Twitter Google Share on Facebook De`syn`on`y`mi`za´tion n.1.The act of desynonymizing. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe webmaster's ...
A new, more successful attempt was made yesterday. . . . ... The drafters of the law . . . said that the [current regulatory] documents, drawn up by the executive branch, were ineffective and did not agree among themselves, which had led to the de facto disappearance of the officially...
The latter is an attempt to mitigate the effect of differences in vocabu- lary between the two corpora. In the two-step approaches, the SUM/AVG option is configurable for each step. In the single-step approaches, the combinations can be per- formed either with or without normalization, ...
The lord of the underworld and the god of the dead, Hades was the third of the Olympian brothers to battle and defeat Cronus, and his quest was aided by the Cyclopes' creation for him of an invisibility helmet, a third symbol of them and their powers. They fashioned this object for Had...
By definition, the null hypothesis is an alternative hypothesis to the one under investigation. The null hypothesis is the one that the researchers attempt to prove invalid or simply reject. If the researcher rejects the null hypothesis without proposing an alternative hypothesis, the experiment is ...
In it, evidence was given to show that many inventions which, until then, western historians had claimed for Europe, were made first in China. The attempt to rewrite the intellectual history of the world was not received without protest by some reputable historians. However, the evidence that ...
The Israelis feel threatened — not just by Iran’s potential to wipe out Israel with just one bomb, but because if Iran were to get the bomb, then the Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia, would probably panic and attempt to get their own as well. —Tim Marshall ...
common at the time. Some treatments were fantastical, such as the use of a potion containing ground unicorn horn. Arsenic and mercury were also believed to bring about a cure. Finally, the most outrageous treatment was to tie a live chicken to a bubo in an attempt to rid the body of ...
a man was typically ineligible for the draft if he had certain medical conditions or physical limitations. In addition, men convicted of certain crimes, such as treason, and non-citizens of the U.S. were ineligible. Men who were the sole economic provider for a wife and child or a motherl...
While Spain had powerful colonies in Mexico, which included parts of today’s American Southwest, and South America, Florida was her one attempt to colonize the Atlantic seacoast. Spain founded the city of St. Augustine in 1565, making it the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in th...