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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    kick-ass: to beat up or beat, e.g. "I am going to kick his ass" or, more positively, something that beat (did better than) everything else, e.g. "The opening band was kick-ass." (vulgar) someone acting inappropriately or offensively ("That guy was an ass!") athletics

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    to subsidise (pay for something in place of someone else – often used for any sort of informal loan) (in newspaper publishing) edit copy for length or house style (in full: sub-edit) subscription (UK: membership dues, as in an association or club) sub-lieutenant (Royal Navy rank) subaltern (British Army second lieutenant or lieutenant)

  4. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else Oxymoron : a combination of two contradictory terms Zeugma and Syllepsis : the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously

  5. Lists of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    Lists of English words; List of works with different titles in the United Kingdom and United States; Pseudo-anglicism; Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

  6. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    In the word "ambigram", the root ambi-means "both" and is a popular prefix in a world of dualities, such as day/night, left/right, birth/death, good/evil. [150] In Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams , [ 151 ] John Langdon mentions the yin and yang symbol as one of his major influences to create upside down words.

  7. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    (pronounced 'eighty six') colloquial, to abandon, reject, or kill something or someone; e.g., "Let's eighty-six the whole thing." Similar to "Deep Six", although unlikely to have been derived from nautical terms as is "Deep Six". "86ing" someone can also mean ordering them to leave, as a bartender or bouncer to a rowdy or intoxicated patron. [7 ...

  8. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    a product that has been rejected because there is something wrong with it / r ɪ ˈ dʒ ɛ k t / verb to refuse to accept, believe in, or agree with something resign / r ɪ ˈ z aɪ n / verb 1. to quit 2. to accept that something undesirable cannot be avoided / r iː ˈ s aɪ n / verb to sign again; re-sign: resume / r ɪ ˈ zj uː m / verb to ...

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...