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An apocryphal story relates how Charles II (or sometimes Queen Anne) described St Paul's Cathedral (using contemporaneous English) as "awful, pompous, and artificial", with the meaning (rendered in modern English) of "awe-inspiring, majestic, and ingeniously designed." [8]
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.
Language game: a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear Pig Latin; Ubbi dubbi; Non sequiturs: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement; Techniques that involve the formation of a name. Ananym: a name with reversed letters of an existing name
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 ...
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 ]
Kennedy was cooking with beef tallow, or rendered beef fat, which he has repeatedly claimed is healthier than canola or other oils from se Kennedy's confirmation in top US health job could boost ...
Mattiline Render (born 1947), American sprinter; Michael Render (born 1975), better known as Killer Mike, American rapper; Rudy Render (1926–2014), American musician and songwriter; Sergio Render (born 1986), American football player; Shirley Render (born 1943), Canadian politician; Sylvia Lyons Render (1913–1986), American academic and curator
This representation is then rendered as a displayable image. [27] As the user interacts with the system (e.g. by using joystick controls to change their position within the virtual world) the raw data is fed through the pipeline to create a new rendered image, often making real-time computational efficiency a key consideration in such applications.