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Homeslice – Person, often a sarcastic overture to civilians from a drill instructor; from the terms homie and homeboy. Homesteading – Remaining at one duty station for an extended tour or consecutive tours. Honcho or Head Honcho – Person in charge, from the Japanese word for "boss', "hanchō"; also a nickname for Okinawan taxi drivers.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
However, there are exceptions: weep, groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry, brush and rock (from French). Words taken directly from Latin and Ancient Greek are generally perceived as colder, more technical, and more medical or scientific – compare life (Old English) with biology ( classical compound ...
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, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The HomeSlice Group, is an American media and entertainment conglomerate based in the Black Hills of South Dakota. [1] The HomeSlice Group is the worldwide exclusive licensing agent of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally [ 1 ] and artist management company for Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers , [ 2 ] Judd Hoos , [ 3 ] and others. [ 4 ]
French OVNI (Objet Volant Non Identifié) calques English UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French ...
For example, the name of the Irish digital television service Saorview is a partial calque of that of the UK service "Freeview", translating the first half of the word from English to Irish but leaving the second half unchanged. Other examples include "liverwurst" (< German Leberwurst) [9] and "apple strudel" (< German Apfelstrudel). [10]