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A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
The distinction between univocal, equivocal, and analogous language and relations corresponds to the distinction between the via positiva, via negativa, and via eminentiae. In Thomas Aquinas, for example, the via positiva undergirds the discussion of univocity, the via negativa the equivocal, and the via eminentiae the final defense of analogy ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Sanders played for the Cowboys for five seasons during his 14-year career as an NFL cornerback, and has a strong relationship with Jones. (Sanders told Eisen that Jones is listed in his phone as ...
Former The View cohost and conservative commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck has slammed current panelist and comedian Joy Behar after the latter criticized Carrie Underwood's decision to perform at ...
The telecommunications industry differentiates between several distinct FTTX configurations. The terms in most widespread use today are: FTTE (fiber-to-the-edge) is a networking approach used in the enterprise building (hotels, convention centers, office buildings, hospitals, senior living communities, Multi-Dwelling Units, stadiums, etc.).
Coinbase must face a lawsuit by customers who accused the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange of illegally selling securities without registering as a broker-dealer, a federal judge ruled on Friday.