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  2. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    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).

  3. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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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 *gʷōus.

  5. Abide - Wikipedia

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    Search for Abide in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Abide article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  6. Lexical function - Wikipedia

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    1. Syn [Lat. synonymum] = synonym.. Syn(helicopter) = copter, chopper Syn(telephone V) = phone V. 2. Anti [Lat. antonymum] = antonym. 3. Conv ijk [Lat. conversivum] = conversive.. This LF returns for L an LU L´ with the same meaning as L but with its Deep Syntactic Actants (roughly, syntactic arguments) i, j and k permuted —for example, the DSyntAs k, i and j of L are permuted in L´ such ...

  7. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Police officers have been known to put themselves at risk when rendering aid, usually running into a fire or other toxic atmosphere without proper training or personal protective equipment. Antonym: Hose Monkey. [citation needed] Blue Flu

  8. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  9. Non-abidance - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, especially the Chan traditions, non-abidance (in Sanskrit: apratiṣṭhita, with the a-prefix, lit. ‘unlimited’, ‘unlocalized’ [1]) is the practice of avoiding mental constructs during daily life.