hyponym

NOUN
  1. a word that is more specific than a given word
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How To Use hyponym In A Sentence

  • More importantly, elf schot is clearly a hyponym of maladye - that is, its meaning must fall within the semantic range of maladye - so cannot denote a projectile.
  • Thus we see that lexical elements can surface different hyponymies depending on the inclusion chain that is followed.
  • All we need to do is alter our formula for hyponymy slightly and we come up with another formula for synonymy.
  • I think it would also be very useful to incorporate a way to search based on hyper- and hyponyms (more and less generic versions of words).
  • It is also a kind of collectivism less crouched than communism, characterized by hyponymy of the individual to the community. EzineArticles
  • Automatic Thesaurus Generation  Hearst (1992) presents an algorithm that can automatically generate a thesaurus or dictionary:  Learning hyponym, meronym relations and more. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • He rubs his hands over the difference between hypernym and hyponym, but also tells anecdotes about family members. Times, Sunday Times
  • The choice is yours: you can either continue to treat hyponymy and meronymy as being generally connected to synonymy, or follow the newer configuration in the third edition of the book.
  • In this paper we present a more theoretical insight into the nature of hyponymy and troponymy basing on Fellbaum and Apresjan, among others.
  • Psycholinguistic research has shown that the receiver naturally associates a word with its opposite, e.g. "man - woman," a hyponym, i.e. a word semantically subordinate, e.g. "fruit - apple" or a synonym. Undefined
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