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  2. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    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, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  3. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  4. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword creator might choose to clue the answer SEN (as in the abbreviation for "senator") as "Washington bigwig: Abbr." or "Member of Cong.", with the abbreviation in the clue indicating that the answer is to be similarly abbreviated. [7] The use of "Var." indicates the answer is a variant spelling (e.g., EMEER instead of EMIR), while the ...

  5. All Around the Town - Wikipedia

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    All Around the Town is a 1948 picture book written by Phyllis McGinley and illustrated by Helen Stone. The book is a rhyming alphabet book exploring a town. The book was a recipient of a 1949 Caldecott Honor for its illustrations. [1]

  6. The Sidewalks of New York - Wikipedia

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    The song is also used in the first few scenes of the film adaptation of Mary Higgins Clark best selling novel, All Around The Town. A version by Blondie was used in the ending montage of the HBO drama The Deuce. There is a 1981 live album by Bob James recorded at different concert locations in New York City called All around the town.

  7. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A town in Texas famous for its unusual name after painter Cohn Cohen Hoover was hired to paint two bells, with one saying "Ding", and the other bell saying "Dong". This town is also located in a very "resonant"-sounding area of its U.S. state. Dingle: A town in County Kerry, Ireland, it is the only town on the Dingle Peninsula.

  9. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    The Afrikaans verb omry can also mean either "to drive around" or "to run over", but with no distinction in pronunciation. The Romanian verb a închiria , the French verb louer , the Afrikaans verb huur , the Finnish verb vuokrata [ 20 ] and the Spanish alquilar [ 10 ] and arrendar [ 21 ] mean "to rent" (as the lessee does) as well as "to let ...