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Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that is more specific than a given word
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that is more specific than a given word
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that is more specific than a given word
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that is more generic than a given word
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.a word that is more generic than a given word
Used in the same subject area: Linguistics, Semantics.two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
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One of the different sounds used to pronounce the same basic speech sound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.(physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.Capable of being commuted or interchanged.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate conte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process; "there were wide variations in the conditions of o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.To context.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the com…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communicatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, interchanged, context, said, synonymous.(computer science) a natural language processing application that tries to determine the intended meaning of a word or phrase by exami…
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