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  2. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus. 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 ...

  3. Dutch profanity - Wikipedia

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    Chips is a minced oath version of shit, used to avoid saying the common English loan word "shit". dikzak: Dikzak (literally: "fat bag") is an insult used to describe a fat person. Synonyms include vetzak (literally: "lard bag") and papzak (literally: "porridge bag"). doos: Doos literally means box, but is slang for vagina. It is a rather mild ...

  4. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    Pleonasm. Pleonasm ( / ˈpliː.əˌnæzəm /; from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλέον (pléon) 'to be in excess') [ 1][ 2] is redundancy in linguistic expression, such as in "black darkness," "burning fire," "the man he said," [ 3] or "vibrating with motion." It is a manifestation of tautology by traditional ...

  5. Person of Interest season 4 - Wikipedia

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    Person of Interest. season 4. The fourth season of the American television series Person of Interest premiered on September 23, 2014. The season is produced by Kilter Films, Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. Television, with Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, J. J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk serving as executive producers and Plageman serving as showrunner.

  6. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is the most commonly used computational lexicon of English for word-sense disambiguation (WSD), a task aimed at assigning the context-appropriate meanings (i.e. synset members) to words in a text. [ 14] However, it has been argued that WordNet encodes sense distinctions that are too fine-grained.

  7. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility and obligation). [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  8. Control-Alt-Delete (Person of Interest) - Wikipedia

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    Person of Interest. ) " Control-Alt-Delete " is the 12th episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Person of Interest. It is the 80th overall episode of the series and is written by Andy Callahan and directed by Stephen Surjik. It aired on CBS in the United States and on CTV in Canada on January 13, 2015.

  9. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs . Generally, the only inflected forms of an ...