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Think of "reckon (with)" as a synonym for "estimate" or "consider" and the usages should become clearer. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:56, 22 January 2010 (UTC) The phrase to be reckoned with is a stock phrase or cliché. The phrase has a meaning as a whole that has only a loose connection with the individual words that form it.
This is a relatively new phenomenon that was unknown in the early 20th century. Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [59] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"
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.
In Wiltshire, a similar word ' jidder ' is used — possible relation to 'gypsy'. Janny Reckon (Cornwall and Devon) Derived from Chinny Reckon and Janner, and is often used in response to a wildly exaggerated fisherman's tale. Jasper (Devon, Wiltshire, West Hampshire) wasp. keendle teening (Cornwall) candle lighting kern (Somerset)
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 synonymous .
Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5] Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words.
Huawei Technologies asked a U.S. judge to dismiss much of a federal indictment accusing the Chinese telecommunications company of trying to steal technology secrets from U.S. rivals and misleading ...
Plastic Scousers or Plazzies (a person who falsely claims to be from Liverpool), [58] Woolybacks or Wools (a person from the surrounding areas of Liverpool, especially St Helens, Warrington, Widnes, or the Wirral) [59] [60] Llanelli Turks [61] London Cockneys (Traditionally those born within the sound of the bells of St Mary le Bow, Cheapside) Looe