When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of English palindromic phrases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English...

    A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language , found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phrases.

  3. List of mottos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mottos

    Amsterdam Zoo: Natura Artis Magistra (Nature is the teacher of art); International Expositions: Semper Verum (Always true); Monarchist League of Canada: Fidelitate Coniuncti (United by fealty)

  4. Sentence word - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_word

    Each use of the word 'milk' in the examples above could have no use of intonation, or a random use of intonation, and so meaning is reliant on gesture. Anne Carter observed, however, that in the early stages of word acquisition children use gestures primarily to communicate, with words merely serving to intensify the message. [12]

  5. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example...

    By replacing "na hoře" by "nahoře", one obtains 5 more meanings. If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [38] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels.

  6. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative...

    Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation. Figurative (or non-literal ) language is the usage of words in a way that deviates from referencing just their conventionally accepted definitions [ 1 ] [ 2 ] - in order to convey a more complex ...

  7. Po (lateral thinking) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_(lateral_thinking)

    The term po was first created by Edward de Bono as part of a lateral thinking technique to suggest forward movement, that is, making a statement and seeing where it leads to. It is an extraction from words such as hypothesis, suppose, possible and poetry, all of which indicate forward movement and contain the syllable "po." Po can be taken to ...

  8. Errors in early word use - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors_in_early_word_use

    Other theories suggest that errors in early word use are the result of an inability on the part of the child to retrieve the correct word. Although the child might have accurately comprehended the word at one time, they are unable to actively retrieve the word or its meaning from their rapidly growing vocabulary.

  9. Feedforward (behavioral and cognitive science) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedforward_(behavioral...

    Feedforward, Behavior and Cognitive Science is a method of teaching and learning that illustrates or indicates a desired future behavior or path to a goal. [1] Feedforward provides information, images, etc. exclusively about what one could do right in the future, often in contrast to what one has done in the past.