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A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym. The semantic field of a hypernym, also known as a superordinate, is broader than that of a hyponym. An approach to the relationship between hyponyms and hypernyms is to view a hypernym as consisting of hyponyms.
BAN Basel Action Network; BANANA Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything; BAT (NEEC) Best available technique (not entailing excessive costs) BATRRT Best Available Treatment Recycling and Recovery Technology
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Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. " Garbage " can also refer specifically to food waste , as in a garbage disposal ; the two are sometimes collected separately.
Garbage in a 'Clean City' garbage can in Volzhskiy, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. In urban areas, garbage of all kinds is collected and treated as municipal solid waste; garbage that is discarded in ways that cause it to end up in the environment, rather than in containers or facilities designed to receive garbage, is considered litter.
Trash, an American film; Trash (2011 film), a Canadian drama film; Trash, a British film "Trash" , an episode of the TV series; Trash, a multiplayer real-time strategy; Trash TV, a form of television programming considered to be tasteless and unprofessional; Trash Video, a Finnish film production company
"File 13" is a euphemism for the trash can.The phrase is especially used in the U.S. military, and is less common outside of the United States.In the United Kingdom, for instance, the expression "round file" or "circular file" is more common (in reference to trash cans typically being round).
The hypernym/hyponym relationships among the noun synsets can be interpreted as specialization relations among conceptual categories. In other words, WordNet can be interpreted and used as a lexical ontology in the computer science sense.