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an act of leaping or omitting; see skip (radio), skip (in audio playback) one who disappears without paying their debts ("finding a good skip tracer is harder than finding your debtors") (UK: Gone Away) skive (v.) to avoid work or school (play truant) v. to cut or pare leather/rubber; n. an indentation made from skiving skivvy
For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
The dictionary definition of contranym at Wiktionary; The dictionary definition of Appendix:English contranyms at Wiktionary; Contronyms by language in Wiktionary; Autoantonyms page on fun-with-words.com; List of English examples at LingerAndLook.com
Definitions use only 2000 common words. Optical disc includes contents from LDOCE and Longman Concise Chinese-English Dictionary. Traditional Chinese version (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (English-Chinese) 4th Edition/朗文當代高級辭典(英英・英漢雙解)第四版) Hardcover edition+disc (ISBN 978-962005843-1)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining ...
Dictionary of American Slang; A Dictionary of Americanisms; A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage; A Dictionary of English Etymology; A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words; A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English; A Dictionary of the English Language; The Drinker's ...
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.