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to cadge ("can I bum a cigarette off you?") (slang) buttocks [24] [25] (colloquial) (US: butt) hobo, homeless person poor quality (slang) to sadden (often used with "out") injured or lame ("a bum knee") [26] bumps a type of rowing race a method of marking someone's birthday (see Birthday customs and celebrations) a set of small protuberances: bunk
Faraday cage demonstration on volunteers in the Palais de la Découverte in Paris EMI shielding around an MRI machine room Faraday shield at a power plant in Heimbach, Germany
Probably from a Scandinavian source or related to "cadge" [149] keg From a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse kaggi (="keg, cask") [150] keel kjölr [151] kenning a descriptive phrase used in Germanic poetry, a modern learned word from Old Norse kenning in a special sense. [152] kick
a synonym of among acceptable in British English while seeming old fashioned or pretentious in American English [15] anorak a hooded coat (US parka); a socially impaired obsessive, particularly trainspotters (US geek, trekkie, otaku, etc.) answerphone an automated telephone-answering machine, from the trademark Ansafone (US & UK answering machine)
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 ...
Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words. Although these words are not strictly synonyms, they can be viewed as colours or connotations of a meaning or as a spectrum of a concept.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).