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  2. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  3. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    "Pop" is English slang for "pawn." A 19th-century working man might tell his family to take his clothes to the pawn shop to pay for his funeral, with his clogs among the most valuable items. Promoted to Glory: Death of a Salvationist: Formal Salvation Army terminology. Pull the plug [2] To kill, or allow to die Euphemism

  4. 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).

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

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    the English language (adj.) the foot-pound-second system of units [citation needed] (UK: Imperial) English (n.) spin placed on a ball in cue sports (UK: side) engineer: a technician or a person who mends and operates machinery one employed to design, build or repair equipment practitioner of engineering

  6. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Microbicide – an agent used to kill or reduce the infectiousness of microorganisms. Miticide – a chemical to kill mites. Nemacide (also nematicide, nematocide) – a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes. Parasiticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy parasites. Pediculicide – an agent that kills head lice.

  7. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

  8. Kill stealing - Wikipedia

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    Kill stealing is predominantly done to gain the rewards from a kill. Griefers kill steal as only one of their tactics in annoying other players. [ 3 ] However, there are side-reasons towards kill stealing, with a few being unintentional, i.e. killing an enemy with low player HP, and then killing another enemy - in a panic - which is being dealt ...

  9. Steal - Wikipedia

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    Steal (basketball), a situation when a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball from an offensive player; Steal (curling), score/win by a team that did not throw the last rock; Steal, a 2002 action film; Steal, a Central Television game show; Steal (poker), a type of a bluff; The Steal, the British melodic hardcore punk band