The team from my class won the ninth-grade synonym bee (a competition like a spelling bee, but requiring a synonym for each word, rather than a correct spelling of the word). "We're the best,' crowed Zach (all
It is, however, extremely rare that two words have the exact same meaning – perfect synonyms – as there is often at least one parameter that distinguishes the use of one word from another [2]. For this reason, we typically speak of near-synonyms instead; that is, two words that are ...
Methods Synonym data and pre‑processing The present study considered the synonym-structure associations for the substances that were successfully standardized through the PubChem structure stand- ardization process [40]. This does not include substances with "auto-generated" structures. Because ...
-y change the "-y" at the end of adjectives to an "-ily" in order to create an adverb. the change is made to accommodate the awkward "-y" at the end of the adjective. for example, "ready" would become "readily." 4 consider the new adverb before using it consider the new ...
and death. People may relate to these topics more readily than the serious topics, but they will also probably not be as divided or passionate about them. A more lighthearted persuasive speech topic might be something like "small monitors," "mismatched shirts and shoes" or "the snooze button...
’” Safire, though, in a bit of forgiveness, noted that the general might have been influenced by combining abstruse with obscure, a word that shares overlap with abstruse because it can mean, among other things, “not readily understood or clearly expressed,” as in “obscure rock lyrics....
sounds within a word, and are pronounced in their traditional fashions. These are the opposite of welded sounds, with examples such as the word "fang." Here, the letter "F" represents a single consonant sound, as the "F" can be readily identified from the rest of the word's phonetic ...
A home word bound board game is provided which consists of game boards, game pieces, decks of game cards and game sheets. The object of the game is for each player to score with game pieces on the res
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for determining an abbreviation for a term. During operation, the system receives a candidate abbreviation for the term. If the term is a compound term comprised of a number of constituent terms, the system then determines if the candidate...
15. A computer system updating a synonym dictionary containing a set of synonym pairs, said computer system comprising: means for receiving data representing the mapping of a first element in a first schema to a second element in a second schema; means for inferring an additional synonym pair ...