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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.
The term security blanket was popularized in the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, who gave such a blanket to his character Linus van Pelt. Linus called it his "security and happiness blanket", in Good Grief, More Peanuts printed in 1956. [23] However, the concept of a comfort blanket existed prior to Peanuts.
Another option could be to merge blanket term and umbrella term, but leave hyponymy separate as the technical, linguistic term for this. Linguist At Large 17:41, 20 November 2008 (UTC) I agree with this. Umbrella term and blanket term are basically the same thing. Hyponymy is different precisely because it is a technical term.
[1] [2] However, earlier usage of the term is possible as a borrowing of the Old French word blanket for the type of fabric, attested as early as 1278 and deriving from the adjective blanc, meaning "white". [3] William Shakespeare is recognised as the first person to use the verb blanket, meaning to 'cover with
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A massive winter storm moving across the United States will not keep the U.S. Congress from meeting on Monday to formally certify Republican Donald Trump's election as ...
The use of the term 'non-heterosexual' to refer to LGBTQ people as a blanket term could perpetuate heteronormativity. Jonathan Ned Katz argues that historically, the term was used to force people into one of two distinct identities; the "normalization of a sex that was 'hetero' proclaimed a new heterosexual separatism — an erotic apartheid ...
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Iguanas begin to get sluggish or lethargic once the temperature drops below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.