Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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).
R-colored vowels are exceedingly rare, occurring in less than one percent of all languages. [1] However, they occur in two of the most widely spoken languages: North American English and Mandarin Chinese. In North American English, they are found in words such as dollar, butter, third, color, and nurse.
A majority of US adults polled by CBS News/YouGov approved of how President Donald Trump was handling the presidency in his first month.
The S&P 500 and Dow erased earlier losses to close higher. Investors are eyeing fourth-quarter earnings as a potential catalyst to spark a rebound in the stock market.
"Hot For You Baby" made its on-air debut Thursday on BBC's Radio 2 Breakfast Show at 8:50 a.m. local time. The track, according to BBC is a " prime example of Turner's raspy, physical style of ...
The antonym "hypogamy" [a] refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status (colloquially "marrying down"). Both terms were invented in the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century while translating classical Hindu law books, which used the Sanskrit terms anuloma and pratiloma, respectively, for the two concepts. [2]
Unlike derivational suffixes, English derivational prefixes typically do not change the lexical category of the base (and are so called class-maintaining prefixes). Thus, the word do, consisting of a single morpheme, is a verb, as is the word redo, which consists of the prefix re-and the base root do.