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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    In legal terms, a guaranty is a binding assurance of the performance of a product or service, commonly a security for the fulfillment of an obligation (often on another's behalf), while a guarantee is a person who benefits from a guaranty (provided by a guarantor).

  3. Controlled vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the Library of Congress Subject Headings [6] (a subject heading system that uses a controlled vocabulary), preferred terms—subject headings in this case—have to be chosen to handle choices between variant spellings of the same word (American versus British), choice among scientific and popular terms (cockroach versus ...

  4. 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 ...

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  6. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...

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    Thank you for using Assist by AOL (the “Service”). Yahoo and AOL joined to become a unified digital and mobile media company known as Yahoo. BY ACCESSING AND USING THE SERVICE, YOU SIGNIFY BY ELECTRONIC MEANS YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS (the “Terms”). If you do not agree, you may not use the Service.

  8. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]

  9. What does the slang word 'mid' really mean? - AOL

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    According to Wright, "mid" is older than modern English. "It's been part of the language since before 1150 and means ‘occupying a central, medial, or intermediate position,' according to the ...