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Other contronyms are a form of polysemy, but where a single word acquires different and ultimately opposite definitions. For example, sanction —"permit" or " penalize "; bolt (originally from crossbows )—"leave quickly" or "fix/immobilize"; fast —"moving rapidly" or "fixed in place".
While I agree that we shouldn't attempt to catalog every word that might be deemed a contronym (e.g., see the External link for LingerAndLook.com), and thus need to draw an objective line somewhere, I still think it would be useful to give examples of emerging contronyms (as documented by credible sources like Merriam-Webster) somewhere on the ...
An example of false friends in German and English. In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning.
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M. Madame Royale; Mademoiselle (title) Mais Boum, quand notre coeur fait Boum, tout avec lui dit Boum, et c'est l'amour qui s'éveille; Mais où est donc Ornicar ?
University of Chicago, The ARTFL Project, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, Full text, searchable French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.Includes: Dictionnaire de L'Académie française: 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932–5) editions; Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue ...
Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Creu de Malta (mecanisme) Usage on el.wikipedia.org Ρυθμός μεταβολής της επιτάχυνσης; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Rueda de Ginebra; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Croix de Malte (mécanisme) À-coup; Usage on la.wikipedia.org Mutatio accelerationis; Usage on ms.wikipedia.org Pemacu Geneva