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  2. 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.

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    (or efficiency apartment) a minimal often furnished apartment, similar to a studio apartment (UK: compare bedsit) el (L) letter identifying a learner driver; see L-plate: the letter L an elevated railway (as that of Chicago or the now-defunct Third Avenue El in New York City) elevator flap on the back of an aeroplane used to control pitch

  4. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    The corresponding Latin antonym, ars, is the source of English art, which is not an antonym of inert. Inflammable Flammable Synonym. From Latin flammare meaning "to catch fire". Inflammable is from Latin inflammare meaning "to cause to catch fire". Antonym is nonflammable. [4] Innocent Nocent Rare. Means "harmful". Innocuous Nocuous Uncommon [5 ...

  5. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  6. List of YouTubers - Wikipedia

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    English actress and singer; she has a YouTube channel where she plays the piano and sings, but she posts mainly video blogs. Rebecca Flint: United Kingdom xBextahx Known for cover dances under the name Beckii Cruel Luis Fernando Flores: El Salvador Fernanfloo Salvadoran YouTuber who uploaded commented gameplays Evan Fong: Canada

  7. -onym - Wikipedia

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    synonym: 1: a word equivalent in meaning or nearly so to another word; a word that may be substituted for another word that has the same or a similar meaning, such as near and close (compare "antonym"). 2: In Biology, one or more names given to the same taxon, and so considered equivalent.

  8. Aptronym - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary reported that the word appeared in a Funk & Wagnall’s dictionary in 1921, defined as "a surname indicative of an occupation: as, Glass, the glazier". [3] [5] Psychologist Carl Jung wrote in his 1960 book Synchronicity that there was a "sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his ...

  9. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder words exist in a highly informal register of the English language. In formal speech and writing, words like accessory, paraphernalia, artifact, instrument, or utensil are preferred; these words serve substantially the same function, but differ in connotation. Most of these words can be documented in at least the 19th century.