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  2. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  3. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  4. Mohammad Zahid (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Mohammad Zahid (born 1977) is an Indian poet, translator and editor from Anantnag, Kashmir. [1] He is a recipient of Best Book Award from Academy of Art Culture & Languages, J&K for his maiden poetry collection, The Pheromone Trail.

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    The German verb ausleihen, the Dutch verb lenen, the Afrikaans verb leen, the Polish verb pożyczyć, the Russian verb одолжить (odolžítʹ), the Finnish verb lainata, and the Esperanto verb prunti can mean either "to lend" or "to borrow", with case, pronouns, and mention of persons making the sense clear.

  6. Cease and desist - Wikipedia

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    Receiving numerous cease and desist letters may be very costly for the recipient. Each claim in the letters must be evaluated, and it should be decided whether to respond to the letters, "whether or not to obtain an attorney's opinion letter, prepare for a lawsuit, and perhaps initiate [in case of letters regarding a potential patent infringement] a search for alternatives and the development ...

  7. Beneficence (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    The antonym of this term, maleficence, describes a practice that opposes the welfare of any research participant. According to the Belmont Report , researchers are required to follow two moral requirements in line with the principle of beneficence: do not harm and maximize possible benefits for research while minimizing any potential harm on ...

  8. Avraham Even-Shoshan - Wikipedia

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    Avraham Rozenshteyn was born in Minsk, in what was then the Russian Empire, on 25 December 1906.He attended the cheder run by his father, who later sent him to public school and yeshiva.

  9. William D. Lutz - Wikipedia

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    William D. Lutz (/ l ʌ t s /; born December 12, 1940) is an American linguist who specializes in the use of plain language and the avoidance of doublespeak (deceptive language).