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  2. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    English of or pertaining to England the English language (adj.) the foot-pound-second system of units [citation needed] (UK: Imperial) English (n.) spin placed on a ball in cue sports (UK: side) engineer: a technician or a person who mends and operates machinery one employed to design, build or repair equipment practitioner of engineering

  5. Friendly - Wikipedia

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    Friendly Center, a shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States; Friendly Hall, a building on the University of Oregon campus; Friendly High School, a public high school in Fort Washington, Maryland, United States; Friendly number, in mathematics, shares a property concerning its divisors; Friendly TV, a British TV station from ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Frenemy - Wikipedia

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    Frenemy" is a portmanteau of "friend" and "enemy" that refers to "a person with whom one is friendly, despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry" or "a person who combines the characteristics of a friend and an enemy". [1] The term is used to describe personal, geopolitical and commercial relationships both among individuals and groups or ...

  8. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Available worldwide define 船 [a] English (UK) Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford Thesaurus of English Oxford University Press: Shown worldwide (except North America) define apple [25] [b] English (US) New Oxford American Dictionary. Oxford Thesaurus of English Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

  9. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    Language portal; Linguistics portal; List of English-language idioms. List of 19th-century English language idioms; List of kennings; List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names; List of Newspeak words; Longest word in English