meeting that could occur only once in the lifetime" (一期に一度の会のように, ichigo ni ichido no e no yō ni). [3] Ichigo (一期) is a Buddhist term meaning "from one's birth to death", i.e. one's lifetime.

7. Nonce word - Wikipedia

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   The term is used because such a word is created "for the nonce" (i.e., for the time being, or this once), [2]: 455 coming from James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. [ 8 ] : 25 Some analyses consider nonce words to fall broadly under neologisms , which are usually defined as words relatively recently accepted into a language's ...

8. Cryptographic nonce - Wikipedia

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   A nonce is an arbitrary number used only once in a cryptographic communication, in the spirit of a nonce word.They are often random or pseudo-random numbers. Many nonces also include a timestamp to ensure exact timeliness, though this requires clock synchronisation between organisations.

9. Heterogram (literature) - Wikipedia

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   A heterogram (from hetero-, meaning 'different', + -gram, meaning 'written') is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. The terms isogram and nonpattern word have also been used to mean the same thing. [1] [2] [3] It is not clear who coined or popularized the term "heterogram".