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  2. 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 ...

  3. Paper towel - Wikipedia

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    The growth in commercial use of paper towels can be attributed to the migration from folded towels (in public bathrooms, for example) to roll towel dispensers, which reduces the amount of paper towels used by each patron. [12] Within the forest products industry, paper towels are a major part of the "tissue market", second only to toilet paper ...

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

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    a piece of paper money (UK: note/banknote) billion (now rare) a million million (10 12) (modern UK and US: trillion) thousand million (10 9) (now standard in both UK and US) (traditional UK [citation needed]: milliard) (see also Long and short scales) bin (v.) to throw away. (bread bin) container for storing bread (US: breadbox)

  5. Word problem (mathematics education) - Wikipedia

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    Word problem from the Līlāvatī (12th century), with its English translation and solution. In science education, a word problem is a mathematical exercise (such as in a textbook, worksheet, or exam) where significant background information on the problem is presented in ordinary language rather than in mathematical notation.

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    tea towel a cloth which is used to dry dishes, cutlery, etc., after they have been washed. (US: dish towel) telerecording a recording of a live television broadcast made directly from a cathode-ray tube onto motion picture film. The equivalent US term is kinescope. telly (informal) television tenner ten pound note Territorial

  7. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published. [4] Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5]

  8. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...

  9. Word problem for groups - Wikipedia

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    Then the word problem in is solvable: given two words , in the generators of , write them as words in and compare them using the solution to the word problem in . It is easy to think that this demonstrates a uniform solution of the word problem for the class K {\displaystyle K} (say) of finitely generated groups that can be embedded in G ...