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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.
an account of events, usu. fictional but sometimes factual a floor of a building (UK: storey) stove: a hothouse or greenhouse for plants the grate of a fireplace: wood- or coal-burning room-heating appliance (but in AmE this usage almost always limited to historical contexts, e.g. "one-room schoolhouses usually had potbelly stoves for warmth.")
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
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").
A defining characteristic of clickbait is misrepresentation in the enticement presented to the user to manipulate them to click onto a link. While there is no universally agreed-upon definition of clickbait, Merriam-Webster defines clickbait as "something designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink, especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest."
And calling the talk page discussions "bickering" is a rather negative view. The article's edit note explicitly says to get consensus for any new examples that do not have sources showing them to be auto-antonyms. Talk page discussion of proposed additions is exactly what should happen. Meters 01:47, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
Elocutio – the stage of elaborating the wording of a text, using correct grammar and diction. Enallage – the switching of grammatical forms for an expressive purpose. Enthymeme – a type of argument that is grounded in assumed commonalities between a rhetor and the audience. (For example: Claim 1: Bob is a person. Therefore, Claim 3: Bob ...
Play starts again with the team captain and is similar to the main game: a correct guess allows the player to give another answer, a wrong answer passes control to the next player in line. For the first survey question, only the top one answer is needed, the second needs the top two answers, the third needs the top three answers, and the fourth ...