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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a public building, e.g. a school. a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a building (UK: caretaker, especially for private residences; for schools etc. janitor is also used in the UK) jelly a fruit flavoured dessert set with gelatin (US: Jell-O (trademark))

  3. Sign name - Wikipedia

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    This ensures that no one else in the community already has the same sign name or that the same sign has a different meaning. Until a person receives a sign name, the person's name is usually fingerspelled, [1] rendering a letter-by-letter representation of a person's English-language name. [2]

  4. Fair division - Wikipedia

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    Fair division is the problem in game theory of dividing a set of resources among several people who have an entitlement to them so that each person receives their due share. . That problem arises in various real-world settings such as division of inheritance, partnership dissolutions, divorce settlements, electronic frequency allocation, airport traffic management, and exploitation of Earth ...

  5. Homograph - Wikipedia

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    A homograph (from the Greek: ὁμός, homós 'same' and γράφω, gráphō 'write') is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. [1] However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, [ 2 ] while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of ...

  6. Polysemy - Wikipedia

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    It is different, but related, as it derives from the theme of security initiated by 1. However: 1 is borrowed from Italian banco, a money lender's bench, while a river bank is a native English word. Today they can be considered homonyms with completely different meanings. But originally they were polysemous, since Italian borrowed the word from ...

  7. Sacrament of Penance - Wikipedia

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    The first such app on the iPhone to receive a bishop's approval was mistakenly reported as an app for the sacrament itself; [58] in reality the app was an electronic version of this long-standing tradition of material to be used in preparing oneself to make a good confession.

  8. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, a singular V-form derives from a third-person pronoun; in German and some Nordic languages, it is the third-person plural. Some languages have separate T and V forms for both singular and plural, others have the same form and others have a T–V distinction only in the singular. Different languages distinguish pronoun uses in ...

  9. Generation - Wikipedia

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    The word generate comes from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget". [4] The word generation as a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes (e.g., Beat Generation and Lost Generation).