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Three little letters, 645 meanings. The post The Most Complicated Word in English is Only Three Letters Long appeared first on Reader's Digest.
As of 2013, he was responsible for the largest three or four entries in the then-current electronic revision, including the then largest (that for "run", which took him over 9 months and has 645 meanings for the verb form alone). In 2016 Gilliver published a history of the OED, [2] which took most of the previous decade to write.
A run of ace through five (where the ace is low) A run, straight or sequence is a combination of playing cards where cards have consecutive rank values. [1] The cards do not normally need to be in one type of suit. However, if they are, this is referred to as a suit sequence. [2]
Polysemy (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m i / or / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ s iː m i /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek πολύ-(polý-) ' many ' and σῆμα (sêma) ' sign ') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings.
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
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Three little letters, 645 meanings. The post The Most Complicated Word in English is Only Three Letters Long appeared first on Reader's Digest.
In baseball, a run is scored when a player advances around first, second and third base and returns safely to home plate, touching the bases in that order, before three outs are recorded and all obligations to reach base safely on batted balls are met or assured.