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  2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  3. Homophone - Wikipedia

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    raze – a verb meaning "to demolish, level to the ground" or "to scrape as if with a razor" rase – an archaic verb meaning "to erase" rehs – the plural of reh, a mixture of sodium salts found as an efflorescence in India; res – the plural of re, a name for one step of the musical scale; obsolete legal term for "the matter" or "incident"

  4. Ground truth - Wikipedia

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    "Ground truth" may be seen as a conceptual term relative to the knowledge of the truth concerning a specific question. It is the ideal expected result. [2] This is used in statistical models to prove or disprove research hypotheses. The term "ground truthing" refers to the process of gathering the proper objective (provable

  5. Semantic bootstrapping - Wikipedia

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    In the experiment, locative verbs were used. Locative verbs link the relationship between a moving object and a location. [7] The moving object is known as the ‘Figure’ and the location is known as the ‘Ground’. For example, in the sentence “Peter poured coffee into the cup.” ‘Pour’ is the locative verb, ‘coffee’ is the ...

  6. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    Ground zero; Guerrilla tactics: attacking the enemy and the subsequent breaking off of contact and retreating; also referred to as "hit-and-run tactics". Hit-and-run; Hors de combat: a unit out of the fight, surrendered, wounded (when incapacitated), and so on. Infantry square, pike square, or schiltron; Infiltration; Intent

  7. Grist - Wikipedia

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    It can also mean grain that has been ground at a gristmill. Its etymology derives from the verb grind. Grist can be ground into meal or flour, depending on how coarsely it is ground. Maize made into grist is called grits when it is coarse, and corn meal when it is finely ground.

  8. Ground - Wikipedia

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    Ground (art), a base for the paint layers of a picture. Coffee grounds, ground up coffee beans; Ground tissue, one of the three types of tissue systems in a plant; Ground term, in symbolic logic, a term with no variables; Ground (unit), a unit of area used in India; Ground (Dzogchen), the primordial state in Dzogchen

  9. Derived stem - Wikipedia

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    Derived stems (also called D stems) are a morphological feature of verbs common to the Semitic languages.These derived verb stems are sometimes called augmentations or forms of the verb, or are identified by their Hebrew name binyan (literally meaning "construction"), and sometimes correspond with additional semantic meaning such as passive or causative action.