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(n. & v.) substitute (usu. in sport) (sexual) submissive substitute teacher (UK: supply teacher) to teach in place of the normal teacher (regional) submarine sandwich* subdivision the process or an instance of subdividing the division of a tract of land into lots (q.v.) for the purpose of sale, or the tract of land so divided.
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. Additional usage ...
List of garments having different names in American and British English. Lists of words having different meanings in American and British English: (A–L; M–Z) Works;
Epistrophe – a succession of clauses, phrases or sentences that all end with the same word or group of words. Epithet – a term used as a descriptive and qualifying substitute for the name of a person, place or thing. Epizeuxis – emphasizing an idea by repeating a single word.
Ananym: a name with reversed letters of an existing name; Aptronym: a name that aptly represents a person or character; Charactonym: a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character; Eponym: applying a person's name to a place; Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name
a notional source of unexpected or illogical questions, ideas, etc. ("that proposal came out of left field") [585] Defined by the Merriam-Webster online American dictionary as having American baseball-related origins [586] (the) Lower 48 used mainly by Alaskans, this is a colloquialism for the 48 Contiguous United States.
a roll call or roster of names, or round or rotation of duties (the) rozzers (rare slang) Police ("Quick, the rozzers! Scarper!") – possibly from Robert Peel, who also gave his name to two other slang terms for the police: peelers (archaic) and bobbies (becoming old-fashioned). rubbish *
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 ...