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Words that are incompatible create the following type of entailment (where X is a given word and Y is a different word incompatible with word X): [2] sentence A is X entails sentence A is not Y [3] An example of an incompatible pair of words is cat : dog: It's a cat entails It's not a dog [4]
Īhām, ambiguity used as a literary device in Middle Eastern poetry-onym, suffix denoting a class of names; Oxymoron, contradiction used as a figure of speech; Semantics; Skunked term, a term that becomes difficult to use because it is evolving from one meaning to another, or is otherwise controversial
a striking success; used in the phrases "go (like) a bomb" and "go down a bomb"; Go like a bomb also means, when used of a vehicle, to go very fast an explosive weapon (v.) to be a failure ("the show bombed"); also as n. (n., used with the) something outstanding ("that show was the bomb"); sometimes spelled da bomb: bombardier
English educated speakers pronounce it / ð ə ˌ h ɔɪ p ə ˈ l ɔɪ /, but use in the opposite sense of "elites" usually has initial stress on "polloi". [10] [1] Ancient Greek had phonemic consonant length, or gemination. Speakers would have pronounced it [hoi polloi˨˦] with the double-λ being geminated.
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1] [2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of
The word is derived from the Latin word Anglii and Ancient Greek word φίλος philos, meaning "friend".Its antonym is Anglophobe. [3]One of the earliest instances of the word "Anglophile" was recorded in December 1864, when Charles Dickens wrote in an edition of his weekly magazine All the Year Round that he viewed the French monthly magazine Revue des deux Mondes as "an advanced and ...
If X is a kind of Y, then X is a hyponym of Y and Y is a hypernym of X. [7] Hyponymy is a transitive relation: if X is a hyponym of Y, and Y is a hyponym of Z, then X is a hyponym of Z. [8] For example, violet is a hyponym of purple and purple is a hyponym of color; therefore violet is a hyponym of color.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]