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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    one that solicits (e.g. contributions to charity), an advertiser, a salesperson, a promoter; often annoying. chief law officer of a city, town, or government department solitaire peg-jumping puzzle game (see peg solitaire) any of a family of one-player card games (see solitaire) (UK: patience) sort (v.)

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english 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 terms ...

  4. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    So termed by the similar appearance of the model name to the word pooch: P30CH / POOCH. [193] Position light signal (Pennsylvania) Signals made by the Pennsylvania Railroad that make use of a circular disc with up to eight lights mounted in a circle, with one light in the center. The lights would line up in a straight line to give the indication.

  5. Shed - Wikipedia

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    Hopkins and Riley followed up that book with Inventions from the Shed (1999) [17] and a 5-part film documentary series with the same name. [18] Gordon Thorburn also examined the shed proclivity in his book Men and Sheds (2002), [19] as did Gareth Jones in Shed Men (2004). [20] Recently, "Men's Sheds" have become common in Australia. [21]

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  7. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Because it is most commonly used in conjunction with a nine-month academic year [114] or a nine-month term of human pregnancy, [115] it is sometimes wrongly assumed that trimester is a synonym for one third of a year or other period. [116] [117] Standard: One calendar year contains four trimesters.

  8. Wikipedia:Stub - Wikipedia

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    A dictionary article is about a word or phrase and will often have several different definitions for it; An encyclopedia article is about the subject denoted by the title but usually has only one definition (or in some cases, several definitions that are largely the same) but there may be several equivalent words (synonyms) or phrases for it.

  9. Outhouse - Wikipedia

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    The little sheds in each back yard are outhouses. "Dunny" or "dunny can" are Australian words for a toilet, particularly an outhouse. The combinations "dunny paper" and "dunny brush" are commonly encountered. [citation needed] For other uses of the word, see dunny (disambiguation).