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The phenomenon was first described by Francis Galton in 1880 in a statistical study about mental imagery. [2] Galton wrote: To my astonishment, I found that the great majority of the men of science to whom I first applied, protested that mental imagery was unknown to them, and they looked on me as fanciful and fantastic in supposing that the words "mental imagery" really expressed what I ...
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).
Humans are animals, despite the fact that the word animal is colloquially used as an antonym for human. [180] [181] Ecosystems do not naturally move back towards an equilibrium using negative feedback. [182] The concept of an inherent "balance of nature" has been superseded by chaos theory. [183]
These rules are usually statements about English usage which the authors imagine to be, as a rule, true. But statements of this kind are extremely difficult to formulate both simply and accurately. They are rarely altogether true; often only partially true; sometimes contradicted by usage itself. Sometimes the contrary to them is also true. [1]
The German verb ausleihen, the Dutch verb lenen, the Afrikaans verb leen, the Polish verb pożyczyć, the Russian verb одолжить (odolžítʹ), the Finnish verb lainata, and the Esperanto verb prunti can mean either "to lend" or "to borrow", with case, pronouns, and mention of persons making the sense clear.
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 ]
Imagine, a 1997 album by 14 Karat Soul; Imagine, a 2000 album by Aaron Benward; Imagine, a 1993 album by Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Imagine, a 1995 album by Keiko Lee; Imagine, a 2004 album by Minmi; Imagine, a 1996 album by Ofra Harnoy; Imagine, a 1989 album by Sébastien El Chato; Imagine, a 2008 album by Vox Angeli
"Imagine" is a song by the English musician John Lennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, the lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, without materialism, without borders separating nations and without religion.