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  2. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym). A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym.

  3. Michelangelo phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The Michelangelo phenomenon describes a three step process where close partners shape each other so as to bring forth one another's ideal selves. [1] This ideal self is conceptualized as a collection of an individual's "dreams and aspirations" or "the constellation of skills, traits, and resources that an individual ideally wishes to acquire."

  4. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is sometimes called an ontology, a persistent claim that its creators do not make. The hypernym/hyponym relationships among the noun synsets can be interpreted as specialization relations among conceptual categories. In other words, WordNet can be interpreted and used as a lexical ontology in the computer science sense. However, such an ...

  5. Semantic change - Wikipedia

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    Auto-converse: Lexical expression of a relationship by the two extremes of the respective relationship, e.g., take in the dialectal use as "give". Ellipsis: Semantic change based on the contiguity of names, e.g., car "cart" → "automobile", due to the invention of the (motor) car.

  6. Domino effect - Wikipedia

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    A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar [1] or related events, a form of chain reaction. The term is an analogy to a falling row of dominoes . It typically refers to a linked sequence of events where the time between successive events is relatively short.

  7. Meronymy and holonymy - Wikipedia

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    Meronym and holonym refer to part and whole respectively, which is not to be confused with hypernym which refers to type. For example, a holonym of leaf might be tree (a leaf is a part of a tree), whereas a hypernym of oak tree might be tree (an oak tree is a type of tree).

  8. 'Fatal Attraction' series attempts to balance affair blame - AOL

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    A Paramount+ TV series debuting Sunday is based on the movie but attempts to make both Dan and Alex — played by Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan — accountable for their actions.

  9. has-a - Wikipedia

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    A good example of the has-a relationship is containers in the C++ STL. To summarize the relations, we have hypernym-hyponym (supertype-subtype) relations between types (classes) defining a taxonomic hierarchy, where for an inheritance relation: a hyponym (subtype, subclass) has a type-of (is-a) relationship with its hypernym (supertype ...