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Loan

A loanin.

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Manner of action 2

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related verb as a more specific manner of this action.

Trust 76% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 5

Aramaism 76% connected

An idiom of the Aramaic.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gallicism 76% connected

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Grecism 76% connected

An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Latinism 76% connected

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 3

Debt 76% connected

That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Word 76% connected

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Component part 1

Principal 70% connected

Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a member, substance or component part.

Synonym 2

Lend 92% connected

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

loanword 92% connected

A word borrowed from another language.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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