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  2. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain (Latin: familia "family"). Filicide – the act of a parent killing their child (Latin: filius "son" and Latin: filia "daughter"). Fratricide – the act of killing a brother (Latin: frater "brother"); also, in military context, death by friendly fire.

  3. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Go the way of all flesh [2] To die Neutral Go west [2] To be killed or lost Informal Refers to the sun setting at the west. The Grim Reaper [2] Personification of death Cultural: A skeleton with a scythe, often in a cloak. Also commonly truncated to just "The Reaper". Hand in one's dinner pail [2] To die Informal No longer required at workmen's ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Semantic ambiguity - Wikipedia

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    The higher the number of synonyms a word has, the higher the degree of ambiguity. [1] Like other kinds of ambiguity , semantic ambiguities are often clarified by context or by prosody . One's comprehension of a sentence in which a semantically ambiguous word is used is strongly influenced by the general structure of the sentence. [ 2 ]

  6. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    For example, fingers describe all digits on a hand, but the existence of the word thumb for the first finger means that fingers can also be used for "non-thumb digits on a hand". [13] Autohyponymy is also called "vertical polysemy". [a] [14] Horn called this "licensed polysemy", but found that autohyponyms also formed even when there is no ...

  7. Polysemy - Wikipedia

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    Polysemy (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m i / or / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ s iː m i /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek πολύ-(polý-) 'many' and σῆμα (sêma) 'sign') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word senses. [3]

  8. Double entendre - Wikipedia

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    Double entendres generally rely on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning. They often exploit ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. Sometimes a homophone can be used as a pun. When three or more meanings have been constructed, this is known as a "triple entendre," etc. [4]

  9. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    Other ways of watching recent changes are the Recentchanges IRC channel, or CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, which announce changes in realtime. Redirect, redir, rd A page title which, when requested, sends the reader to another page. This is used for synonyms and ease of linking.