Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…
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A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word it…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.One who classifies.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.The act or process of converting metal into money.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.Below the average size; very small; little.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
Used in the same subject area: Spelling and grammar, Word origins, Sentence structure, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examinati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: grammar, grammatical, constituent, plays, role.biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
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