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  2. Manual - Wikipedia

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    Manual (music), a keyboard, as for an organ; Manual (band) Manual transmission; Manual, a bicycle technique similar to a wheelie, but without the use of pedal torque; Manual, balancing on two wheels in freestyle skateboarding tricks; The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) is a 1988 book by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty

  3. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Manual of Style says: ... creates a word meaning "not flammable". Thus "inflammable" is an auto-antonym, a word that can be its own antonym, depending on ...

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Reference work - Wikipedia

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    Manual – a handbook providing instructions in the use of a particular product; Phrase book – a collection of ready-made phrases, arranged systematically, usually for a foreign language together with a translation; Ready reckoner – a printed book or table containing pre-calculated values

  7. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  8. man page - Wikipedia

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    A man page (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries, system calls, and sometimes local system details. The local host administrators can create and install manual pages associated with the specific host.

  9. Manual (music) - Wikipedia

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    The word "manual" is used instead of the word "keyboard" when referring to any hand-operated keyboard on a keyboard instrument that has a pedalboard (a keyboard on which notes are played with the feet), such as an organ; or when referring to one of the keyboards on an instrument that has more than one hand-operated keyboard, such as a two- or ...