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Tutorial 14
Polysemy
The association of one word with two or more
Example: Fix (attach, arrange, get ready (food or drinks) ,repair, punish, set right (the hair). Table (a piece of furniture, dining table, facts/ numbers, maths, (multiplication / addition tables) Star (those shiny things in the sky, an excellant actor/actress)
Synonymy
Words that are similar or have a related meaning to
another word. Some synonyms can inject a different meaning than the one intended.(connotation) Example: gloomy To express feeling like down, upset. But gloomy also can give different view from connotative meaning.
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Intelligent Happy Smart, brilliant Joyful , upbeat, content
True
Weak
Hyponymy
Word that represents different categories covered by
a superordinate. Example:
Category
Stationary
Furniture
Kitchen utensil
Antonymy
Antonymy is the sense relation that exists between
Gradable antonyms
Do not represent an either-or relation but rather a more-less relation operate on a continuum:
Long - short love - hate rich poor (very) big, (very) small.
Such pairs often occur in (blow) hot and cold, binomial phrases with and: (search) high and low.
Complementary antonyms express an either/or relationship and these are 'absolute' opposites. if you are dead, you cannot also be alive.
You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Converse or relational antonyms Sometimes called relational borrow or lend, buy or sell, wife or h opposites. They all express usband. relationships between two (or more) people or things. Brian sold the car to Michael and Michael bought the car from Brian.