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slope, gradient, or elevation; also ground level ("at grade", "over grade"); hence grade crossing (UK: level crossing) (v.) to level (as a roadbed), hence grader , construction machine for doing this *
a particular division of an administrative unit ("Patent Office") the place where a physician or dentist practices (UK: surgery) optician (ophthalmic optician) professional who tests eyes and prescribes lenses (US: optometrist) professional who dispenses lenses and spectacles (also dispensing optician in the UK) optometrist ophthalmic optician
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
The dictionary definition of contranym at Wiktionary; The dictionary definition of Appendix:English contranyms at Wiktionary; Contronyms by language in Wiktionary; Autoantonyms page on fun-with-words.com; List of English examples at LingerAndLook.com
The third edition (revised), published in 2008, has 1,264 pages, somewhat smaller than the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and is distinct from the "Compact" (single- and two-volume photo-reduced) editions of the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English was first published in 1948; the current edition is the tenth. The following editions exist:
The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations:
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").