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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...
The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap
Free time, traditionally usually called leisure time or leisure, refers to the time when one is not working. It may also refer to: Free time (music), a type of musical meter free from musical time and time signature; Freetime, an album by Spyro Gyra; The Sims 2: FreeTime, The Sims 2 expansion pack
Of Time, Work, and Leisure is a 1962 book by Pulitzer prize-winning political scientist Sebastian de Grazia about the role of what he calls "work time", "free time", and "leisure time" in society. De Grazia argues that even though the average workday and work week are shorter, and technology frees up time for workers, the average worker has ...
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.
A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci: to set forth from false principles: Legal phrase. From Cicero, De Finibus IV.53. a fortiori: from the stronger: i.e., "even more so" or "with even stronger reason". Often used to lead from a less certain proposition to a more evident corollary. a maiore ad minus
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Sometimes the Germanic term has become rare, or restricted to special meanings: tide, time/temporal, chronic. [13] Many bound morphemes in English are borrowed from Latin and Greek and are synonyms for native words or morphemes: fish, pisci-(L), ichthy-(Gk). Another source of synonyms is coinages, which may be motivated by linguistic purism.