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Some online dictionaries are organized as lists of words, similar to a glossary, while others offer search features, reverse lookups, and additional language tools and content such as verb conjugations, grammar references, and discussion forums. The variety of online dictionaries for specialized topics is enormous, covering a wide range of ...
Lively, joyfully fugue ( Fr. ), fuga (Latin and Italian) Literally "flight"; hence a complex and highly regimented contrapuntal form in music; a short theme (the subject ) is introduced in one voice (or part) alone, then in others, with imitation and characteristic development as the piece progresses
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and 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, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
Robyn Lively. Robyn and Blake Lively in 2024. Robyn Lively was bit by the acting bug early. Born in 1972, she was just 6 when her first movie, “Summer of My German Soldier,” hit TV screens. As ...
The longest entry in the OED2 was for the verb set, which required 60,000 words to describe some 580 senses (430 for the bare verb, the rest in phrasal verbs and idioms). As entries began to be revised for the OED3 in sequence starting from M, the record was progressively broken by the verbs make in 2000, then put in 2007, then run in 2011 with ...
In the four-minute video, Flaa congratulates Lively — who had recently announced at the time that she was pregnant with her second child — on her “little bump,” to which Lively replies ...