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  2. List of words with the suffix -ology - Wikipedia

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    A list of people who have died during a specific period. The study of death or the dead. A notice of death; an obituary. nematology: The scientific study of nematodes. neoichnology: The study of footprints and traces of extant animals. neology: The study or art of creating new words or neologizing. The act of introducing a new word into a language.

  3. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in "inconvenienced") and other multiword expressions such as the interjection "get out!", where the word "out" does not have an individual meaning. [6]

  4. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of house types. Houses can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between free-standing or single-family detached homes and various types of attached or multi-family residential dwellings. Both may vary greatly in scale and the amount of accommodation provided.

  5. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    Back-formation is either the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed affixes, or a neologism formed by such a process. Back-formations are shortened words created from longer words, thus back-formations may be viewed as a sub-type of clipping .

  6. Building - Wikipedia

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    A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, [1] such as a house or factory. [1] Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and ...

  7. Sona (constructed language) - Wikipedia

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    Every word in Sona can be decomposed into radicals and, conversely, new words can be constructed by combining them in various ways. Radicals are meant to represent symbolic ideas or groups of ideas, and this simplifies the language by connecting words to one another based on universal concepts.

  8. Castle - Wikipedia

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    Switzerland is an extreme case of there being no state control over who built castles, and as a result there were 4,000 in the country. [73] There are very few castles dated with certainty from the mid-9th century. Converted into a donjon around 950, Château de Doué-la-Fontaine in France is the oldest standing castle in Europe. [74]

  9. Wikipedia : Don't demolish the house while it's still being built

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    Wikipedia is not published all at once. It evolves and grows. Every article is still being written, albeit slowly. Rome cannot be built in one day; neither can an article be perfect first time around. A building, like an article, takes time to build. Imagine if this building were constantly ripped apart at the seams during construction!